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Author: Bowes Family of Streatlam
Item date: 1569-1629
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 33
Institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham

Includes lists of the rebels condemned before Sir George Bowes after the Northern Rebellion 1569 with some notes in the hand of Sir Cuthbert Sharp

Author: Laurence Binyon
Item date: 1910 - 1932
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Binyon was Keeper of Prints and Drawings at BL; Sadler was Master of University College Oxford. Presented by Simon Nowell-Smith. Add MS 49997

Item date: 1626-1632
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by TS Blakeney together with a Law Commonplace book of the late 17th to early 18th centuries mainly in the hand of William Longueville. Add MSS 50116, 50117

Author: T Granger
Item date: 1620
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: 40 10s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Calf binding with gold tooling and unusual stamp of the royal arms of James I not found on any other book in BL, apparently dated 1611

Author: John Milton
Item date: 1651
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

First and third issues of the first edition. First issue the only copy known to FF Madan who presented it to BL together with a copy of the third issue uncut with original back paper wrapper preserved

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Item date: 1780
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: 80
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Arthur Gimson contributed 80 towards the purchase of this and the following works: A Description of the Sev enteen Provinces commonly called the Low-Countries ... 1672 (Not in Wing) and French Intrigues, or the history of their delusory promises since the Pyrenaean Treaty ...

Author: Clement V
Item date: 1471
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: 500
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Acquired for the Nation together with 850 works in 2000 volumes.

Author: Rabanus Maurus
Item date: 1503
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Presented by ML Wood together with 6 other miscellaneous items, including a Buddhist charm printed in Japan c.764, one of the first attested record of printing with copper blocks upon paper

Item date: 12th century
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: 250
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

The Book of Llandaff was the most valuable book of Welsh interest remaining in private hands; it was purchased together with a holograph revised translation of the Epistles to Timothy ...

Author: Anon
Item date: 1705
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

Manuscript on parchment pp 76. Pages tabulated to show the numbers of guns and quantities of stores carried by ships of 12 different sizes. Presented by John Ehrman