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Archive Print Item: YAS 0185

An alphabetical index of all the towns, villages, hamlets, &c : in the county of York, and county of the City of York...[etc.]

1792

"A second edition of Nomina Villarum Eboracensium, with many improvements."-title-page.

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Archive Print Item: YAS 0452

The general gazetteer: or, Compendious geographical dictionary : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world; with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country; the trade, manufactures and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished. Including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages in Great Britain and Ireland. Illustrated by maps

Brookes, R (fl. 1721-1763); Rivington, Francis (1745-1822); Johnson, Joseph (1738-1809); Baldwin, R (1737-1810); Law, B (1798)

1797

Publisher's advertisements on final pages.

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Archive Print Item: YAS 0947

A commentary on Antoninus his itinerary : or, Journies of the Romane Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain : wherein the first foundation of our cities, lawes, and government, according to the Roman policy, are clearly discovered; whence all succeeding ages have drawn their originall. The ancient names of their garrisons within the island are restored to the modern, with their site, and true distances; their military waies, and wall; with many antiquities, medalls, inscriptions, and urnes, are recovered from the ruine of time. A work very usefull for all historians, antiquaries, philologists, and more particularly for the student of the laws

Burton, William (1609-1657); Hollar, Wenceslaus (1607-1677); Roycroft, Thomas (1677); Twyford, Henry

1658

Title page in red and black. Frontis. portrait of the author signed: W. Hollar fec. Double map preceding p.1 also by the same artist. Includes index.

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Archive Print Item: YAS 0997

Place-names of south-west Yorkshire : that is, of so much of the West Riding as lies south of the Aire from Keighley onwards

Goodall, Armitage

1914

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Archive Print Item: YAS 1008

An universal etymological English dictionary : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue, either ancient or modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Modern French, Teutonic, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, each in their proper characters : and also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words derived from any of the aforesaid languages; and terms of art relating to anatomy, botany, physick, pharmacy, surgery, chymistry, philosophy, divinity, mathematicks, grammar, logick, rhetorick, musick, heraldry, maritime affairs, military discipline, horsemanship, hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing, gardening, husbandry, handicrafts, confectionary, carving, cookery, &c. : together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases us’d in our ancient statutes, charters, writs, old records, and processes at law ; and the etymology and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great Britain : also the dialects of our different counties. Containing many thousand words more than either Harris, Philips, Kersey, or any English Dictionary before extant. To which is added a collection of our most common proverbs, with their explication and illustration. The whole work compil’d and methodically digested, as well for the entertainment of the curious, as the information of the ignorant, and for the benefit of young students, artificers, tradesmen and foreigners, who are desirous thorowly to understand what they speak, read, or write

Bailey, N (1742)

MDCXXVIII [1728]

Indexed in: ESTC,

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Archive Print Item: YAS 1666

The survey of the county of York, taken by John de Kirkby, commonly called Kirkby's inquest : Also Inquisitions of the knights' fees, the Nomina villarum for Yorkshire, and an appendix of illustrative documents

Kirkby, John Bishop of Ely (1290); Skaife, Robert H; Great Britain. Exchequer; Surtees Society

1867

Edited by R.H. Skaife. The text of Kirkby's inquest is derived mostly from a copy belonging to the dean and chapter of York; that of the Nomina villarum (previously printed under the editorial care ...

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