HÉKÉKYAN PAPERS. Vols. I.-VIII. JOURNALS, including an autobiographical sketch of his early years and intermingled in the later period with records of excavations. illustrated by sketches. Contents:-
Vols. XX.-XXII. NOTE-BOOKS, written probably circ. 1868-1872, fair-copied, numbered i-x, of chronological data and remarks. Three volumes. Large octavo.
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Antiquities: Correspondence, drawings, etc., of Hékékyan Bey relating to Egyptian archaeology: 1851-1874.
Vols. XXIII., XXIV. THREE TREATISES or drafts of a treatise on "Geochronology," or a system of Egyptian and Biblical chronology based on a theoretical relation of the Egyptian cubit to the secular variations of surface-level in Egypt. Quarto and Folio.
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Antiquities: Correspondence, drawings, etc., of Hékékyan Bey relating to Egyptian archaeology: 1851-1874.
Vols.I.-IV. DEEDS, settlements, wills, abstracts of title, law-cases, briefs, depositions, etc., relating to the manors of Long Itchington and Balsall, co. Warwick, originally in the possession of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and after his death the subject of many lawsuits by Lettice his widow, the children of Sir Robert Dudley his son, the Sidney family, and others, till their acquisition in accordance with a decree of Chancery in 1663 b Richard Newdigate, sergeant-at-law [cr. Baronet...
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Itchington, Long county Warwickshire: Deeds law papers,etc., relating to the manor, etc.: 1576-1823. Balsall, Warwickshire: Papers relating to the manor: 1576-1823.
MICKLETHWAITE COLLECTIONS. Vols. I.-IV. (ff. 387, 392, 358, 386). Notes and extracts in the collector's hand, largely from printed sources, and cuttings from antiquarian and literary papers, including also a considerable number of engravings, photographs, drawings, tracings and plans, with some correspondence. The names of the writers of letters appear in the Index. Arranged alphabetically under subject headings (a few not ecclesiological), as follows:-
MICKLETHWAITE COLLECTIONS. Vols. V., VI. (ff. 242, 277). Notes and plans of Saxon churches, with some photographs, etc., and correspondence, mostly connected with two printed papers read by the collector before the Archaeological Institute, and printed in the Archeological Journal, Dec. 1896 and Dec. 1898, which appear at f. 1 of Vol. V. and f. 100 of Vol. VI., and are followed in each case by the notes, etc., on the various churches arranged so far as possible in the order in which they occ...