Featured items

The Special Collections contain a wealth of rare and interesting items. This regular feature highlights the variety of our rare book and archive holdings. All features are in PDF format.

Latest featured item

 

Nancy Astor: letters from TE Lawrence and GB Shaw

 

Previous featured items

• 1851: or, The adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys and family
• Rudolph Ackermann, The microcosm of London, 1808-10 
• A Book of Hours Horae, c.1420
• Christmas: pictures by children, 1929
• Photographs of artists 1912-1923 by A.L. Coburn and E.O. Hoppé
• Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus, 1566
• Petrus de Crescentius, Ruralia commoda, 1471
• Documents from the Salò Republic
• John Wallis Dodgson, The War and us, manuscript diary, 1939-1950
• James Gibbs's Illustrations of popular literature
• Kathleen Hale, Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) buys a farm, 1972
• Thomas Hardy, We field-women
• Owen Jones, The grammar of ornament, 1856
• Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia universalis, 1650
• T.E. Lawrence, Reader's report, 1929
• Luigi Mayer, Views in Egypt, 1801
• Micrographia
• Thomas Morley, A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke, 1597
• Old England 
• Andrea Pozzo, Rules and examples of perspective proper for painters and architects
• Records of Huntley & Palmers
• Bernard Spencer, The Twist in the Plotting : twenty five poems, 1960
• Edward Topsell, The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents, 1658
• Torquato Tasso, La Gierusalemme liberata, 1590
• Two women botanical artists and their most famous works
• Oscar Wilde, Salome: a tragedy in one act, 1894
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz