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Presented under the will of Falconer Madan, the collection of pamphlets and books he formed in order to write a bibliography of the Sacheverell affair. There are numerous variant copies of each work and pirated reprints, re-issues, re-impressions and copies with in-press corrections

First edition, published posthumously, engraved by H de Baussen

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.

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

Includes a decorated chart of the ships tracks, views of Prince Ruperts Bay from Mount Alleyn and several panoramas of the English coast line.

Letters to and from members of this important Bristol Merchant family, engaged in the manufacture of porcelain.

112 deeds referring to small holdings of an acre or less

11 pattern-shop order books in unbroken sequence 1840 to 1926, containing detailed descriptions of a wide variety of machinery tools and domestic appliances manufactured by the company with the names of their customers

34 coloured penand ink plans of estates mainly in the parishes of St Enoder, Ladock and St Erme with schedules of field names and acreages

Dunn was a surgeon in Derbyshire near the Nightingale family seat at Lea. The letters range widely over Nightingales interests but centre on the welfare of family members and villagers in the neighbourhood