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Total number of records: 322

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Books and printed items252
Archives69
Art items1

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Brotherton Collection145
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society72
Medieval Manuscripts67
Herbert Read Collection9
English Literature6
Ripon Cathedral5
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection3
Leeds Russian Archive3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

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birds322
insects24
fruits21
virgin mary15
animals14
fabulous animals10
natural history7
christ7
saints7
angels7

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Iceland5
Southwest, New1
United States1
Hornsea Mere (England)1
Genoa, Italy1
Canary Islands1
Cape Cod (Mass.)1
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bent, Arthur Cleveland (1866-1954)17
Gould, John (1804-1881)16
William Henry Hudson14
Hudson, W H (1841-1922)14
Friedmann, Herbert (1900-1987)13
Gray, George Robert (1808-1872)12
British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology11
Gray, George Robert11
United States National Museum11
Latham, John (1740-1837)10

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Oil sketches

c. 1830

Undated oil sketches on woodpulp board and canvas by Edward Petre Novello. They are likely to have been painted in around 1830, following his studies at the Royal Academy of Arts and before his early ...

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The water-colour drawings of Thomas Bewick

Thomson, David Croal (1855-1930); Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828)

1930

"Three hundred and twenty-five copies of this book, numbered 1 to 325, and two hundred copies on hand-made paper, numbered 326 to 525, have been printed".

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The water-colour drawings of Thomas Bewick

Thomson, David Croal (1855-1930); Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828)

1930

"Three hundred and twenty-five copies of this book, numbered 1 to 325, and two hundred copies on hand-made paper, numbered 326 to 525, have been printed".

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The water-colour drawings of Thomas Bewick (plates)

Thomson, David Croal (1855-1930); Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828)

1930

"Three hundred and twenty-five copies of this book, numbered 1 to 325, and two hundred copies on hand-made paper, numbered 326 to 525, have been printed".

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The domestic habits of birds

Rennie, James (1787-1867)

1846

First appeared in The library of Entertaining Knowledge.

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The architecture of birds

Rennie, James (1787-1867); Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

1831

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The faculties of birds

Rennie, James (1787-1867)

1835

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Die Vögel Islands

Timmermann, Günter

1938-49

Vol. 3 has imprint: Reykjavík, H.F. Leiftur. Vol. 2: Gedruckt mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (Notgemeinschaft der deutschen Wissenschaft).

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Pti︠t︡sy Belorussii

Fed︠i︡ushin, Anatoliĭ Vladimirovich; Dolbik, M S

1967

On leaf preceding t.p.: Akademi︠i︡a nauk Belorusskoĭ SSR. Otdel zoologii i parazitologii.

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British birds : on lake, river and stream

Barclay-Smith, Phyllis; Gould, John (1804-1881)

1939

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Garden birds

Barclay-Smith, Phyllis

1945

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Mountain birds

Coombes, Robert A H; Lodge, George Edward (1860-1954)

1952

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