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A work entitled A Politike Discourse. Or Dialogue between a Knight of the Commons-howse of Parliament; And a Gent: ...by Sir John Stradling (1563-1637), 1625, with a preface signed by the author and dedicated to Lord William, Earl of Pembroke (1580-1630).

A translation, with several sketches and some decorative borders, by ten-year-old Selina Fitzroy Birch, of a work on the antiquities of Athens. It was dedicated, November 1779, by the translator to Mrs Thrale, afterwards Mrs Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821), after their meeting in Tunbridge Wells, October 1779.

One of three volumes containing a journal of a tour, 1831, through Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Durham, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, Cheshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire, illustrated with numerous engraved prints and maps.

Press cuttings relating to the visit to North America in 1925-1926 of the Mountain Ash (Glamorgan) Male Voice Choir, conducted by T. Glyndwr Richards.

A collection of signatures and franks, mainly of English interest, and including those of politicians, members of the peerage, etc.

A commonplace book kept by A. D. Vaughan, c. 1819, containing miscellaneous extracts in prose and verse.

A brief journal of a tour from London to the West of England and Wales, 2 June - 25 July 1743.

An account book, 1856-1866, kept by Moses Williams, Calvinistic Methodist minister, New Milford, Pembrokeshire, containing personal and chapel accounts and texts and dates of sermons preached at various places in South Wales, 1864-1866.

An incomplete autograph letter, ?1753, from Goronwy Owen (1723-1769) to Lewis Morris (1701-1765), enclosing Cywydd y Calan.

The second of two volumes containing a record kept by Robert Jones, 4 Garth Terrace, Portmadoc of the texts of sermons preached by Calvinistic Methodist preachers, possibly at Portmadoc, 1853-1890.

One leaf (which appears to have been used at one time in the binding of a volume) of a document which would seem to be a copy of a manifesto by a French king - possibly Louis XIII or Henri IV - at the conclusion of a military campaign - possibly one of the French religious wars - in which he stresses his lack of funds with which to pay his Swiss mercenaries, repair fortifications and maintain his household, with notes by Egerton B. Phillimore (1856-1937).

A work by H. Marshall, Dolgarrog entitled A Description and History of the Mid-Conway Vale, mainly relating to the parishes of Eglwys Fach, the Abbey, Dolgarrog, Caerhun and Llanbedr.

Over thirty autograph letters, 1884-1885, from Brinley Richards (1819-1885) to J. P. Davies, Baptist minister of ?Caerphilly, mainly relating to Welsh music.

Copies of Drych y Cristion: neu Gadwedigol Ffydd Wedi ei Datguddio ... (Dublin, 1766), Cydymaith Diddan ... (Chester, 1766) and Diddanwch Teuluaidd ... (London, 1763), bound together, with poems by Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llewelyn Fychan, Edmwnd Prys, Iolo Goch, etc., added in manuscript.

A copy of 'A Survey of the Manor of Mould with the Rights Membrs and Appurtenances thereof in the County of fflint late parcell of the possessions of James late Earle of Derby . . . 1652'; and of 'Assessmt of ye Parish of Mould to ye 3d Aid Anno 1698'.

An incomplete transcript of 'Chronica Principum Walliae' or 'Brut y Tywysogion', probably based on the text in 'Llyfr Coch Hergest' and bearing a close resemblance to the text found in Peniarth MS. 212, and a transcript of another chronicle from Cadwalydr Vendigeid to A.D. 1565.

'The Golden Key', being religious discourses and meditations.

A warrant of the Privy Council, March 14, 1601/2, authorising baron Buckhurst, Lord High Treasurer of England, to pay to Sir John Vaughan, or to his assign, Griffith Lloyd, the sum of three hundred and fifty pounds, being the charge of arming, 'apparelling', and transporting one hundred men from Carmarthenshire for military service in Ireland.

One of four volumes containing a full account of A Universal Alphabet devised by William Jones, Merthyr Tydfil, 1923, with letters relating thereto, illustrative examples, etc.

One of four volumes containing a full account of A Universal Alphabet devised by William Jones, Merthyr Tydfil, 1923, with letters relating thereto, illustrative examples, etc.