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
Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis, 1472
Previous featured items
- 1851: or, The adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys and family
- Rudolph Ackermann, The microcosm of London, 1808-10
- Photographs of artists 1912-1923 by A.L. Coburn and E.O. Hoppé
- Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus, 1566
- Documents from the Salò Republic
- John Wallis Dodgson, The War and us, manuscript diary, 1939-1950
- Portraits by Joy Finzi
- 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
- Nancy Astor: letters from TE Lawrence and GB Shaw
- Old England
- Poll books
- 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