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

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.

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

Printed at Paris. Presented by CER Clarabut

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

The only known copy of an edition eight years earlier than any hitherto recorded, with important textual variants

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

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