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Total number of records: 395

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items382
Archives10
Art items3

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection53
Cookery Collection30
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society12
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection9
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society7
English Literature5
Quaker Collection4
Ripon Cathedral3
Leeds Russian Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
agriculture395
gardening12
home economics10
hunting9
livestock8
industrial arts8
land tenure7
painting7
recipes7
botany6

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain17
England11
France8
Ireland5
Devon (England)4
North Riding of Yorkshire (England)4
Yorkshire (England)3
Norfolk (England)2
Europe2
Gloucestershire (England)2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Young, Arthur (1741-1820)70
Great Britain. Board of Agriculture54
Great Britain52
Marshall, William (1745-1818)29
Hale, Thomas Esq25
Dupuy Demportes, Jean Baptiste (1770)24
Dupuy Demportes, Jean Baptiste24
Delaleuze18
Billecocq, J B L J (1765-1829)18
Lamarre18

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 150013
From 160022
From 1700207
From 1800153

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 159913
Up to 169919
Up to 1799203
Up to 1899160

Archive Collection

Thomas Askren farm Archive

Askren, Thomas

1835-1871

A collection of diaries and account books, dating from 1835 to 1871.

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Oil sketches

c. 1830

Undated oil sketches on woodpulp board and canvas by Edward Petre Novello. They are likely to have been painted in around 1830, following his studies at the Royal Academy of Arts and before his early ...

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Papers relating to (Joseph) Alfred Novello's investment in the Cavour Canal

1867-1893

Papers relating to (Joseph) Alfred Novello's investment in the Cavour Canal through the Italian Irrigation Company, including documents from London and Westminster Bank, cheques and receipts and legal...

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Field Book 1779

1779?

Contains accounts of receipts and payments with indication of balance of profit or loss, field by field, in respect of livestock, oats, and various other payments, with final balance in profit

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Commonplace book belonging to Thomas Eskricke

Eskricke, Thomas

c.1710-c.1748

Contains mainly veterinary preparations, but also notes on farming, as follows: (1) ff.1-15, veterinary preparations, ca.1710-ca.1748; (2) ff.24-19 (inverted), mathematical examples; (3) f.18v, sundry...

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Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823

Ricardo, David (1772-1823); Bonar, James (1852-1941); Malthus, T R (1766-1834)

1887

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Essays on the spirit of legislation : in the encouragement of agriculture, population, manufactures, and commerce. Tr. from the original French, which gained the premiums offered by the society of Berne, in Switzerland, for the best compositions on this subject

Bertrand, Jean (1708-1777); Carrard, Benjamin Samuel Georges (1740-); Seigneux de Correvon, Gabriel (1776)

1772

The first essay is by Jean Bertrand, the second by Benjamin Carrard, and the third by Gabriel Seigneux de Correvon.

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Fields, factories, and workshops

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich kn︠i︡azʹ (1842-1921)

1899

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Scriptores rei rusticae veteres latini Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius. Quibus nunc accedit Vegetius De mulo-medicina et Gargilii Martialis fragmentum. Cum editionibus prope omnibus et mss. pluribus collati. Adjectae notae virorum clariss. integrae tum editae tum ineditae et lexicon rei rusticae (v.1)

Marcus Porcius Cato; Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus; Palladius Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus; Varro, Marcus Terentius; Gesner, Johann Matthias (1691-1761); Gargilius Martialis, Quintus; Vegetius Renatus, Publius

1735

Title of vol.2 varies.

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