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Memoirs of * * * * : Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar, a Reputed Native of Formosa
A memoir published “to undeceive the world” by confessing the circumstances that led to the creation of a “scandalous piece of forgery."
Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare: Including the Tragedy of King Lear and a Small Fragment of Hamlet, from the Original Mss. in the Possession of Samuel Ireland, of Norfolk Street
William Henry Ireland's famous Shakespearean forgery.
The WunderCabinet by Barbara Hodgson and Claudia Cohen
Acquired in honour of Peggy Garritty
Charles Dickens and Gad's Hill Place: Correspondence between Charles Dickens, the Rev. Joseph Hindle, and W.H. Wills, 1856–1857, with Introductory Essay by F.J. Harvey Darton, and Original Drawings by Alicia Darrington
Acquired in honour of Radhe & Krishna Gupta
The Chemistry We Use by Burton L. Hawk
Acquired in honour of Dr Kenrick Lewis
Healers of Our Age: Photography and Commentary by Yousuf Karsh
Acquired in honour of Michel Sadelain
A California Fat-Head
Harris’s The Fishes of North America That Are Captured on Hook and Line (1898) was not limited to freshwater fishes. This attractive plate illustrates the colourful “California Redfish or Fat-Head” which was caught and painted off Catalina…
The Michigan Grayling
This plate shows the now-extinct Michigan Grayling. This fish was once so abundant in Northern Michigan that a town was renamed “Grayling” in its honour, and a commercial train line specialized in bringing folks “up north” to fish for the…
A Pumpkinseed Sunfish
This plate from Harris’s The Fishes of North America That Are Captured on Hook and Line (1898) features the Pumpkinseed Sunfish, a fish of personal significance to me. This species was one of the first fish I captured from a local pond and is…