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Gillies was an impecunious editor, minor poet and translator who lived in Edinburgh 1788 - 1858.

A topographical and historical survey of Switzerland and adjoining regions, unusually in duodecimo format with 1090 pages and 109 plates, many folded. No copy listed in the NUC or the Gesamtverzeichnis des deutschen Schrifttums 1700 - 1910. Total price given is in DM, not sterling

Published by Thomas Jefferys, the large world map shows the track of Admiral Lord Ansons fleet which returned in 1743 laden with plunder from the captured Manila Galleon.

Archive includes multiple drafts and detailed working notes for all the published and several very interesting unpublished plays and translations; an unpublished early novel; correspondence with friends and theatre colleagues, agents and editors, files of minutes and papers for the council of the

Pole was the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterb ury. These letters date from the period at which Pole was a fugitive from Henry VIII on the continent trying to persuade the Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France to raise an army to restore England to the Roman obedience

With MS addenda by William and Mary Wordsworth, who also wrote the introduction to the book, later published separately. In the 1810 text Wordsworth first makes the case for a National Park to be developed to help preserve the Lake District in its state of natural purity and simplicity.

Extremely rare, with the leaf of preface in which Wordsworth stated that Coleridge had written Christabel for the volume. This copy has both cancel and uncancelled leaf; a genuine mistake on the part of the binder rather than a conscious preservation, as the cancel has been misbound

Court rolls, rentals, deeds, plans sales particulars and other material. The archive reflects the entire history of the Talbot familys connection with Worcestershire, throughout a period in which they were one of the countys major landlords

Manuscript estate account books and deeds for the late 17th century, together with a diary for 1715 - 22. There are also letters from John Willes, to his father the bishop of Bath and Wells describing naval engagements with the French fleet off Cape Finistre and in India 1747 - 49

A major collection of drawings of antiquities by the Wiltshire historian Colt Hoare. Illustrated at p.30 of AR