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Total number of records: 22

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Books and printed items16
Archives6

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Brotherton Collection11
English Literature4
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
Herbert Read Collection1
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Leeds Russian Archive1

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voyages and travels22
letters3
geography2
autobiography1
biography1
british1
diaries1
famines1
gardening1
hunting1

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Africa1
Amazon River Valley1
America1
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Iran1
Iraq1
Middle East1
Soviet Union1

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Astell, Mary (1668-1731)5
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762)5
Baerlein, Henry (1875-1960)2
Bates, Henry Walter (1825-1892)1
Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-18921
Bell, Gertrude Lowthian (1868-1926)1
Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-19261
Bell, Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe (1851-1930)1
Boscawen (Ship)1
Braund, Benjamin1

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The letters of Gertrude Bell (vol.2)

Bell, Gertrude Lowthian (1868-1926); Bell, Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe (1851-1930)

1939

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Sir Victor Brooke, sportsman & naturalist; a memoir of his life and extracts from his letters and journals

Brooke, Sir Victor Alexander (1843-1890); Stephen, Sir Leslie (1832-1904)

1894

Includes index.

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Nine letters from Joseph William Dunning to his father, Joseph Dunning, solicitor of Leeds, describing his tour in Scandinavia, 1856

Dunning, Joseph William (1834-1897)

1856

Details of the sequence of letters: (1) Hull, 13 June 1856. 4 ff.; (2) Christiania [Oslo], 17 June 1856. 4 ff.; (3) Trondheim, 27 June 1856. 12 ff.; (4) on board 'Prinz Gustav', 2 July 1856 [continued...

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A memoir of John William Wade, son of John Wade, wool merchant of Leeds, by his mother, Anna, together with transcripts of letters written by him to his parents during his tour through Germany and Austria in 1860

Wade, Anna

c.1875-1900

Includes two bound copies and one typescript copy of the memoir of John William Wade. Bound copy 1, memoir pp. 1-53, letters, pp. 55-123, one autograph letter, mounted, p. 125 and bound copy 2, memoi...

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Travels without a passport : second series

Baerlein, Henry (1875-1960)

1942

"First published... in 1942."

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Travels without a passport

Baerlein, Henry (1875-1960)

1941

"First published... in 1941."

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