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Two bound volumes containing about 200 autograph letters exchanged between Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911), Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Dr Asa Gray (1810-88), a leading American botanist, together with 33 letters from Hooker to his wife, Hyacinth, 35 letters from Hooker to vario

The substantial personal and estate archive of a prominent and well-connected family owning nearly 12,000 acres in Norfolk.

A portfolio of 24 drawings, fourteen of Rufford Abbey, five of Ollerton Hall, three of a proposed church at Ollerton, one possibly of Osberton Hall and one unidentified. They were probably commissioned by Sir George Savile, 8th Bt. (1726-1784), the owner of Rufford Abbey and Ollerton Hall.

This fine charter is a confirmation of a grant of nine bovates of land in Eakring, Nottinghamshire by Matthew, Abbott of Rufford, to Osbert de Capella and Emma his wife. A seal of Osbert depicting his device (a wheel?) is attached to the charter.

Thomas Cecil Howitt (1889 - 1968) was one of the leading provincial architects of his day.

The 4,000 boxes containing the Broadlands Archives, dating from the 16-20th centuries, are one of the UK’s most important family and estate collections.

A printed map of the River Tyne from Heddon on the Wall to the sea in two sections, evidently produced in connection with a disputed proposal to erect a ballast shore at Jarrow Slake. No other copy of the 1675 section appears to be known.

The earliest deed in the collection is almost a century earlier than its auction description had indicated: a grant by Reynold Roylly of Hullavington to Miles de Scyston and wife Sara, of Eastbery Grange, 1315. A few of the deeds relate to property in Gloucestershire and Somerset. These records are an important source of topographical and place name evidence as well as documenting the links and relationships between local families.

A volume containing seven very rare catalogues for art sales which took place in the Low Countries between 1767 and 1777, as well as extracts in manuscript for three further sales.

These unpublished letters were part of the private collection of the late Paula Peyraud (b. 1947), a reclusive librarian from Chappaqua, New York, who assembled an outstanding collection of literary materials relating to the Bluestockings.