The Beudeker Collection is a collection of maps and views of the Netherlands and Belgium in the British Library, created by the Dutch merchant Christoffel...
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Christoffel Beudeker (1675 or 1685 – 1756) was an Amsterdam merchant and landowner who created an important collection of maps and views of the Netherlands...
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Cotton library (redirect from Cottonian Collection)
is a collection of manuscripts that came into the hands of the antiquarian and bibliophile Sir Robert Bruce Cotton MP (1571–1631). The collection of books...
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The Egerton Collection is a collection of historical manuscripts held in the British Library. The core of the collection comprises 67 manuscripts bequeathed...
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all visitors, not just library ticket-holders, to enter it. It held a collection of 25,000 books focusing on the cultures represented in the museum along...
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British Library (section Electronic collections)
play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. The Library's collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial holdings of manuscripts...
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Tauchnitz publishers (redirect from Todd-Bowden Collection of Tauchnitz Editions)
started at Leipzig (Germany) on 1 February 1837. Bernhard started the Collection of British and American Authors in 1841, a reprint series familiar to...
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National Sound Archive (NSA), in London, England is among the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient...
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The Suppressed Safe collection are those books held by the British Library that readers are not permitted to access. There are several reasons for the...
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Private Case (redirect from Private Case (Library Collection))
Case is a collection of erotica and pornography held initially by the British Museum and then, from 1973, by the British Library. The collection began between...
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