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Total number of records: 257

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	244
Textiles	10
Archives	3

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	38
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society	21
Herbert Read Collection	11
International Textile Collection	10
English Literature	8
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	6
Leeds Russian Archive	5
Ripon Cathedral	4
Medical Collections	3
Cookery Collection	3

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
natural history	12
egyptian language	9
mummies	8
scientists	5
mamelukes	5
science	5
classical antiquities	5
language and languages	5
auction catalogs	4
church history	4

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Egypt	257
Ethiopia	34
Nile River	31
Palestine	15
Middle East	14
Greece	11
Africa, East	10
Nubia	10
Cairo	6
Great Britain	5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Bruce, James (1730-1794)	30
Castera, Jean-Henri (1749-1838)	19
Paterson, William (1755-1810)	17
Osburn, William (1793-1875)	8
George, E. S	7
George, E S	7
Teale, Thomas Pridgin (1801?-1867)	7
Hey, Richard	7
Hey, Richard (1745-1835)	7
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society	7

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From 1200	7
From 1600	4
From 1700	43
From 1800	129
From 1900	69
From 2000	5

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Up to 1399	5
Up to 1499	1
Up to 1599	1
Up to 1699	4
Up to 1799	43
Up to 1899	128
Up to 1999	66
Up to latest	9

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Papers relating to nursing consultancy work with the Arab Contractors Medical Centre, Cairo, Egypt

1979-1987

The Arab Contractors Medical Centre (ACMC) was set up in 1981 by the Arab Contractors Company (Osman Ahmed Osman & Co). Allied Medical Group Ltd (AMG) acted as healthcare development advisors for the ...

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Papers relating to visits to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and recruitment drives

1979-1985

Contains: - a recruitment information document for Allied Medical Group Ltd (AMG), for hospitals in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia; - a copy of the AMG document 'Hospital Contracts in th...

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The Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs : being a companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian collections

Wilkinson, Sir J Gardiner (1797-1875); Birch, Samuel (1813-1885); Crystal Palace Company (Sydenham, London, England)

1857

Includes bibliographical references.

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The Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs : being a companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian collections

Wilkinson, Sir J Gardiner (1797-1875); Birch, Samuel (1813-1885); Crystal Palace Company (Sydenham, London, England)

1857

Includes bibliographical references.

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A second series of the manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians, including their religion, agriculture, &c. derived from a comparison of the paintings, sculptures, and monuments still existing, with the accounts of ancient authors

Wilkinson, Sir J Gardiner (1797-1875)

1841

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Memoire dans lequel on prouve, que les Chinois sont une colonie egyptienne, lû dans l'assembée publique de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres, le 14. Novembre 1758. Avec un précis du Mémoire de M. l'Abbé Barthelemy, sur les lettres phéniciennes; lû dans l'Assemblée publique de la même Académie le 12. Avril 1758

Guignes, Joseph (1721-1800); Barthélemy, J.-J (1716-1795)

1760

Plates consist of samples of Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets.

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Literary antiquities of Greece : as developed in an attempt to ascertain principles for a new analysis of the Greek tongue and to exhibit those principles as applied to the elucidation of many passages in the ancient history of that country : to which are added, observations concerning the origin of several of the literal characters in use among the Greeks

Allwood, Philip

1799

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Pauli Ernesti Iablonski... Pantheon Aegyptiorum : sive, De diis eorum commentarius, cum prolegomenis de religione et theologia Aegyptiorum (v.1)

Jablonski, Paul Ernst (1693-1757)

1750-52

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Pauli Ernesti Iablonski... Pantheon Aegyptiorum : sive, De diis eorum commentarius, cum prolegomenis de religione et theologia Aegyptiorum (v.2)

Jablonski, Paul Ernst (1693-1757)

1750-52

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Pauli Ernesti Iablonski... Pantheon Aegyptiorum : sive, De diis eorum commentarius, cum prolegomenis de religione et theologia Aegyptiorum (v.3)

Jablonski, Paul Ernst (1693-1757)

1750-52

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Hermanni Witsii Ægyptiaca, et Dekaphylon : sive, de Ægyptiacorum sacrorum cum Hebraicis collatione libri tres; et de decem tribubus Israelis liber singularis. Accessit Diatribe de legione fulminatrice Christianorum, sub imperatore Marco Aurelio Antonino

Wits, Herman (1636-1708)

1683

"Corrigenda & addenda": p. 463-464. Head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed marginalia. Printer's device on t.p.; t.p. in red and black. First edition. Includes bibliographical references and...

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Griechisch-ägyptischer Offenbarungszauber. Mit einer eingehenden Darstellung des griechisch-synkretistischen Daemonenglaubens und der Voraussetzungen und Mittel des Zaubers überhaupt und der magischen Divination im besonderen

Hopfner, Theodor (1886-)

1921

Bibliography: v. 1, p. 249-250.

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