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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 Island.
Healers of Our Age: Photography and Commentary by Yousuf Karsh
Acquired in honour of Michel Sadelain
The Chemistry We Use by Burton L. Hawk
Acquired in honour of Dr Kenrick Lewis
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 WunderCabinet by Barbara Hodgson and Claudia Cohen
Acquired in honour of Peggy Garritty
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.
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."
The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes by John Gerarde
Acquired in honour of Fred Van Goor
The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon
Acquired in honour of Richard Sutton