The Latin text with translation into French by Guy Jouvenaux, abbot of St Sulpice, Bourges. A fine copy with two large woodcuts, illustrated as plate II of AR
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1500
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: 90
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1507-8
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Printed by Kerver the elder at Paris, bound in the original sheep. Presented by WL Wood together with Hans Naumann Die Holzschnitte des Meisters com Amsterdamer Kabinet zum Spiegel Menschlicher Behaltnis, 1910
Item date: 1582
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 200
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Montaigne was Buchanans pupil at the College de Guyenne at Bordeaux. Illustrated as frontispiece to AR
Item date: 1871
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 200
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Written from Manyema west of Lake Tanganyika to Kirk at Zanzibar
Item date: 1919
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by Simon Nowell-Smith together with another Hogarth Press book not then owned by BL , Logan Pearsall Smiths Stories from the Old Testament. Mr Nowell-Smith also gave two books of Poetry by Sassoon Four Poems (Keynes A16) and The Redeemer (Keynes A13)
Item date: 1666
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 40
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
First edition, printed by Nicholas le Gras, in a plain binding. Arthur Gimson gave 40 towards the purchase
Item date: 1682
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 35 14s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Fifth edition, an unrecorded piracy. Lacks B9, 10, 12
Item date: 1783
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A military plan of Palghat fort, Malabar illustrating its capture in 1783 by Colonel William Fullarton and the Corps of Hanoverians from the Poligars of the southern peninsula. The author served with distinction in the engagement
Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Commences with the marriage treaty between Charles VIII and Anne de Bretagne 1491; the bulk of the volume are Acts of Francis I 1518-1543. Presented by TS Blakeney, Add MS 50866
Item date: 1400
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 500
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London
A very early C text of the poem, written in a good vernacular gothic book hand, initial capitals in gold, rubrication in red. Bound in 19thcentury red morocco. Illustrated as Plate 1 of AR