DUCATUS LEODIENSIS: or, the Topography of ... Town and Parish of Leedes, and Parts Adjacent in the West-Riding ... of York.: To which is added, at the Request of several Learned Persons, A Catalogue of his Musaeum, with the Curiosities Natural and Artificial, and the Antiquities ; particularly the Roman, British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Scotch Coins, with Modern Medals. Also

Leeds, Wakefield: B. Dewhirst for Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, 1816. Second edition Enlarged. Hardcover. Good. engravings, woodcuts. Folio; xvi, xvii, 261 [i.e. 268],123, 159, 11: pagination irregular; 42.5 cm. contemporary panelled & diced calf, extra gilt, newly rebacked, foxed . Ex libris Alfred Harris, and G. F. Ferrand.

2 vols in 1. With the pedigrees of many of the Nobility and Gentry, from records, original evidences, and manuscripts ( including 13 genealogical tables). The original edition of this book, in 1715, justified Thoresby's membership in the Royal Society, and displayed his erudition on Englands's Roman antiquities and coins (many of which are depicted here). Thoresby also owned a broad collection of "curiosities", from incunables to medical anomalies, which was ranked second only to Tradescant. In this edition, the continuation of the Pedigrees was principally done by Christopher Bolland, and the additions to Part 2, "Musaeum Thoresbyanum", detail items added after 1715 to the time of the collections dispersal. Also includes a Life of Thoresby, who has been called the First Historian of Leeds.. The frontispiece is a mezzotint portrait of Thoresby, with an engraved view of Leeds by J. Le Keux, and a portrait of John Harrison, & 8 other engravings of views and coins or antiquities, and also dozens of heraldic devices..Includes a lengthy poem about John Thoresby by Theodore Bathurst. The 'Ducatus leodiensis' forms vol. I, the Loidis and Elmete" [by] T.D. Whitaker, 1816, vol II of what is commonly called "The history of Leeds." - Boyne.