Grants awarded in 1962

Includes Queen Elizabeths Letters Patent authorising the Cadiz expedition. H P Kraus gave 350 of the total grant

Commences with the marriage treaty between Charles VIII and Anne de Bretagne 1491; the bulk of the volume are Acts of Francis I 1518-1543. Presented by TS Blakeney, Add MS 50866

Correspondents include WH Frere and Christopher Wordsworth

Presented by John Ehrman together with Nathaniel Bisbie: Unity of Priesthood Necessary to the Unity of the Communion in a Church, 1692

Printed by Kerver the elder at Paris, bound in the original sheep.

First edition, printed by Nicholas le Gras, in a plain binding. Arthur Gimson gave 40 towards the purchase

231 drawings contained in 5 of the original 15 printed covers.

A military plan of Palghat fort, Malabar illustrating its capture in 1783 by Colonel William Fullarton and the Corps of Hanoverians from the Poligars of the southern peninsula.

A very early C text of the poem, written in a good vernacular gothic book hand, initial capitals in gold, rubrication in red. Bound in 19thcentury red morocco. Illustrated as Plate 1 of AR

Montaigne was Buchanans pupil at the College de Guyenne at Bordeaux. Illustrated as frontispiece to AR

Presented by Simon Nowell-Smith together with another Hogarth Press book not then owned by BL , Logan Pearsall Smiths Stories from the Old Testament.

Fifth edition, an unrecorded piracy. Lacks B9, 10, 12

Written from Manyema west of Lake Tanganyika to Kirk at Zanzibar

Bethesda ha s several variant readings; The Latest Decalogue contains disitiches not in the printed version and the third poem is the only known manuscript. Presented by Simon Nowell-Smith.