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Author: Honore de Balzac
Item date: 1850
Date acquired: 1949
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Written during his last illness, only signature in Balzacs own hand. Presented by Mrs Amschel. Add MS 47458, f23

Author: M Philidor
Item date: 1770
Date acquired: 1949
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by Desmond Flower

Author: Anon
Item date: 1790
Date acquired: 1949
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Fine copy in the original case, with a few manuscript notes, some referring to the French Revolution; presented by Miss C Cholmely

Author: James I and VI
Item date: 1603
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by FF Madan together with a 3rd edition of Congreves Love for Love, 6th edition of Popes Rape of the Lock, first Dublin edition of Johnsonss Lives of the Poets, 5th edition of Johnsons Dictionary and the first American edition of 1818; first Dublin edition of Boswells Life of Johnson; 4

Author: John June
Item date: 1756
Date acquired: 1955
Grant Value: 50
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Second edition. No other copy recorded, 2 uncoloured and 50 coloured plates

Author: Sir George Mackenzie
Item date: 16th - 18th centuries
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

A microcosm of Scottish life: Religion and church government, politics, law, education, estate management, popular medicine, fencing and the Darien scheme are all represented, often in extremely scarce works. Illustrated as plate I of AR

Author: Isaac Wake
Item date: 1607
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Wake was public orator on the occasion of a visit of James I to Oxford in 1865; this second edition not in STC. Presented by FF Madan

Author: Florence Nightingale
Item date: 1858
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Published anonymously. Presented by Mrs Vivian Seymer together with Suggestions on a System of Nursing for Hospitals in India, 1865 with FNs signature and a few notes in her hand

Author: John Shepery
Item date: 1586
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

2 other copies known; presented by George Smith together with John Winter Jones: Observations on the Division of Mans Life into Stages, 1861

Author: Jonathan Martin
Item date: 1825
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

First edition, presented by Thomas Balston