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A record of the examination under torture of the printers of the Marprelate tracts, written in a rapid cursive hand with numerous deletions and additions. Signed on every page by the commissioners and Symmes, Tamlin making a mark only - eloquent testimony to what was being done to him

Small 12mo in original binding, the earliest Bible published by the Stationers Company

Presented by CER Clarabut together with Park: Letters from Ladysmith, 1901 and Palliser: Historic Devices, Badges and War-Cries

Four page satirical pamphlet written during the Peninsula War and probably printed on an Army travelling press. Presented by John Ehrman

Miss Squires method involved dividing up the night sky into over a million small quadrants, the stars located in each then having to be learnt by heart.

Also contains Adam of Eynshams life of St Hugh of Lincoln. The MS was written in an English Charterhouse, probably that of London whose ex libris inscription dating from the early 16th century appears on the flyleaf

Printed at Paris. Presented by CER Clarabut

Presented by John Ehrman, together with two pamphlets: Report from the Committee appointed to Examine the Physicians who have attended His Majesty during his illness, 1789, and An Account of a Conversation between the Rt. Hon. Edm Burke and the Rt. Rev. Dr. Gibson, 1807

The only known copy of an edition eight years earlier than any hitherto recorded, with important textual variants

Knight was treasurer of the South Sea Company who had fled overseas. Presented together with a 17th century Heraldic seal of the College of Arms, in a contemporary box, by TS Blakeney