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The letter is about a new prison to be erected at Cambridge. Presented by John Ehrman

King Jamess early attempt to unify the two kingdoms; it would not be until 1707 that the term Great Britain would receive the official recognition of Parliament. Printed in London by Robert Barker, 3 broadside sheets, printed on rectos only in black letter.

24 leaves written in Carolingian script with titles of sections written in rustic capitals in the style of Tours. Bound in 18th century mottled sheepskin

The second book to be printed at Oxford.

50 photographic views of Lucknow and environs with accompanying descriptions. Presented by the Hon. Mrs Desmond Cooke

Written during a journey from Midnapore in Bengal to Simla while Trower was on sick leave. Illustrated with pen and ink and water colour sketches

Shows William Montacute, first Earl of Salisbury in full armour with crested helm and with his arms displayed on his surcoat and on accompanying shields and lance-pennons

Printed at Venice by Bernardinus Benalius; first edition, no other copy known in a British library. FONL grant given in memory of Christopher A Webb

One of the rarest of the books in the Broxbourne Gift of John Ehrman, which consisted of nine incunabula, one early 16th-century German book and 14 16th-century English books.

This book, together with the Leeke Cartulary acquired with the help of FONL in 1971, form the only surviving papers of the Leeke family estate centered on Sutton Scarsdale Hall