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The accumulation of a lifetimes fanatical collecting. Estimated as possibly 750,000 portrait engravings, particularly strong in 18th and 19th century work; the periods in which the NPG was until this acquisition, particularly weak

With watercolour sketch plan of the Battle of Seringapatam

In its original monastic binding with two other religious treatises

In unusually good and complete condition. 19 initials illuminated in red, pink, organge, yellow, blue and green, with a generous quantity of gold and a little silver. MS Add 115

About 800 pages of very varied material including notes for a second edition, never published, of the Original Theory of New Hypothesis of the Universe, plus astronomical tables and drawings of star maps

The only surviving Minute book of the Committee for Discoveries, one of the many such committees set up by the Long Parliament in a desperate attempt to finance their war against the King. Add MS 54198

A fascinating record of exceptionally early date of a minor secular landowner. Add MS 54228

Noteable specimen of the handwriting of the pioneer of cinematography. Add MS 53816. Presented by John Ehrman

The first German translation of Plutarch's Moralia, boun din contemporary German pigskin. Presented by Mr & Mrs Albert Ehrman

A slim volume of First World War poetry, not previously in BL . Presented by Peter Davies