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Collection: Fakes, Lies and Forgeries: Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection

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LoBagola: an African savage's own story

The Voyages and travailes of Sir John Mandevile Knight, wherein is set downe the way to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem, as also to the lands of the great Caane, and of Praester John, Inde, and divers other countries

De vera typographiae origine paraenesis; ad sapientissimum virum D. Bernardum a Malinkrot, monasteriensem decanum

Brevis excursus de loco, tempore, & authore inventionis typographiae; ad clarissimum virum Gabrielem Naudaeum, Parisiensem.

Thresor admirable, de la sentence prononcée par Ponce Pilate, contre nostre Sauveur Jesus-Christ

Apparently the first extant printing of the 'Aquila discovery' of a scroll purporting to record the death sentence pronounced by Pilate on Jesus, unearthed in late 1580 and examined by Camillo Borello; the present text may be adapted from his…

An historical and geographical description of Formosa, an island subject to the Emperor of Japan.

Gulliver revived; or, The vice of lying properly exposed. 7th ed., considerably enlarged, and ornamented with twenty explanatory engravings, from original designs

[Eleuterus or Eleutherius, Pope, pseudo.] Concilia, decreta, constitutiones, in re eclesiarum orbis Britannici ... primus hic tomus

Letters falsely attributed to the British 'King Lucius'.

Drawing headed 'Lemanis Portus' [Lympne, Kent] and dated October 1722, with a few notes; on the verso are Stukeley's notes on the Elham River, which 'ran this year 1724 & has not run of 6 years before, or more'

Undated autograph manuscript including diary notes on Roman remains, inscriptions, an earthen urn (sketched), soils, etc.

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