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284 pieces for Piano collected by the Princess, only child of George IV, with a pen drawing by her of couples dancing as frontipiece. Small oblong quarto, bound in blue staight-grained morocco, gilt

By the charter, the grantor Waleran FitzRanulf gives to the Abbey of St Stephens Caen the church of Bures St Mary in Suffolk. Signum of the Conqueror considered to be genuine and not a later forgery. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR. Add Charter 75503

Manuscript on vellum, 96 leaves written in a small gothic hand in red and black with intials in red, green and blue. Add MS 50754

Presented by TS Blakeney together with autograph draft of a letter by William Paley. Add MSS 50785, 50789

Presented with two other books in 16th century French bindings, Poetical Works of the Strozii and Catois disticha, 1577 by Mrs & Mrs Albert Ehrman. They also gave a large collection of rubbings of bindings by Roger de Coverly

50 given by Arthur Gimson. The only known copy of the first edition of the first English abridgement of the Laws

Presented by WL Wood together with Goldsmith & Parnell Poems 1795, JD Bordona Manuscritos con Pinturas, 1933 and a 17th century Manuscript of the Kuran in Arabic script with decorated panels bound in contemporary red morocco

Presented by Major Magnus Sandison

92 pages with 3 full page drawings. Mostly notes of pictures seen in the great collections in Paris with notes on sale prices of some of them

The first polyglot Bible; it marks the beginning of modern biblical scholarship