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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

Author: Bartholomeus Rimbertinus
Item date: 1498
Date acquired: 1945
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented with a copy of Sir Philip Sidney: The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia, 1605 ,by Arthur Gimson. Illustrated as plate V of AR

Author: David Livingstone
Item date: 1852 - 1865
Date acquired: 1945
Grant Value: not recorded
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Papers & letters referring to conditions in Africa

Author: Anon
Item date: 1647
Date acquired: 1945
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

Presented with John Fysher: Treatyse concernynge the fruytfull sayinges of Davyd the Kynge ...1555, by Thomas Tyrwhitt

Item date: 1564
Date acquired: 1945
Grant Value: 25 10s
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

Good copy of the rare second version of these poems and orations in honour of Michaelangelo, with a description of the pageant prepared in his honour

Author: Cicero
Item date: 1783
Date acquired: 1944
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Exeter Central Library
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon

11 vols bound in vellum. Presented with 5 vol set of Ovicd, 1825, by Rev George Wheeler