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Date acquired: 1945
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Rolled manuscript 100 foot long, of Oriental execution, presented by Mrs Clare

Item date: 1689-1777
Date acquired: 1945
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Portrait Gallery
Town/City: London

Includes a tavern bill for 12 January 1689, list of Members May 1702, plan of the room at Barn Elms which was built for the Kitcat portraits, showing order in which they hung. Presented by Percy Dobell

Author: Francois Bonneville
Item date: 1796
Date acquired: 1944
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Exeter Central Library
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon

Presented with Works of Hogarth in 2 vols by Mrs A Levine

Author: Fernando de Sapulveda
Item date: 1523
Date acquired: 1945
Grant Value: 67 10s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Recipes for the use of doctors and apothecaries, printed at Salamanca

Author: St Bonaventura
Item date: 1499
Date acquired: 1945
Grant Value: 75 12s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Printed at the Monastery of Monserrat, bought with Johannes Gerson: Opusculum tripartitum de praeceptis decalogi ... 1484. Illustrated as plate II of AR

Author: Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Item date: 1746
Date acquired: 1945
Grant Value: 30
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Fine copy of the rare first edition

Author: Edward Pond
Item date: 1601
Date acquired: 1945
Grant Value: 10
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

3 years earlier than any previously known edition; illustrated as plate III of AR

Author: CPE Bach
Item date: 1753
Date acquired: 1945
Grant Value: 49 18s 9d
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

CPE Bachs work is the first stage in the development of scientific keyboard technique. Exceptionally fine copy, wholly uncut bound in full red morocco by Ferdinand Bakala of Vienna

Author: GF Handel (Composer) H Purcell (Composer)
Item date: 1750
Date acquired: 1945
Grant Value: 25 10s 4d
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Contains several songs set to music by Handel; bought with The Second Book of the Ladys Banquet, 1706, in its original wrappers, containing 3 pieces by Purcell. Illustrated at plate IV of AR

Author: William Hazlitt
Item date: 1806
Date acquired: 1945
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by Arthur Gimson