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Relief is shown with contours and hachures, also trig points, hydrology, roads and paths, and settlements. Features are numbered with reference to the accompanying name lists. Shows marked corrections. Pencilled calculations are visible in the margins. The sheets are numbered 1 to 9; sheet 2 was...
Various material created in connection with the British intervention in north west Russia. Coverage includes Murmansk, Archangel, Schunga, Lake Onega and part of the River Dvina.
'An Hindoo Temple at Deo in Bahar.' Plate 5 from Antiquities of India. Twelve [i.e. Twenty four] views [taken in the years 1790 and 1793] from the drawings of Thomas Daniell.. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840), and Daniell, William (1769-1837)
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An Hindoo Temple at Deo in Bahar. No. V. AN HINDO TEMPLE AT DEO, IN BAHAR. Deo is a small village in the neighbourhood of Gya, in the province of Bahar. The Temple is dedicated to Seeva, and reported to be of considerable antiquity, although from the nature of the material of which it is bui...
LETTERS TO SIR HENRY WOOD; 1942. Six typewritten letters from W. W. Thompson and one from Dorothy Wood, listing the total paying audiences for the 1942 season of Promenade concerts. With a collection of thirty-nine printed programmes for Promenade and other concerts conducted by Wood, annotated by the conductor with audience numbers, takings and other information; 1898, 1911, 1913, 1934-44. Typewritten lists of nightly attendances for the 1941 season are inserted in the programme for that se...
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includes: ff. 1-6 Sir Henry Joseph Wood, CH; conductor: W. W. Thompson, of the BBC: Letters to Sir Henry Joseph Wood from W. W. Thompson: 1942: Typewritten, signed.f. 7 Sir Henry Joseph Wood, CH; conductor: Dorothy Wood, of the BBC: Letter to Sir Henry Joseph Wood from Dorothy Wood: 1942: T...
Collection of papers removed from Yates Thompson MSS
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A collection of modern papers removed from other Yates Thompson MSS. Contents: [ir-iir]: Table of contents. ff. 1r-3r: A 1453 bond by Jean, Bastard of Orleans, count of Dunois and of Longueville, to Bertrand de Beauvais, for 200 crowns, with a 1469 and notarial certificate of receipt (ff. 1r-...
Collection of papers removed from Yates Thompson MSS
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A collection of over 100 papers and letters to Henry Yates Thompson removed from other Yates Thompson MSS, mostly from museums and libraries in England and abroad offering provenance information, translations, and commentaries on his manuscript collection. Includes letters from M. R. James (15r...