Atlas of the Counties of England and Wales by Christopher Saxton, London 1574-79
The Nobel Prize Book awarded to George Bernard Shaw in 1926 in the Museum Room at Shaw's Corner
Title page of William Chambers "Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils" (London 1757) from the Springhill Library collections
Bookplate of James Stewart Esq, of Killymoon Castle
Binding of "Liber Sacrosancti Evangelii de Jesu Christo" (Vienna 1555), the first Bible printed in Syriac, with signature of George Walker (1645?-1690) Protestant leader in the siege of Derry, 1689; Springhill Library collections, Co
Close view of Thomas Bewick's leather bound books on shelves at Cherryburn, including two volumes of Bewick's Birds, tooled and gilded and The Fables of Aesop
Close view of part of the Library shelves showing some of the collection of books on travel and exploration at Calke Abbey
Close up of open 1890's"The Necessaries & Miscellaneous Account" book
A close up of a contract between Samuel Greg, owner of Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, and a worker named Cook, dated May 1796
Title page of Mythologia Aesopica: In Qua Aesopi Fabulae, (London,1682) part of the Springhill Library collections
Liber Sacrosancti Evangelii de Jesu Christo (Vienna 1555), the first Bible printed in Syriac, with signature of George Walker (1645?-1690) Protestant leader in the siege of Derry, 1689; Springhill Library collections, Co
Extract from Rene Descartes "Meditationes de Prima Philosophia" (Amsterdam, 1685), with manuscript notes from a lecture by Burchardus de Volder (1643-1709), part of the Springhill Library collections, Co. Londonderry
Page from Johannes Buxtorf "Lexicon Chaldaicum et Syriacum" (Basel, 1622) with early manuscript annotations in Latin and Hebrew, part of the Springhill Library collections
Pages from "Tuba Stentoro-Phonica, an Instrument of Excellent Use as well at Sea, as at Land" by Samuel Morland, London 1672, an account of a speaking trumpet presented to Charles II in 1671; part of the Springhill Library collections
Title page from "Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil" by Thomas Hobbs, London, 1651, part of the Springhill Library collections, Co. Londonderry.
Extract from Thomas Hobbs "Leviathan" (London 1651) with manuscript notes in the hand of an early owner, David Conyngham, part of the Springhill Library collections, Co. Londonderry.
Page from Jean Rousseau "Traite de la Viole" (Paris, 1687) with musical notation, part of the Springhill Library collections
Page from "Tuba Stentoro-Phonica, an Instrument of Excellent Use as well at Sea, as at Land" by Samuel Morland, London 1672, an account of a speaking trumpet presented to Charles II in 1671, part of the Springhill Library collections
Title page of The English Irish Dictionary, (Paris, 1732) the first English-Irish Dictionary, with a handwritten inscription and the date 1827, from the Springhill Library collections, Co. Londonderry.
Page from the English Irish Dictionary, (Paris, 1732) part of the Springhill Library collections, Co. Londonderry.
Handwritten inscription "To Alderman James Lennox, 2nd Lord Derry, January 30th, 1709" in the "Collections and Observations Methodiz'd" (Edinburgh, 1709) part of the Springhill Library collections
Handwritten inscription "This is Lady Blesington's Own Book" in Paul Whitehead "Honour. A Satire" (London, 1747), part of the Springhill Library collections, Co. Londonderry.
Title page of Dublin Philharmonic Society "The Te Deum, Jubilate, Anthems, Odes, Oratorios and Serenatas as they are performed by the Philharmonic Society (Dublin) 1741" part of the Springhill Library collections
Prize binding of Trinity College, Dublin, on Adam Smith "An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" (London 1799) part of the Springhill Library collections