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Author: Sir Walter Scott
Item date: 1830
Date acquired: 1934
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Armagh Public Library
Town/City: Armagh
County: Armagh

Presented together with 23 other volumes of Irish interest by Lord Moyne

Author: Desiderus Erasmus
Item date: 1511
Date acquired: 1935
Grant Value: 225
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

First edition, Belgian issue; illustrated as plate II of AR

Author: John Howard Payne
Item date: 1829
Date acquired: 1935
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Lent for 5 years by L McCormick-Goodhart. Illustrated as plate VII of AR. In 1945 this was converted to an outright gift to mark VE Day. Add MS 46132, ff.1, 21

Author: Anon
Item date: 1700
Date acquired: 1935
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Copied from John Ogilbys Britannia, 1675, the first road atlas of England and Wales. Presented by ES Lamplough; illustrated as plate VI b in AR. Add MS 44087

Author: Anon
Item date: 1415-44
Date acquired: 1935
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Compiled by a German monk, in its original chained binding of beech boards covered with doe skin; presented by ES Lamplough together with a volume of notes for a sermon in the hand of Philip Henry, 17th century nonconformist divine

Author: Gilles Corrozet (in anonymous translation)
Item date: 1602
Date acquired: 1935
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Collection of moral tales first published in French in 1556. Only one other perfect copy known. Presented by Sir Leicester Harmsworth

Author: Petrarch
Item date: 1500
Date acquired: 1935
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by Sir George Hill together with 6 other early printed books in fine bindings

Author: William Bullein
Item date: 1564
Date acquired: 1935
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

One of only 2 copies extant (the other is now at the Huntingdon Library) 3 leaves lacking, supplied in facsimile. Presented by WA Marsden, illustrated at plate IIb in AR

Author: Robert Clive
Item date: 1762
Date acquired: 1935
Grant Value: 50
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

3 letters purchased one further presented by Lt Gen Sir Gerald F Ellison, now all Add MS 44061

Author: John Campbell 4th Earl Loudon
Item date: 1762-3
Date acquired: 1935
Grant Value: 65
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Includes Loudons holograph diary 1762-63 written during his command of the British army in Portugal. Add MSS 44063-84.