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'Annales o historia de Madrid que hasta el ano de 1658 escrivio D. Antonio de Leon Pinelo'.

Findings in a suit brought by the monastry of Santa Catalina de Sena (in Madrid) against the Conde de Camarata.

Transcripts of accounts of journeys of Spanish nobility and royalty, journeys include: Isabel Clara Eugenia of Austria from Milan to Flanders, 1599; entry of Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain, into Ferrara 13 November 1598; Philip III of Spain to Madrid in 1599; Archduke Albert of Austria, Count of Flanders, from Barcelona to Genoa in 1599; entry of Phillip III into Valencia in 1599.

Privileges for Madrid including transcript of letters of Alfonso IX of Castile, dated 31 January 1214.

Communications from Sir John Sinclair to Holroyd concerning the Board of Agriculture.

Manuscript volume containing transcripts of treatises by Dr Charles Davenant on coinage, commerce and finance, 1695-1696. Includes 'A memorial concerning the coine of England', addressed to Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, 1695.

Unpublished essay entitled 'Hotel Continental' by Arthur William Symons, c 1924.

Manuscript volumes containing transcripts of treatises by Dr Charles Davenant on coinage, commerce and finance, 1695-1696 , notably 'An essay on public virtue', addressed to Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury, and Sidney Godolphin, [1696].

A medical notebook complied by Augustus Desiré Waller in the late 19th century with numerous citations from German medical authorities, a list of Waller's own publications, printed papers by him and other printed notices of his experiments.

Annotated, inter-leaved copies of some of De Morgan's works, including letters and newspaper cuttings. The works include: 'Formal Logic', 1847 (2 volumes); 'Syllabus of a proposed system of logic', 1860; 'Arithmetical books from the invention of printing to the present time etc', 1847.

Letters of Herbert Foxwell, officials of the University of London and members of the Goldsmith's Company with Sir Walter S. Prideaux, Clerk of the Goldsmith's Company, 1901-1916, generally relating to the library of economic literature, most notably its transfer to the University of London.

Four letters from the historian Albert Frederick Pollard to Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, written between April to July 1942, concerning mainly articles on parliamentary history written by Pollard for the English Historical Review.

A volume giving information on the quantity and value of goods imported and exported to and from England, 1696-1701. The volume has the book plate of John Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield.

Personal correspondence of Charles Lahr, 1925-1970, including references to Lahr's family and politics, and business correspondence relating to the Blue Moon Press and ordering books. Correspondents include: Rhys Davies; Guy Alfred; Pearl Binder; Hugo Dewar; Christopher Grieve; Oswell Blakeston.

Papers of the Robert Fellowes, 1798-1845, comprising manuscripts of his autobiography, 'Common Sense Truths', 1844 (MS255); A Picture of Christian Philosophy, 1798 (MS256); and notes for a projected work on religion or philosophy, written by Robert Fellows, circa 1845 (MS257).

Mainly comprising letters sent to Charles Lahr by various writers.

Consists of 4 hard-bound scrapbooks with some handwritten notes and typescript notes of sittings with mediums of various circles, for example Mark's Tey circle in Essex, 1928-1967. Some letters and press cuttings are enclosed.

Letter, 1960, from James Baxter to John Pocock, thanking him for the review of his two plays, The Wide Open Cage, and Jack Winter's Dream.

Newsletter from The Hague, 1760.

Copy of the newspaper, The Post Boy. Includes letter to Lady Rokeby of Northallerton, Yorkshire.

Letter from John Tayler to a Mrs Marshall describing how he and his family are settling in to Lincoln, 1924.

The Forth Bridge Railway Company: Letter to Challinor and Company, solicitors, 1899; interest warrants, 1913-1927.

Letters and cards by Rose Macaulay to Eric Gillett, editor and publisher, c1932-c1939.

Admission book of St Peter's Sunday School, 1913, comprising a list of students in class 3; details of teaching materials; details of payments for teachers; and the liturgy for Church of England Sunday Schools.

