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Reference (shelfmark):: Shelley Coll
Title:: The International Brigades in Spain
Scope & Content:: A collection of Spain 1936-1939 Civil War mainly comprising covers used to and from the International Brigades.
Collection Area:: Philatelic Collections
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1936-1939
Extent:: 5 Volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1-4100
Title:: Sloane Manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Manuscripts collected by Sir Hans Sloane (d 1753). c 1100-c 1750. 4100 manuscripts
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Breton, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Modern, Greenlandic, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Latin, Low German, Malayalam, Official Aramaic, Polish, Portuguese, Romance languages, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Venetian
Date Range:: c 1000-c 1750
Extent:: 4153 items

Reference (shelfmark):: ST 393
Title:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society
Scope & Content:: The Transactions cover the following geographic regions: India, the Middle East (especially Arabia and the Persian Gulf), East Africa (including Zanzibar), and Japan. The subjects covered by the Transactions include the following: geography; meteorology; languages; travel and exploration; histo...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, French, German, Kanarese, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1836-1873
Extent:: 20 volumes (approximately 6245 pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe Ch 1-646
Title:: Stowe Charters
Scope & Content:: Charters collected by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d 1839) at Stowe House, Bucks. c 1000-c 1800. 646 charters.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, French, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1000-c 1800
Extent:: 646 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe Ms 1-1085
Title:: Stowe Manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Manuscripts collected by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d 1839) at Stowe House, Bucks. c 1000-c 1800. 1085 manuscripts
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Dutch, English, English, Old, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Modern, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Scots, Spanish, and Welsh
Date Range:: c 1000-c 1800
Extent:: 1085 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Teseuteu2
Title:: 史記
Scope & Content:: 司馬遷，生於漢景帝、漢武帝年間，其父司馬談是太史令，所以司馬遷在十歲時已能閱讀誦習古文《尚書》、《左傳》、《國語》等書。司馬遷在早年間受學於孔安國、董仲舒等大儒，並暢遊各地，採集傳聞。十九歲時，他從長安出發，足跡遍及江淮和中原地區，並對所到之處的風俗進行考察，採集傳說。早期遷仕為郎中，奉使西征巴蜀以南，略邛、莋、昆明，還報命。」二十五歲時，以使者監軍[2]的身份，出使西南夷，擔負起在西南設郡的任務。足跡遍及「邛、莋、昆明」等地。漢武帝元封元年（前110年）司馬談去世，三年之後，司馬遷承襲父職，任太史令，同時也繼承父親遺志（司馬談臨終曾對司馬遷說：「余死，汝必為太史；為太史，無忘吾所欲論著...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 110 BC
Extent:: 1 vol.

Reference (shelfmark):: TRIG
Title:: War Office/Ministry of Defence Trigonometrical/Geodetic Library Material
Scope & Content:: Survey materials and their derivatives used in the compilation and revision of maps to support the geographical requirements of the United Kingdom government and armed forces. The library primarily comprises survey control items including surveyors' field observations, computations, grid and gra...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1880-2nd half of 20th century
Extent:: 77 boxes comprising survey observation books, maps, foolscap folios and technical reports

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