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Printed at Paris. Presented by CER Clarabut

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

First edition, printed at Agen; a fine example of French provincial printing in a 19th century blue morocco binding with elaborate doublures, richly gilt

The deed appoints trustees of lands, out of the profits of which they are to appoint a priest to say Mass daily for Sir John Percyvale and Dame Thomasine, his wife. He is also to keep a grammar school in a house newly built for the purpose. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR