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These ledgers provide unique information on the development of the harp by Sbastien Erard, one of the most gifted inventors in musical history, who also devised the double escapement for the pianoforte as well as the single and double action harp.

The Duc de Rohan was, after Coligny, the most admired, even heroic, of the Hugenot leaders in the struggle against the Catholic power in the French religious wars. Copied from the same source as the 1644 edition, but differing in some points from that of 1646.

Only known copy of this edtion (STC 15809.5) In a contemporary blind-stamped calf binding with a panel on the front cover showing St George slaying the dragon and on the rear cover St Michael thrusting Satan into the abyss. Presented in memory of Lord Kenyon by a group of his friends

80 printed volumes of Davies poetry together with a bound volume of autograph fair copies of 15 poems some of them apparently unpublished, submitted to James Guthrie for publication by the Pear Tree Press.

Sketches in pen and brown ink, with occasional wash; several drawings are clearly trial poses and compositions, but roughly twice as many are for subjects pictures, often no more than the rough outline of a body.

Written when Barnes was 16 years old, an attempt at epic written on the back of two almanacs for the years 1813 and 14.

Groups of polemics on aspects of Franciscan order and social attitudes and behaviour. Bound in a contemporary blind-stamped binding by Wynkyn de Wordes binder. STC 17971.3

Many of the documents illustrate both the preparations and the course of the Civil War.

Just over 250 letters written during the last 30 years of Landseers life to his friend and patron William Wells of Redleaf, Kent.

Translation into Latin of the Scottish mathematicians Astronomique discours, printed probably at Geneva by Jean de Tournes. One other copy known in the UK, at the library of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich