Ducatus Leodiensis: . or, The topography of the ancient and popular town and parish of Leedes, and parts adjacent, in the West Riding of the county of York. With the pedigrees of many of the nobility and gentry, and other matters relating to those parts; extracted from records, original evidences, and manuscripts. By Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. To which is added, at the request of several learned persons, a catalogue of his musæum, with the curiosities natural and artificial, and the antiquities; particularly the Roman, British, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Scotch coins, with modern medals. Also a catalogue of manuscripts; the various editions of the Bible, and of books published in the infancy of printing. With an account of some unusual accidents that have attended some persons, attempted after the method of Dr. Plot.
Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)
Category
Books
Date
1816
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3078015
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],iv-xvi,[1],xvii,[1],261,[2],123,[1],159,[1],[11],[1]p. , [27] plates . ill.. . fol.. With an engraving of Sir Walter Blackett inserted at Hh. manuscript annotations pp.116-7 referring to Calverleys, former owners of Wallington.. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Half-morocco; green boards.
Makers and roles
Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) Thomas Dunham Whitaker (1759 - 1821)