W North collection, 1874-[1926], comprising a Leeds parliamentary election poster titled "Reaction versus Disunion", 1874; a report on potato disease by Robert Veitch and Son with sketches of vegetables, possibly by Veitch, 1892; and a children's poster titled "A Pageant of London", c 1926.

French revolutionary pamphlets collection comprises pamphlets by the Interior Ministry, the Police Ministry and other official bodies in the French republic. Pamphlet by the Chief of Police Sotin warns citizens that the enemies of the revolution are regrouping (c1794). A pamphlet of 1795 also urges vigilance.

Underdown ecclesiastical architecture and design collection, c 1760-1901, (bought from H. W. Underdown) includes: reproduction of print of Witham Friary (1760); print of drawing by Catton of Cromer, 1798; plate of engravings of arms and seals of Prior and Convent of St Saviour, Bermondsey, 1821; drawing of brass monument in North Mimms church (1823); photolithographs of monumental brasses in Norfolk and Westminster Abbey (1890s). Collection also includes prints of J. M. W. Turner watercolours painted at Farnley Hall.

Papers of John Urpeth Rastrick including memoranda, calculations and diagrams, including estimates for iron arch for Stratford-upon-Avon Railway Bridge; for a roof for William Foster; gasworks at Kidderminster; recipe for brass lacquer; lists of materials of six-horse Boulton and Watts engine, and of the contents of packing boxes, with diagrams of each item entered; notes, specifications and sketches for the Stratford and Moreton Railway; and detailed descriptions, statistics and sketches of bridges, railways and engines. Enclosing the following items: (i-ii) 2 sheets of rough calculations. (iii) Card bearing printed statistics of the Burnton and Shields Railway; annotated in MS and signed by Benjamin Thompson (23 January 1829). (iv) Printed wrapper sent from the Office of Ordnance to Messrs J Bradley and Co, [?at] Foster, Rastrick and Co Ironworks, Stourbridge; used for rough calculations and draft accounts in MS.

'Specification of the workmanship for the Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway', the specification itself is not in John Urpeth Rastrick's hand, but it includes notes added to the text by him. His signature appears on the dorse of the fly-leaf, with the date of 16 Oct 1829 and a note: 'the first specification for a railway that was ever made'.

Specification for Leeds and Selby Railway, contracts numbered 1 and 2, Sep 1830. This specification was owned by Rastrick but may not have been created by him.

Papers of John Urpeth Rastrick, 1830-1832, including valuations, lists of properties, calculations, sketches, estimates and plans for the Birmingham and Liverpool Railway [the Brimingham & Basford Railway and the Wolverhampton Branch), bound into one volume. In the hands of Rastrick and others, most items endorsed by Rastrick.

Includes 2 letters to Rastrick at the Waterloo Hotel, Liverpool: (a) leaves 52-53 - from Wiliam Trubshaw, Forton (near Newport, Shropshire) (17 February 1831); (b) leaves 54-55 - from John Barker, Wolverhampton (12 February 1831).

John Urpeth Rastrick's accounts for New Haw Farm [?and Sayes Court Farm], including wages paid out, entered into a volume entitled: 'The Useful Memorandum ... for 1851'.

Manuscript volume containing papers relating to William Wood and the minting of halfpence and farthings for Ireland, 1724-1725, comprising a copy of a satire on Wood entitled 'A full and true account of the solemn procession to the gallows at the execution of William Wood Esquire', which is a copy of part of a work which has been attributed to Jonathan Swift; and printed material, namely M B Drapier [i.e. Jonathan Swift], A letter to the shop-keepers...concerning the brass half-pence coined by Mr Woods (Dublin, 1724), By the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland. A proclamation...[beginning] Wheras a wicked and malicious pamphlet, 27 Oct 1724, [Jonathan Swift], Seasonable advice. Since a bill..., 11 Nov 1724, The presentment of the Grand-Jury of...Dublin, 28 Nov 1724, [R Lindsay], A letter from a friend to the Right Honourable [Chief Justice Whitshed], 1 Dec 1724, and A second letter from a friend to the Right Honourable, 4 Jan 1725. All the items are bound in a volume lettered 'Wood's Irish Coinage. MSS 1724'.

