Special Collections

Book of the Month

2012

February
The Natural History of Parrots

January
Examen Concilii Tridentini

2011

December
Lancelot his Book

November
Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine del Capitano Agostino Ramelli

October
Life in London, or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom

September
Caii Suetonii Tranquilli Opera

August
Orbis Sensualium Pictus

July
Margarita Philosophica

June
Purchas his Pilgrimes: in Five Books

May
Great Exhibition 1851: Reports by the Juries

April
A collection of Spanish printed documents, including items relating to the Spanish Match

March
A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues

February
Book of Valentines

January
Silva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions

2010

December
Nederlantsche Oorloghen, Beroerten, ende Borgerlijcke Oneenicheyden ...

November
Calendarium

October
A Mirour for Magistrates

September
A Treatise of the Calculus of Finite Differences

August
The History of Col. Parke’s Administration whilst he was Captain-General and Chief Governor of the Leeward Islands

July
Tychonis Brahe Dani, Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata

June
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

May
Poems in English: With Illustrations by William Blake

April
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

March
The Elements of Armories

February
P. Ovidii Nasonis … Metamorphoses oder Verwandlung

January
The First-[Third] Volume of the Works of Mr. William Congreve

2009

December
Le Pistole di Cicerone ad Attico

November
Adam Bede

October
The Bibliomania, or, Book madness

September
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

August
Rasselas

July
Ausserordentliches Gespräch im Reiche der Todten

June
A Tale of Two Cities

May
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

April
A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople

March
The Works of Mr. William Shakespear

February
Francisci Baconi ... De Sapientia Veterum

January
The Fables of Aesop

2008

December
Mollie Fancher, the Brooklyn Enigma

November
Emilia Wyndham

October
Legenda Aurea

September
Russia: Being a Description of the Character, Manners, Customs, Dress, Diversions and Other Peculiarities of the Different Nations Inhabiting the Russian Empire

August
A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft

July
The Complete Fortune Teller, or, True Book of Fate and The True Fortune Teller, or, Universal Book of Fate

June
The Microcosm of London, vol. 1

May
Roscius Anglicanus, or, An historical Review of the Stage

April
Quin's Rudiments of Book-Keeping: Comprised in Six Plain Cases

March
The Wind in the Willows

February
A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, to my Lord *****

January
The History of St Pauls Cathedral in London from its Foundation until these Times

2007

December
The Cat's Tail: being the history of Childe Merlin: a tale

November
The Interpreter, or, Booke Containing the Signification of Words

October
Le Morte Darthur

September
Book of Hours

August
Odes

July
Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft

June
The Historie of the Foure-Footed Beastes

May
A Discourse upon an Union of the Two Kingdoms of England and Scotland

April
A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, Addressed to the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of Yorkshire

March
The Life of Dr Beilby Porteus

February
Mundus Alter et Idem

January
Comments on the Commentators of Shakespear

2006

December
Jap Herron: a novel written from the Ouija board

November
Pennant and his Welsh Landscapes: Selected Readings from A Tour in Wales (1778-1784)

October
Lord Byron and his Detractors

September:
Puck of Pook's Hill

August
The Patriot: or, Political, Moral, and Philosophical Repository

July
Of the Church, Fiue Bookes

June
Lawton Parry Papers

May
Wholesome Advice against the Abuse of Hot Liquors, Particularly of Coffee, Chocolate, Tea, Brandy, and Strong-Waters

April
Letters to a Young Lady

March
Nightmare tales

February
The Chronicle of Queen Fredegond

January
Notebook containing records of dreams and visions with interpretation

2005

December
The Magic Lantern; or, World as it Goes

November
Kipps: the Story of a Simple Soul

October
The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon: of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane

September
The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem

August
A Compendium of Phrenology

July
Algoritmus Linealis

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