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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

Author: H Drexel
Item date: 1633
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by Arthur Gimson together with The Godlie Garden of Gethsemani, 1580, a translation of the work of the Italian Jesuit Gaspare Loarte; Michel Correttes Methode theorique et pratique pour apprendre en peu de tems le violoncelle, 1741 and Arnes The Masque of Alfred, 1755 which contains the

Author: Anon
Item date: 1520
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Apparently unrecorded edition; text consists of admonitions on the state of grace and the Eucharist. Bound for Cockerell by Katharine Adams. Presented by Albert Ehrman

Author: William Strahan (Publisher)
Item date: 1739-1857
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by Messrs Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. 120 volumes of business papers of what Dr Johnson Called The greatest printing house in London. 29 vols of General Ledgers 1762-1855, 18 vols of Costs books 1815-1857, only 1 Letter book from before 1857. Add MSS 48800 - 48906

Author: GA Tagliente
Item date: 1525
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: 100
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

A unique copy in magnificent condition of the fourth issue of the second of the famous series of Italian writing books. Illustrated as plate II of AR

Author: L Guerin
Item date: 1855
Date acquired: 1953
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

A continuation of Guerins Histoire Maritime de France 1843; presented by AM Cohen and Sir Herbert Cohen

Author: Maurice Kyffin
Item date: 1587
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: 50
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

Unpublished MSS account of the social side of Lord Buckhursts embassy to the Low Countries by a member of his entourage, who was later to write one of the classics of Welsh prose Deffynniad Ffydd Eglwys Loegr

Author: N Boteler
Item date: 1688
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

Presented by Sir Eric Miller together with the papers, journals and four signal books of Edward Pakenham, 2nd baron Longford 1743-1782 plus his Nautical Improvements 1793.

Author: Sir John Mandeville
Item date: 1503
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Third English edition, imperfect but important for the woodcuts not found in the 1499 edition. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde. Illustrated as plate III of AR