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A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed : consisting of five thousand volumes, including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., the Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D. and about five hundred volumes bequeathed, presented, or purchased at various times (v.1)

Ayscough, Samuel (1745-1804); Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1753); Birch, Thomas (1705-1766); British Museum. Department of Manuscripts

1782

"Commenced in April 1780 and published in 1782 by leave of the Trustees, but as a private venture of the compiler." -- Dict. nat. biog.

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A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed : consisting of five thousand volumes, including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., the Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D. and about five hundred volumes bequeathed, presented, or purchased at various times (v.2)

Ayscough, Samuel (1745-1804); Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1753); Birch, Thomas (1705-1766); British Museum. Department of Manuscripts

1782

"Commenced in April 1780 and published in 1782 by leave of the Trustees, but as a private venture of the compiler." -- Dict. nat. biog.

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A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books collected by Thomas Brooke, F.S.A. and preserved at Armitage Bridge House, near Huddersfield (v.1)

Brooke, Sir Thomas (1830-1908); Ellis, Gilbert Ifold; Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Library

1891

Compiled by G.I. Ellis. cf. Pres. "One hundred copies... have been printed for private circulation and six on large paper."

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Ducatus Leodiensis, or, The topography of the ancient and populous town and parish of Leedes, and parts adjacent in the West-Riding of the County of York. With the pedegrees of many of the nobility and gentry, and other matters relating to those parts; extracted from records, original evidences, and manuscripts

Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725); Plot, Robert (1640-1696); Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725)

1715

The duplicated page numbers (5-6 on B1; 109-114 on Ffp2s Gg1) are in square brackets. The catalogue has separate title-page (following p.268): Musæum Thoresbyanum: or, A catalogue... London: Printe...

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Ducatus Leodiensis, or, The topography of the ancient and populous town and parish of Leedes, and parts adjacent in the West-Riding of the County of York. With the pedegrees of many of the nobility and gentry, and other matters relating to those parts; extracted from records, original evidences, and manuscripts

Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725); Plot, Robert (1640-1696); Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725)

1715

The catalogue has separate title-page (following p.268): Musæum Thoresbyanum: or, A catalogue... London: Printed for Maurice Atkins, 1713.

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