Copy of Augustus de Morgan's 'On the symbols of logic, the theory of the syllogism and in particular of the copula and the application of the theory of probabilities to some questions of evidence', published as a memoir in the Cambridge Philosophical Transaction.

Unpublished copy of Augustus de Morgans 'On some logical difficulties of language'. " Wants revision Jan 1 / 68" is written at the top of folio 2.

John Urpeth Rastrick's surviving diaries and financial records, and other notebooks, 1805-1854.

Spaccio della Bestia Trionfante. Proposto da Giove, Effetuato dal Consiglio, Revelato da Mercurio, Recitato da Sophia, Udito da Saulino, Registrato dal Nolano, Diviso in tre dialoghi, Subdiviso in tre parti e Consecrato al Molto Illustre ed Eccellente Cavaliero Signore Philippo Sidneo. Stampato in Parigi. MDLXXXIII.

'A Coppy of a letter Conceived to bee writt to the late Duke of Buckingham when hee first became a favourite to K. James. By Sir Francis Bacon. Conteyning some advises to the Duke for his Better direction in that eminent place of the Favourite drawne from him at the entreaty of the Duke himselfe'. This is the second, fuller, version of the letter, not the text of the quarto edition of 1661.

Correspondence and papers of Augustus De Morgan, principally relating to De Morgan's appointment to the Chair of Mathematics at London University (University College London) in 1828 and to his resignation therefrom in 1831. Includes letters to De Morgan from Edward Turner, Leonard Horner, Warden of the College, and Dionysus Lardner, and drafts of De Morgan's memoranda to the authorities of the University during his dispute with them.

Manuscript of a poem, Catullus, c1900 (manuscript 324) by Arthur William Symons.

Papers of John Urpeth Rastrick, 1811-1847, comprising a miscellany of correspondence (including drafts of copies of outgoing letters), with notes, engineering drawings and some financial papers (costings, receipts and invoices). Many of the notes and calculations are written in Rastrick's private cipher. Major correspondents include the London shipping iron merchants Henckell and Du Buisson; most of the letters were dispatched to or from London or the industrial areas of South Wales and the West Midlands.

Certification of the Chaves Echavarri Y Vidal family's nobility issued by Juan Alphonso de Guerra y Sandoval to Philip V of Spain, 1733.

Copies of deeds and other documents effecting the transfer and redemption of an annuity paid to Dona Catalina Mexia and Dona Ysabel de Castro originally to Anastasia de la Pena and subsequently to the Cofradia de el santissimo sacramento y Nuestra Senora de la Minerva of the parish church of St. Martin, Madrid, 1611-1616.

Three Archiepiscopal letters making appointments to the Chaplainship of Nuestra Senora de Atocha de Madrid.

Tumulto del dia 28 de Abril, del Ano 1699: representacion del Conde de Oropesa (al Rey); y la Respuesta, o Glossa, sobre la representacion del Conde.

Thirty Years War: Copie de la Declaration de Guerre Contre la Couronne de France faicte en Espagne, au nom de Roy; Declaration de son Alteze Touchant la Guerre Contre la Couranne de France.

Vida y muerte de D. Rodrigo Calderon.

Estados de la casa real de Espana y demas ramos. Y Nueua planta empezada a practicarse el ano de 1719 en el Ministerio del Cardenal Alveroni. Y en la Yntendencia gen. de Don Joachin de Barrenechea.

'Verdadera vida del sutil Duende critico de Madrid, Fr. Manuel de San Jose, Carmelita descalzo: El Duende Politico que da Cuenta de los presentes negocios, y anuncia los futuros de esta Monarquia ano de 1735'.

Elemens de Finances collection, [1690-1710], comprises an anonymous handwritten treatise dealing with the earnings and expenses of the kingdom - inferred to be France - ("cinq grosses fermes") and its administration. It also deals with financial administration in general.