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Seven letters, two by Sir Robert Sale and five by his wife from 1842, which relate to the First Afghan War and the First Anglo-Sikh War.

Notes written by Rosina Bulwer Lytton, estranged wife of Sir Edward Lytton, on 72 empty envelopes. The notes include trenchant personal commetns on a variety of subjects and persons, including her husband, 'that Ruffianly Blackguard Sir Liar Coward Bulwer Lytton'.

A lavishly illuminated Hours of the Passion, Paris, 15th cent. The manuscript is possibly a part of a Book of Hours now in the Huntington Library, San Marino.

Manuscript roll of seven vellum membranes, England c,1340, containing both the earliest surviving English ordinary of arms, with 589 painted shields, and the oldest roll of arms for Scotland on the dorse. The latter, apparently copied c.

The accounts ledger of William Hodgkinson of Overton Hall, Ashover, lead merchant, c. 1668-1700. A record of great rarity, whose export was delayed by the Reviewing Committee on the export of Works of Art to enable its purchase by a British institution.

Estate papers of the Pigot Family of Somerford Radnor, 13-17th cent. The Pigots were a leading Cheshire family, and the archive records their connections with other prominent local families such as the Downes of Somerford and the Throstles of Macclesfield.

A justification by Valentine Morris (1727-89) of his conduct during his unsuccessful defence of St Vincent, which was captured by the French in 1779.

Family and estate papers of the Stepney-Gulston Family, 16-20th cent. Includes manuscripts and diaries of Alan Stepney-Gulston, Victorian poet and novelist, and Josepha Heath-Gulston, the Victorian novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Talbot Gwynne.

Account Roll of Sir Richard Ingleby, Treasurer of Berwick, compiled 1557-60, and 3 account books recording in detail expenditure at Berwick on the military establishment, fortifications &c, 1549-52

Artists' Books in limited editions.