Recent Additions

Sensationalist conspiracy theories about the death of Lord Kitchener...

The Rotary Press, London, 1926

Benjamin Samuel Williams's first book, 'containing a Brief Description of Upwards of Two Hundred and Sixty Orchidaceous Plants'

Chapman & Hall, London, 1852

Cruises on the Ellesmere and Oxford Canals in pre-war England

Heath Cranton, London, 1921

in the original dustwrapper

Readers Library, London, 1928

Dated December 1902, and mentioning she is busy with panto and rehearsals

Not Published, London, 1902

Lectures and reports from the Vienna Congress of July 1923

Council for the Federation, Amsterdam, 1923

This copy signed and dedicated by translator and editor, Margaret Crosland

Penguin Books, London, 1971

An attractive silk-bound copy of D G Rossetti's sonnet sequence

Ellis and Elvey, London, 1898

From Louis Conard's Standard Collection of British and American Authors series

Louis Conard, Paris, 1915

An early edition of H V Esmond's play

Samuel French Limited, London, 1900

Charles Plater's Principles of International Morality

P S King & Son, London, 1915

The museum's illustrated book for its important Andy Warhol collection

Zoya Museum, Modra, Slovak Republic, 2010

Seven short stories by St John Lucas

William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1913

1969, full leather, with illustrations by Émile Bernard. Printed with ink mixed with gold powder.

Jean de Bonnot, Paris, 1969

With the bookplate of Herbert G Squiers, and rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran of London

The Century Co, London, 1907

With the bookplate of Herbert G Squiers, and rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran of London

The Century Co, New York, 1903

Simon Marsden's photographs and visits to haunted houses and supernatural sites

Webb & Bower, London, 1986

1741, De Montereul's harmonization of the Gospels

Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, Paris, 1741

1727, volume one of L’Abbé de Vertot's history of the political shifts of Rome

Chez Barois, Paris, 1727

Lenotre's history of the French Revolution court, and this copy with D Y Cameron's engraved bookplate for W D S Catalani

Librairie Académique Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1912

1875, second edition, Henry Havard's travels to the Dead Cities of the Zuiderzee

E Plon & Cie, Paris, 1875

1944, edited with notes by folklorist Séamus Ó Duilearga

Folklore of Ireland Society / Talbot Press, Dublin and Cork, 1944

Volume Two: The American Years 1941–1973

Thames and Hudson, London, 2000

1644, vellum, A Summary of German Affairs, regarding the events from the year 1617 to 1643, including the Thirty Years War

Not stated, [Lugdunum Batavorum, Leiden], 1644

1942, signed by John Fernald, and based on his wartime escort duties

Jonathan Cape, London, 1942