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Beattie (James, 1735-1803). Scottish poet, moralist, and philosopher. Three manuscript volumes of Beattie’s philosophy lectures, plus Natural Phil...

* Bookplates. A collection of 46 bookplates engraved by John Augustus Charles Harrison (1872-1955), seventeen being on large paper and three beari...

* Bookplates. Collection of approximately 120 bookplates, late 19th & early 20th-century, names including Phil May by William Nicholson, John Wilk...

Broadside - Vagabonds. Act of the Sheriff-Court of Haddingtoun, relating to the Vagrant Poor, and Vagabonds, Elvingston, 6th October 1750, single-...

Broadsides. First Book of the Chronicle of the Isles; containing a curious display of female ambition, assurance, success, and disappointment. Exh...

* Chaplin (Charles, 1889-1977). Getting Acquainted featuring Charlie Chaplin, original lithographic poster for Liscard Palace [Cinema, Wallasey, W...

* Chinese Mortgage Deed. A printed deed completed in manuscript, Kee County, Shan Xi Province, 20 December 1924, decorative design printed in blue...

Civil War Broadside. His Majesties Proclamation forbidding all His loving Subjects of the Counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire, to rais...

* Clay (Joseph Miles, 1881-1949). British Civil Servant in India and Magistrate. A small archive of material relating to Sir Joseph Miles Clay, la...

* Durham Mining Archive. An archive of mostly manuscript accounts and papers relating to collieries in Durham and the North East, 18th/19th centur...

* Vellum Deeds. A group of approximately 30 legal documents, 16th/19th century, including 12 on vellum, leases, feoffments, and other mostly land ...

* Ethiopic prayer book. A manuscript Ethiopic prayer book, probably 19th century, written in brown and some red ink longitudinally on 2 conjoined ...

* Grant of Arms. Manuscript Grant of Arms for John Robinson Kay of Bass Lane House, in the Parish of Bury, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, 11...

* Haig (Douglas, 1861-1928). 1st Earl Haig, Field Marshal of the British Army. Autograph Letter Signed, 'Douglas Haig', General Headquarters, Brit...

Hudson's Bay Company. Auction catalogue for the sale of furs supplied by the Hudson's Bay Company, For Sale by Candle at the London Commercial Sal...

* Huth (Louis). An album of watercolour studies of Damascus & Rhodian Ceramics, circa 1920, 44 fine watercolours on thick wove paper of ceramic pi...

* India Postcards. A collection of approximately 500 postcards of Indian architecture and views, early to mid 20th century, colour and black & whi...

Italian heraldry manuscript. Regole di Blasone compendiate per il Nobilissimo Colleggio di Parma da Allessandro Lampugnani, late 17th century, 99 ...

* Jacobite horn beaker. A horn beaker believed to have been used by Prince Charles Edward Stuart when passing through the parish of Muthell, Perth...

* Jamaican fern doily album. An album of 6 fern doilies, Jamaica, late 19th century, album of 7 octagonal paper leaves, the first leaf with contem...

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Laforge de Vitanval (Leon-Louis). Royal Amour. Drame historique en cinq actes et six tableaux, par le Prince Laforge de Vitanval. Piece commencé e...

[Langhorne, Richard, 1654-1679]. Considerations touching ye great Question of the Kings Right in dispenseing gen[er]ally with Penall Lawes, manusc...

Leeds School of Medicine. Manuscript lecture notes compiled by F.M. Dowsland, pupil to Mr Wildsmith, c. 1832, containing neatly written notes on m...

* Leicestershire Tudor Wills. A brief note of all the lands given by will between 31 December 1566 and 25 June 1569 extracted from the books of wi...

* Limehouse Declaration. The Declaration for Social Democracy, 25 January 1981, printed statement on thick parchment paper, signed at foot by Roy ...

Manuscript Amateur Periodical. Here, There & Everywhere, a quarterly handwritten magazine in connection with the 'George Grace Branch' of 'The Scr...

* Medieval Derbyshire Deed. Grant, 5 October 1463, vellum deed in Latin, John Blohorne, son of William Blohorne of Osmaston (Osmondeston) near Der...

Medieval Iberian History. An anonymous and untitled English notebook, dated '1834' on front pastedown, written in a neat right-sloping hand in rep...

* Motor Boats. An archive of approximately 200 documents, including over 100 original drawings, plus plans printed on linen including some with pr...

* Mullaly (Terence, 1927-2020). A large archive of approximately 3,000 photographs of paintings and artworks, c. 1960s and later, all black & whit...

Napoleonic Era Newspapers. A good collection of approximately 180 English newspapers, c. 1781-1826 and a few later, the majority from the Napoleon...

* Pedigree Roll. The Genealogy of the ancient families of Gale of Whitehaven & Braddyll of Conishead as connected with the families of Clifford, C...

* Political Posters. Vote Labour. "You could not make war without us / you cannot make peace without us!", printed by David Allen & Son, London: L...

* Postcards. A collection of approximately 1,000 postcards, early to mid-20th century, an assortment of colour and black and white including some ...

* Royal Menus & Invitations. A group of printed royalty ephemera, 1903/1948, including printed menu cards with embossed gilt royal crests at Winds...

* Royalty Scrap Album. C. H. Hawkins' Royal Letter and Scrapbook, 1884, a handsomely bound album of autograph letters addressed to and from C. H. ...

* Russian Bonds. A group of approximately 100 Imperial Russian government 4 per cent bonds of the Dvinsk-Vitebsk Railroad, 1894, each for £20, pri...

* Russian Posters. A group of approximately 24 Russian posters, c. 1970s/1990s, including some published by Plakat, Moscow, and some published in ...

* Slavery. A Bill of Sale for enslaved girl Ph[o]ebe, seven years old, Middlesex, New England, 24 October 1759: 'Know all men by thrse present tha...

* South Africa Diary. Manuscript diary of Corporal George Lovett, Royal Army Service Corps, 18 September 1907 to 11 March 1913, travelling out on ...

* South American Diary. A manuscript diary of a voyage to the Amazon, kept by a sailor working in the engine room of the PSS Morana, during three ...

* The Great Palestinian Revolt. A collection of 26 Autograph Letters Signed by Lt. Charles Meredith Inigo-Jones (1912-2009), Palestine, May to Dec...

* Titanic Relief Fund. A cheque (No. K. 18642) from The Capital & Counties Bank Ltd, for six guineas to Mrs Ada Mary West, 28 April 1917, with the...

* Treaty of Amiens. An Autograph Letter Signed from Francis Webb, secretary to Francis James Jackson during the negotiations for the Treaty of Ami...

* Manuscript Menu.‘Tuesday November 10 day 1663 A diner For Mr Glandfild’,written in brown ink with a 4-line paragraph beneath the heading, listin...

* Vellum Deeds. A group of 32 assorted vellum deeds, 16th/18th century, including a quitclaim, 1656, signed by Richard Catesby, a marriage settlem...

* Wentworth (Thomas, 1593-1641). 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman. Two contemporary scribal copies of speeches by the Earl of Strafford, c...

* William IV (1765-1837). King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1830-37. Document Signed, 'William R', Saint James's, 16 Decemb...