Small 12mo in original binding, the earliest Bible published by the Stationers Company
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1646
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 250
Institution: Bible Society
Town/City: Swindon
County: Wiltshire
Item date: 1870
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey
Presented by CER Clarabut together with Park: Letters from Ladysmith, 1901 and Palliser: Historic Devices, Badges and War-Cries
Item date: 1811
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey
Four page satirical pamphlet written during the Peninsula War and probably printed on an Army travelling press. Presented by John Ehrman
Item date: 1742
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
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.
Item date: early 15th century
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 2,750
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
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
Item date: 1549
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Printed at Paris. Presented by CER Clarabut
A Comparative View of the Public Finances from the Beginning to the Close of the Late Administration
Item date: 1803
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
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
Item date: 1583
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 3,500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The only known copy of an edition eight years earlier than any hitherto recorded, with important textual variants
Item date: 1721
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
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
Item date: 1824
Date acquired: 1972
Grant Value: 30
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: Liverpool Public Libraries, Hornby Library
Sanders was one of the founders of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. This letter refers to the rage for railroads that is becoming so great that many will be laid in areas where they will not pay