The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Thomas Dunham Whitaker (1759 - 1821)
Topographer and antiquary. Contributed annotations for the second edition of Ducatus Loediensis (1816). Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29226 Relationships: Thomas Dunham Whitaker was a unspecified to Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)Linked print sources: as Editor - Ducatus Leodiensis [1816]: or, The topography of the ancient and populous towns 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. 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. And also a catalogue of manuscripts, the various editions of the Bible, and books published in the Infancy of the art of printing, with an account of some unusual accidents that have attended some persons, attempted after the method of Dr. Plot. The second edition with notes and annotations by Thomas Dunham Whitaker, L.L.D. F.S.A..
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