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Author: Joseph Morris of Shrewsbury
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire

10 volumes containing detailed pedigrees and notes on the principal families of Shropshire. They supplement the papers of George Morris, Josephs brother acquired by the library some years earlier

Author: Anon
Item date: 1678
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: St Andrews University
Town/City: St Andrews
County: Fife

Presented by WL Wood. Steele no. 2441

Author: Richard Bentley (Publisher)
Item date: 1829-1898
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London

Presented by John Ehrman. For details see acquisition of a copy by BL 1951

Author: Sir Thomas More
Item date: 1529
Date acquired: 1950
Grant Value: 50
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire

The rarer of the two 1529 editions

Author: Richard Crashaw
Item date: 1643
Date acquired: 1950
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Only piece of English prose in Crashaws hand then known to exist. Informs recipient that Cs relationship with Mary Collet has been broken off. Illustrated as plate IV of AR

Author: Andreas Vesalius
Item date: 1555
Date acquired: 1950
Grant Value: 15
Institution: Science Museum
Town/City: London

Second edition, printed at Basle

Author: Horatio Nelson
Item date: 1805
Date acquired: 1950
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

This copy of the order was sent to Captain Brown of the Ajax, serial number 10, signed by Nelson and his secretary John Scott. Presented by Commander L McCormick-Goodhart

Item date: 1341-1791
Date acquired: 1950
Grant Value: 150
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire

English nuns who took over estates in Belgium, fled from thence at the time of the French Revolution. This is a comprehensive set of their estate records 8 14th century volumes, 16 from 15th century, 69 16th century, 36 17th century, 8 18th century to 1791

Author: Symeon of Durham & others
Item date: 1200-1214
Date acquired: 1950
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Durham Cathedral
Town/City: Durham

8vo manuscript of 121 folios of 3 separate, though continuous works: Historia Ecclesiae - the history of the churches of Lindisfarne and Durham to 1096, second section covers the period 1096 - 1144; the third, called The Chronicle of Geoffrey of Coldingham takes the history to 1199.

Author: Henry Fielding
Item date: 1751
Date acquired: 1950
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Dublin edition, presented by FF Madan together with Locke Du Gouvernement Civil, Amsterdam 1755; 3rd edition of Popes Ode for Musick on St Cecilias Day 1719; 6th edition of Popes Essay on Criticism 1719; A Hand-Kerchife for Loyall Mourners 1649; A Full and Authentic Report of the Trial of Jonatha