Rare & Special Collections pre 1871 Gallery
From old treasures to literary classics, the items in this gallery show some of the historic milestones that have shaped culture, up until the Library was established.
Rare & Special Collections pre 1871 Gallery
From old treasures to literary classics, the items in this gallery show some of the historic milestones that have shaped culture, up until the Library was established.
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Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, 1623 (the First Folio)
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Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Civitates orbis terrarum (1572-1618)
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, 1789
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Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Description de toutes les nations de l’empire de Russie, c.1776-1777
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Hocus Pocus Junior, 1634
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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605-16
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Heures a l’Usaige de Rome Tout au Long sans Riens Requerir, c. 1516
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Panoramic drawing of the funeral procession of Anne of Cleves, 1557
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Clara Chilcott, Lucy, or the Sad Consequences of Disobedience, 3rd edn (1840)
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Manuscript of William Langland, Piers Plowman, early 15th century
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Auserlesene Schnecken, Muschelen und andre Schaalthiere by Franz Michael Regenfuss, 1758
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Theorica Musica by Franchinus Gaffurius, 1492
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The Resolution of the Women of London to the Parliament printed for William Watson, 1642
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The Game of Chess by Jacobus de Cessolis, translated and printed by William Caxton (1483) translated by William Caxton, 1483
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Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (Leipzig, 1838-9)
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Cicero, Opera (1642)
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University of London Supplemental Charter, 1867
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Sylva Sylvarum or A Natural Historie in Ten Centuries by Francis Bacon, 1627
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One of the Grieve Family Collection of Theatre Designs c. 1813-1857
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Holograph manuscript of Don Juan by Lord Byron, 1823
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Albertus Magnus, De animalibus (1495)