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Total number of records: 182

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	175
Textiles	7

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	22
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society	19
International Textile Collection	7
English Literature	5
Ripon Cathedral	3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
natural history	12
egyptian language	9
mummies	7
science	5
language and languages	5
scientists	5
mamelukes	4
church history	4
costume	3
voyages, imaginary	3

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Egypt	182
Ethiopia	34
Nile River	30
Palestine	13
Middle East	12
Africa, East	10
Nubia	10
Meroe (Extinct City)	5
Greece	5
Fazogli (Sudan : District)	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
Jablonski, Paul Ernst (1693-1757)	7
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society	7
Teale, Thomas Pridgin	7
Hey, Richard (1745-1835)	7
Hey, Richard	7
George, E. S	7

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1200	7
From 1600	4
From 1700	43
From 1800	128

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1399	5
Up to 1499	1
Up to 1599	1
Up to 1699	4
Up to 1799	43
Up to 1899	128

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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

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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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