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Total number of records: 171

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Books and printed items169
Archives2

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Brotherton Collection171
English Literature23
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections20
Herbert Read Collection10
Incunabula2

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natural history171
mineralogy38
geology7
indians of south america5
botany5
floras4
zoology4
common fallacies4
botanical illustration4
birds4

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Amazon River Valley4
South America4
Liberia4
Middle East3
Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)2
Orient2
New Forest, England2
England2
Brazil2
Wiltshire (England)2

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Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte De (1707-1788)47
Gosse, Philip Henry (1810-1888)10
Smellie, William9
Smellie, William (1740-1795)9
William Henry Hudson8
Hudson, W H (1841-1922)8
Evens, George Bramwell (1885-1943)8
White, Gilbert (1720-1793)5
Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)4
Stapf, Otto (1857-1938)4

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Archive Collection

James Dalton, correspondence

Dalton, James

c.1795-1824

Comprises 35 letters from James Dalton to James Sowerby, the naturalist; also, letters from W. Brunton, John Larcom, Peter Murray, and Robert Teesdale to Sowerby, and one letter from J. Wood to Dr Smi...

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Edmund Gosse Archive

Gosse family

c.1823-1954

The Gosse collection includes material from five generations of the Gosse family, but is largely the archive of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), the writer and literary critic. The collection hol...

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Ilkley, ancient & modern

Collyer, Robert (1823-1912); Turner, J Horsfall (1845-1915)

1885

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The aquarium : an unveiling of the wonders of the deep sea

Gosse, Philip Henry (1810-1888)

1854

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A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast

Gosse, Philip Henry (1810-1888)

1853

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Natural history

Gosse, Philip Henry (1810-1888); Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education

1849

'Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge'.

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Natural history

Gosse, Philip Henry (1810-1888); Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education

1851

'Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge'.

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Natural history

Gosse, Philip Henry (1810-1888); Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education

1854

'Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge'.

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The romance of natural history

Gosse, Philip Henry (1810-1888)

1861

Includes bibliographic references and index.

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The romance of natural history

Gosse, Philip Henry (1810-1888)

1860

Includes bibliographic references and index.

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