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.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1484
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1543-99
Date acquired: 1976
Grant Value: 75
Item cost: 315
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office
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
Item date: 1802-1843
Date acquired: 1976
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 3,500
Institution: British Library, India Office Library
Town/City: London
44 volumes of manuscript journal, copies of 160 official documents and 13 bundles of private letters. The major part of the journals concern Nicholls four periods of service in India.
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1976
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 2,057
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Rev John Newton, curate of Olney is best remembered today for his hymn Amazing Grace recording his dramatic conversion after a life as a slave trader. 120 letters, mostly unpublished at time of purchase; they give a vivid picture of the sources of Newtons religious belief
Item date: 1811
Date acquired: 1976
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bodleian Library, Taylor Institution
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Presented with three volumes of Boileau Dezpraux, 1820 and the second edition in English of Voltaires Candide 1759 by Mrs Sigrid Oldman
Item date: 1572
Date acquired: 1976
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 23,895
Institution: Royal College of Art
Town/City: London
The earliest book in a collection of 842 volumes on colour. Also includes Goethes Farbenlehre 1810, Newtons Optics 1704, Kunckels Ars Vitraria Experimentalis 1689 and Portals Symbolic Colours 1844.
Item date: 1738-39
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Lincoln College
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
James Hervey came under the influence of Wesley at Lincoln and was one of the first Oxford Methodists, though he came to disagree with Wesleys public preaching and evangelism. The se letters date from this later period of disagreement
Item date: 1910-1911
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Scott Polar Research Institute
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Petty Officer Browning kept a diary during Captain Scotts second Antarctic expedition, recording every day events on board ship. He was part of the Northern party who passed the winter at Cape Adare. The diary ends before they had to pass another winter in an ice cave with very scanty food
Item date: 1798-1815
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 30
Institution: National Army Museum, Sandhurst
Town/City: Sandhurst
County: Surrey
Brownrigg was Quartermaster General and Military Secretary to the Duke of York, Commander in Chief. Almost 700 letters and documents.
Item date: 14th -19th centuries
Date acquired: 1969
Grant Value: 250
Institution: Centre for Kentish Studies
Town/City: Maidstone
County: Kent
A substantial collection of manorial documents of 16th and 17th centuries, 2,000 medieval deeds, and a large quantity of family papers, including the delinquency papers of the Second Earl during Commonwealth times