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Author: George Hutchins Bellasis
Item date: 1815
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
6 plates of St Helena issued just before Napoleons exile, illustrated at plate IX of AR; presented by John G Gubbins
Author: Lord Byron
Item date: 1816
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Hitherto unrecorded piracy, presented together with 4 other books, listed in AR , by Miss Mary Holgate
Author: Harriet Martineau
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by the recipients daughter, Mrs E Holyoake Marsh. Add MS 42726
Author: Philip Henry
Item date: 1631-96
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Papers of a non-conformist divine & his family, presented by Rev E Rhys Jones
Author: William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury
Item date: 1722
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by Jesus College Oxford, together with 4 other works of 17th & 18th century theology, listed in AR; also presented 3 similar works to National Library of Wales, listed in AR
Author: Edward Riddle
Item date: 1849
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented together with other duplicates by Trinity House; other institutions also benefitted from this dispersal, especially the Science Museum, which got over 100 vols
Author: Anon
Item date: 12th & 14th centuries
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
3 charters are 12th century with fine seals, one is a late 14th century forgery of an earlier charter; presented by M r & Mrs Elmhirst. Add Charters 70691 - 70696
Author: Arthur Lord Capel, Baron of Hadham
Item date: 1683
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by Mr AL Marriott; long contemporary inscription on fly leaf given in full in AR
Author: Anon
Item date: 1584
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Gardiner may have been the original of Shakespeares Justice Shallow; presented by JC Whitebrook. Add Charter 70729
Author: Sir Benjamin Keene
Item date: 1697-1757
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Personal correspondence of 18th century diplomat in Spain, presented by Mrs Olive Ruck-Keene. Add MSS 43412 - 43443