George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949 – first edition

Conte Francesco Leopoldo Cicognara: Storia della scultura… 1823-1825 – definitive, revised and enlarged ed.

T.E. Lawrence: Secret Despatches from Arabia, 1939 – 1st, limited ed.

Samuel Pepys: Memoirs, 1828 – first octavo edition

Winston Churchill: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 1956-1958 – first edition

Cecil Roth: A Short History of the Jewish People, 1948 – illustrated edition

C.P. Snow: Corridors of Power, 1964 – first edition

‘Carmichaelia solandri’ from Joseph Banks’ Florilegium (1769/1986)