The deeds centre on Richard Tottell and Richard Grafton his brother-in-law and refer to land transactions in Buckinghamshire
Search FNL grants since 1931
Presented by Mrs Robson-Scott together with some 200 other volumes of major German authors ranging from Klopstock and Lichtenberg to Kafka and Benn. Includes large numbers of works by German expressionists including Georg Heym, Trakl and Jakob von Hoddis
Over 400 pre-Dissolution charters and deeds, including the foundation charter granted by Thurstan Archbishop of York in 1132. Collection follows the changing fortunes and ownership of the lands down to the late 18th century, by which time it was owned by Lord Grantham ambassador in Madrid.
Besides the Duke, the letters were addressed to the Bishop of Norwich, the Mayor and several gentlemen appointing them Commissioners to decide the quantity of arms and armour to be maintained by the City for its defence
1500 documents in this collection date from before 1550 with much topographical information and too much [sic] about the medieval glass industry in Staffordshire.
Letters to and from members of this important Bristol Merchant family, engaged in the manufacture of porcelain.
Includes a decorated chart of the ships tracks, views of Prince Ruperts Bay from Mount Alleyn and several panoramas of the English coast line.
One of the projected series of 34 fascicles. The 743 copper plates engraved from drawings by Sydney Parkinson of the plants collected by Banks on his voyage round the world 1768 - 1771 with Captain Cook. The plates, which are housed at British Library had never before been printed in colour
Only known copy of the plan for the whole of the Essay on Man. One of the 1400 volumes in the collection of Harold Forster of minor verse of the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection is particularly strong on anonymous satire, though there are also sentimental, didactic and legendary tales.
First edition, published posthumously, engraved by H de Baussen