1. Illuminated Ferial Psalter on vellum, in Latin, German (perhaps Diocese of Trier), c.1250–70

2. Illuminated Antiphonal (Sanctorale), on vellum, in Latin, (Italy, Emilia-Romagna?), 1270–1275

3. Illuminated Carta Executoria de hidalguía for Doctor Andrés Zamudio de Alfaro, on vellum, in Latin and Spanish, issued in Granada, February 1572

4. The Pelican Hours, Book of Hours (Use of Paris), in Latin, on vellum, illuminated by the Master of Jean d’Albret, the Master of the Chronique Scandaleuse, and the Master of the Triumphs of Petrarch (France, Paris), c.1490–1500

5. Illustrated fragment of Der Welsche Gast by Thomasin of Zerklaere, on vellum, in Middle High German, c.1300–50 (Southern? Germany)

6. A miniature from the Decretum Gratiani depicting a baptism and marital vows, on vellum, illuminated by an artist of the Milemete Workshop (England, London?), c.1320–30

9. Illuminated leaf from an Antiphonal with initial D by Berardo da Teramo, on vellum, in Latin, (Italy, Abruzzo), c.1330–1340

10. An illuminated cutting showing a group of ten men at prayer, by Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna, on vellum, (Italy, Bologna), c.1370

11. Leaf from an Antiphonal illuminated by Venturino Mercati depicting Saint Peter holding the keys to Heaven in a historiated initial L, on vellum, in Latin, (Italy, Lombardy or Siena), c.1470

12. Illuminated initial M from a Choirbook depicting a Prophet beneath an unfurling Scroll by the Master of the Archimboldi Missal (fl.1480–1500), on vellum, in Latin, (Italy, Milan), c.1500

13. Lovers in a Garden, a calendar miniature from a Book of Hours, illuminated by Jean Poyer (France, Tours), on vellum, in Latin, c.1490–1500

14. An illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours depicting the Crucifixion by the Master of Guillebert de Mets, on vellum, in Latin, (Southern Netherlands, probably Ghent), c.1420–25

15. An illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours depicting the Adoration of the Magi created by Hans Traut, on vellum, (Germany, Nuremberg), c.1500–1525

16. A collection of three leaves containing neumatic notation in the influential St Gall style, on vellum, in Latin

17. A collection of five Italian leaves containing neumes, on vellum, in Latin, from the 12th century

18. A partial bifolium from a Gradual (Sanctorale) with St Gall neumes, on vellum, in Latin, (Germany, possibly Franconia or Bavaria), mid-11th century

19. A leaf from a noted Breviary, on vellum, in Latin, (northern Spain or southern France), late 12th century

20. Robert Adam | Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian, 1764, first edition

21. Hieronymus Bock | Kreutter buch. Strassburg, 1546, first illustrated edition, contemporary hand-colouring

22. Bernhard von Breydenbach | Die heyligen reyssen gen Jherusalem, Mainz, 1486, first German language edition of the first illustrated travel book, the duc de Luynes' copy

23. Robert Burns | Autograph manuscript poem, "Hae ye heard o' the Witch o' Dundrum"

24. William Byrd—[Lord Burghley] | The Copie of a Letter Sent Out of England, 1588, Byrd's inscribed copy

25. Girolamo Cardano [Thomas Bedingfield, translator] | Cardanus comforte, 1576, rare second edition of the book held by Hamlet during his famous soliloquy

26. Giovanni Domenico Cassini | Theoriae motus cometae anni MDCLXIV [bound with] Lettere astronomiche..., Rome, 1665, two extremely rare and important first editions in one volume

27. Andreas Cellarius | Harmonia macrocosmica seu atlas universalis et novus, Amsterdam, 1708, contemporary hand-colouring

28. Miguel De Cervantes I Don Quixote, Madrid, 1780, 4 volumes, one of the great monuments of Spanish typography

29. Abraham Flemming | A Panoplie of Epistles, 1576

30. Leonhart Fuchs | De historia stirpium, Basel, 1542, "perhaps the most celebrated and beautiful herbal ever published"

31. Raphael Holinshed | The Chronicles, 1586-7, 3 volumes bound in 2, plus further volume of eighteenth-century reprints of cancelled leaves, a quintessential piece of Elizabethan secular scholarship

32. Antoine Phérotée de La Croix | Algemeene Weereld-Beschryving, Amsterdam, 1705, first edition in Dutch, 3 volumes, contemporary hand-colouring, heightened with gold

33. Legal history | A group of printed English Statutes, 32 works in 22 volumes

34. Thomas More | The Debellacyon of Salem and Bizance, 1533, the Foyle copy

35. Thomas More | Workes, 1557, eighteenth-century sprinkled calf gilt, the Chatsworth copy

36. John Palsgrave | L'Esclaircissement de la Langue Francoyse, 1530, the first French grammar and the first French-English dictionary

37. Nicolaus Prevost | Dispensarium... ad aromatarios, Lyon, 1505, an exceptionally rare edition of the first modern handbook for the apothecary

38. Claudius Ptolemaeus | Geographicae enarrationis libri octo, Strassburg, 1525, contemporary Venetian burgundy morocco, including one of the earliest Ptolemaic maps of America

39. Royal Society | Philosophical transactions. Vol.1, 1665-66, [London, 1667], first volume of the oldest continuous journal of a scientific academy, annotated by Charles II's physician William Ramesay

40. Reginald Scot | The discoverie of witchcraft, 1584, modern vellum with clasps, first edition of the first extensive treatment of witchcraft in English

41. Michael Servetus | A manuscript copy of De trinitatis erroribus. France, early eighteenth-century

42. Edmund Spenser | [Complaints, containing sundrie small poems of the worlds vanitie...]. London: Printed for William Ponsonbie, 1590-1591

43. Caspar Stoll | Natuurlyke... der cicaden en wantzen, Amsterdam, 1780-1788, 2 volumes, contemporary green morocco gilt

44. Leonhard Thurneisser | Historia und Beschreibung Influentischer, Elementischer und Natürlicher..., 1578, first German edition, contemporary pigskin, hand-coloured woodcuts

45. François Viète | In artem analyticem isagoge. Ejusdem Ad logisticem speciosum notae priores, Paris, 1631, 2 parts in one volume, an early edition of the first treatise on symbolic algebra (first edition of part 2)

46. Virgil | The Whole XII bookes of the Aeneidos, 1573, nineteenth-century speckled calf by Rivière and Sons

47. Jacobus de Voragine | [Legenda aurea] Dat Duytsche Passionail, Cologne, 1485, part one of two, late-sixteenth-century German blindstamped calf, a rare example with contemporary hand-colouring

48. Robert Wood | Ruins of Palmyra, 1753, [with] Ruins of Balbec, 1757, first editions, 2 volumes in all, the latter owned by Lord Byron's Harrow School housemaster

49. [Jane Austen] | Mansfield Park, 1814, first edition, 3 volumes, the Methven Castle copy

50. Aymard de Banville | Album photographique de la mission remplie en Égypte..., Paris, 1865, an exceptionally rare work from the earliest days of travel photography