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. Presented by WL Wood together with Hans Naumann Die Holzschnitte des Meisters com Amsterdamer Kabinet zum Spiegel Menschlicher Behaltnis, 1910

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. 103 drawings were used in the published parts and later in the complete volume, 65 are alternative drawings that remained unused, 63 were not used or described. They are by Thomas Allport, RK Greville, Rebecca Miller and others.

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. The author served with distinction in the engagement

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. Mr Nowell-Smith also gave two books of Poetry by Sassoon Four Poems (Keynes A16) and The Redeemer (Keynes A13)

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. Add MS 50865