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Total number of records: 79

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Books and printed items73
Coins4
Textiles2

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Brotherton Collection25
Coin Collection4
Liddle Collection2
Leeds Russian Archive2
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society2
International Textile Collection2
Ripon Cathedral1
English Literature1
Herbert Read Collection1

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geography10
biography5
history5
voyages and travels5
natural history2
ethnology2
physical geography2
slave-trade2
travel2
surveys1

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Africa79
Asia9
America9
South Africa5
Europe3
Latin America2
Iran2
Middle East2
Uganda2
Gambia River2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Moreri, Louis (1643-1680)5
Bayle, Pierre, 1647-17064
Cory, Sir George (1862-1935)4
British and Foreign Bible Society3
Hofland, Mrs (1770-1844)3
Hutton, Catherine (1756-1846)3
Owen, John (1766-1822)3
Lambert, Claude Francois (1705-1765)2
Dunn, John2
Ledyard, John2

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Considerations on the present peace, as far as it is relative to the colonies, and the African trade

MDCCLXIII [1763]

Includes table of statistics. Errata: p. 68. Anonymous.

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Die Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen, oder, Allgemeine, vergleichende Geographie : als sichere Grundlage des Studiums und Unterrichts in physikalischen und historischen Wissenschaften (v.1)

Ritter, Carl (1779-1859)

1817-1818

Consists of the 1.-3. Buch of the 12 planned.--v. 1, p. [v]. No more published of this edition. Errata: v. 2, p. 934-939. Includes bibliographical footnotes.

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Die Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen, oder, Allgemeine, vergleichende Geographie : als sichere Grundlage des Studiums und Unterrichts in physikalischen und historischen Wissenschaften (v.2)

Ritter, Carl (1779-1859)

1817-1818

Consists of the 1.-3. Buch of the 12 planned.--v. 1, p. [v]. No more published of this edition. Errata: v. 2, p. 934-939. Includes bibliographical footnotes.

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The geographical magazine; or, New system of geography : With beautiful and correct views, maps, and globes (v.2)

Mavor, William Fordyce (1758-1837)

MDCCXCIV. [i.e. 1793-1794]

Martyn is the pseudonym of William Fordyce Mavor (cf. DNB). Vol. 2 printed in 1793. Maps by J. Bayly, geographer. Title pages in red and black. v. 1. Asia. Africa -- v. 2. Europe. America.

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The scramble for Africa

Chamberlain, Muriel E

1974

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Anaphe silk combings
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Anaphe silk combings

late 19th-mid 20th Century

Card box with glass cover, containing samples of Anaphe wild silk combings. Anaphe is raw silk. This genus of silkworm, which produces this variety of silk, is found especially in Uganda and other par...

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Masaʻot shel Rabi Benyamīn = Itinerarium D. Beniaminis

Benjamin of Tudela; L'Empereur, Constantijn (1591-1648)

1633

Latin translation based on Friburg edition of 1583. Hebrew and Latin texts in parallel columns. Printer's mark: le Solitaire; headpiece; initials.

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