Grants awarded in 1972

19 grants for 1972.

A proposal for Discovering our Longitude

National Maritime Museum

Miss Squires method involved dividing up the night sky into over a million small quadrants, the stars located in each then having to be learnt by heart.

Canti XI ...

Liverpool Public Libraries, Hornby Library

First edition, printed at Agen; a fine example of French provincial printing in a 19th century blue morocco binding with elaborate doublures, richly gilt

Holy Bible

Bible Society

Small 12mo in original binding, the earliest Bible published by the Stationers Company

Letter to Joseph Sanders

Liverpool Public Libraries, Hornby Library

Sanders was one of the founders of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

Papers and letters

Leeds Library, The

Also included are the papers of AG Stapleton, Cannings secretary and biographer.

signed warrant, for the arrest of Richard Knight

British Library

Knight was treasurer of the South Sea Company who had fled overseas. Presented together with a 17th century Heraldic seal of the College of Arms, in a contemporary box, by TS Blakeney