Displaying 1821 - 1830 of 1976
Author: William Bullein
Item date: 1564
Date acquired: 1935
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
One of only 2 copies extant (the other is now at the Huntingdon Library) 3 leaves lacking, supplied in facsimile. Presented by WA Marsden, illustrated at plate IIb in AR
Author: Robert Clive
Item date: 1762
Date acquired: 1935
Grant Value: 50
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
3 letters purchased one further presented by Lt Gen Sir Gerald F Ellison, now all Add MS 44061
Author: John Campbell 4th Earl Loudon
Item date: 1762-3
Date acquired: 1935
Grant Value: 65
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Includes Loudons holograph diary 1762-63 written during his command of the British army in Portugal. Add MSS 44063-84.
Item date: 1521
Date acquired: 1935
Grant Value: 86 2s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Earliest printed account of Abyssinia; illustrated as plate IV in AR
Item date: 13th century
Date acquired: 1935
Grant Value: 78 15s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Includes a Bull of Innocent III, the earliest record of the foundation of the Priory. Add MS 43972; illustrated as plate III of AR
Author: Anthony Munday
Item date: 1580
Date acquired: 1937
Grant Value: 500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Bound with The Paradyse of daintie Devises, 1580 and A Gorgious Gallery of gallant Inventions, 1578; all extremely rare. Illustrated as Plates IV and V of AR
Author: Herman Melville
Item date: 1855
Date acquired: 1937
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: English Speaking Union
Town/City: London
First English edition, presented by EK Waterhouse
Author: RB Buckley
Item date: 1893
Date acquired: 1937
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Birmingham University
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
2 vols presented by Charles Fox
Author: Jean Rodolph Perronet
Item date: 1782
Date acquired: 1937
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London
Presented by Sheriff Brown
Author: Ariosto
Item date: 1580
Date acquired: 1937
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London
Part of the bequest of Miss Coulson James, together with 3 other works of Italian literature