This summer, we present a selection of 20 diverse items dating from 1714 – ‘undoubtedly the most popular history of America…’, here bound for Monsieur and Madame de May and later in the travel and exploration library of a diplomat – to a 1990 private press publication on the papyrus plant.




Solís y Ribadeneyra | William Faden’s Map of Ireland | Evelyn’s Life of Mrs Godolphin | Papworth’s armorial
Woodward on Bonaparte’s Park and the Murats | Kipling | Ibsen’s hedda gabler | Bond on Gothic Architecture
Ravenstein on Behaim’s globe | Matthew Arnold from margaret Darwin’s library | Selma Lagerlöf inscribed
T.E. Lawrence | Fellowes on English Madrigal Verse | Thomas Mann inscribed
Robert Gibbings | Leary’s Book Store poster | Royal Air Force Luftpost
elias Ashmole | Pepys’ Diary | The Alembic Press



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