(1), (2). HORACE: Facsimile (Vol. II) of Florence Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana MS. Pluteo XXXIV. I, containing six works of Horatius Flaccus (Quintus); 10th-11th cent. With a commentary (Vol. 1) 'L'Orazio Laurenziano già di Francesco Petrarca', by Enrico Rostagno. 1933.
MARIE ANTOINETTE: Rotographs of documents written or signed by Marie Antoinette, formerly in the possession of the donor (see Sotheby's salecat., 24-25 Jan. 1955, lots 286, 287); circ. 1783-1792 and n.d. Presented by W. Westley Manning, Esq.
EDWARD VI: Photographic facsimile of the Foundation Charter of King Edward's School, Birmingham; 2 Jan. 5 Edw. VI [1552]. Presented by the Governors of the School
SLAVONIC BIBLE: The New Testament in the version of St Alexis, Patriarch of Moscow. Facsimile of the 14th-cent. MS. preserved in the Chudov Monastery in the Kremlin. With introduction by Leontius, Metropolitan of Moscow. The MS. is said to be in the handwriting of the translator, St Alexis, a fa...
BRASS RUBBINGS: Rotographs of rubbings of sepulchral brasses made by Arthur Bryan I'Anson from churches in co. Kent (arranged alphabetically under the name ofthe parish), Hatfield Peverell, co. Essex, and Long Melford, co. Suff. See also Add. MS. 43783. Presented by Arthur Bryan I'Anson, Esq.
NELSON: Rotographs of documents relating to Horatio, Viscount Nelson in the possession of the Corporation of Lloyd's. Presented by Warren Royal Dawson, F.R.S.E., F.R.S.L., F.S.AScot., Honorary Librarian to the Corporation of Lloyds.
BULGARIAN ILLUMINATIONS: Les Miniatures de L'Évangile du Roi Jean Alexandre à Londres. Add. MS. 39627 of the British Museum. Edited, with introduction, discussion of other manuscript Gospels illuminated in the same style, and description of the plates by Bogdan D. Filov. 134 collotype and 5 colo...
AUSTRALIA: Photographic facsimiles (6) of the deeds of purchase from native chiefs by John Batman of land in Australia, including the sites of Melbourne and Geelong, from the originals preserved in the Public Library of Victoria and in the possession of Messrs Harwood and Pincoott, solicitors, o...