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Total number of records: 56

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Textiles42
Books and printed items14

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International Textile Collection42
Brotherton Collection2
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1

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voyages and travels3
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adventure stories1
tatars1
ship captains1
ethnology1
geography1

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Asia56
Kashmir42
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India2
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Russia (Federation)1
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Europe1

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Hellwald, Friedrich Von3
Keane, A H (1833-1912)3
Labaume, A2
Langles, Louis Mathieu2
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine De Monet De2
Langles, Louis Mathieu (1763-1824)2
Ritter, Carl (1779-1859)2
Ritchie, Leitch (1800?-1865)2
Olivier, Guillaume Antoine (1756-1814)2
Olivier, Guillaume Antoine2

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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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Travellers P & O pocket book

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

[1888]

Cover-title: P & O pocket book. Title from engraved pictorial title-leaf. Section-title, p. [9-10]: Pocket Book. 1888, with company's emblematic logo; full company title and address on verso. Firs...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

1830-1850

The phala (large patterned border at each end of the shawl) has a total of eight densely patterned right-hand facing botehs, separated into compartments by a series of vertical lines between symmetric...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

early 19th Century

Twill woven Moon shawl composed of a central medalion and a quarter medallions at each corner. The whole field is twill/tapestry woven with small repeating geometric shapes in blue on a cream ground. ...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

early 19th Century

Twill woven shawl with an all over design composed of a central medalion and quarter medallions in each corner. A decorative border surrounds the whole design. The central field of the shawl has a re...

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shawl
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shawl

early 19th Century

Twill woven shawl with large patterned borders (palia) at each end comprising of seven elongated buta shapes on a cream ground, outlined in black with pale blue and pink geometric shapes and in filled...

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shawl
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shawl

mid 19th-late 19th Century

Twill/tapestry woven shawl with a deep patterned border (phala) across each end. Each border is composed of seven elongated buteh shapes, each woven with the same design but varying colour schemes. Th...

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shawl
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shawl

1870-1880

Large rectangular shawl, jacquard woven, in shades of red, green, orange, purple, pale and dark green, burgundy and cream woollen threads. The all over design is twill woven with two threads for every...

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shawl
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shawl

mid 19th Century

Long rectangular shawl jacquard woven in shades of red, green, lilac, pale blue, cream and burgundy. An all over design stylised floral design radiates toward a plain cream centre. Wool warp and cotto...

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shawl
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shawl

mid 19th Century

Large shawl, jacquard woven, in shades of green, red, pink, mid blue, black and old gold coloured wool. The all over design forms a mirror image on each side of the shawl if folded in half. The centre...

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Sobranīe puteshestvīĭ k tataram i drugim voztochnym narodam v xiii, xiv, i xv stol︠i︡etī︠i︡akh

︠I︡Azykov, Dmitriĭ Ivanovich (1773-1845); Ascelin, Niccolo; Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Archbishop of Antivari (1252)

1825

No more published. Cf. N.I. Berezin. Russkī︠i︡a knizhny︠i︡a r︠i︡edkosti, 1902, No. 570. Latin and Russian.

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