A New Testament in Greek (Cambridge, 1632), with a contemporary embroidered binding bearing the arms of Charles I, and the initials C.R.

An incunable (the works of Aristophanes, printed by Aldo Manuzio in 1498) in a 16th-century gold-tooled binding, bearing several marks of Jean Brinon, sieur de Villaines and conseiller du Roy. Both covers bear a similar arrangement of devices, a monogram in each corner with a central medallion.

This red morocco binding contains the second edition of part 1 of the score of Purcell's Orpheus Britannicus (1706) and the first ed

A velvet bound volume containing a 1633 folio edition of the authorized version of the Bible, together with the Book of Common Prayer and a metrical version of the Psalms from 1632. The fittings are of silver and include cornerpieces, clasps and an inscribed plaque bearing the legend "Ex dono Mariae Allott viduae 1636" ("Given by Mary Allott, widow, 1636").

This Venetian edition of the works of Ovid (1474), has a beautifully illuminated border to its opening page. This would have been added by hand after printing, and incorporates the arms of the Medici family at the bottom. The volume apparently belonged to Lorenzo de Medici, the Florentine statesman and artistic patron (1449-1492).

This copy of Helkiah Crooke's work on human anatomy, Mikrokosmographia (1618), bears the Wentworth arms stamped in gilt on both covers, and the inscription "T. Strafforde" just inside the front cover, and belonged to the first Earl of Strafford, who was Charles I's Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and chief councillor.

A copy of Vossius' Commentarius de rebus pace belloque gestis Dom. Fabiani senioris (Leiden, 1628) with a gold-tooled binding bearing the arms of Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick. Warwick started his career as a founding member of the Bermudas Company and actively pursued his and English interests against the Spanish in the Carribean.

The autograph in Greek of Sir Richard Morison, humanist scholar, protege of Thomas Cromwell, propagandist for Henry VIII, and then ambassador to the German court of Charles V for Edward VI. Whilst in this latter position Morison employed Roger Ascham as his secretary. He returned to England but fled into exile on the accession of Mary I, and died in Strasbourg.

The arms of George Carew, Earl of Totnes, stamped and painted on the cover of a volume bound in vellum, and containing two medieval works on German history printed in 1609. Carew was a soldier and administrator in Ireland, participating in the suppression of the Ulster rebellion led by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone in 1601, and becoming Lord President of Munster. He was also a friend of Sir Walter Ralegh, and pleaded unsuccessfully for the latter's life with James I.

Gold-stamped arms of William Douglas, Duke of Queensberry, Justice General of Scotland, later High Treasurer of Scotland, before becoming Royal Commissioner for James VII & II, from the binding of Les Cesars de l'empereur Julien (Paris, 1683).

Given by Herbert Somerton Foxwell.