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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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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.

Forged excerpt of six lines from Catiline, signed 'Ben Jonson', with attestation (also forged) 'Writt for me by my friende Mr B Jonson when I asked him for his hand-writing. John Marston 1612', and later authentification by Thomas Wharton (also forged), saying 'The lines are from his Catiline, Act. 3'

Forged verses 'No Songe No Supper', signed 'B. J.' and inscribed 'To my speciall goode Friende Sr Wm Davenant'; integral address leaf: 'For Sir William Davenant at the Swanne Taverne by Charinge Crosse'

Manoscritti inediti di Torquato Tasso, ed altri pregevoli documenti, per servire alla biograpfia del medesimo; posseduti ed illustrati dal conte Mariano Alberti, e publicati con incisioni e fac-simili per cura di Romualdo Gentilucci

The Jewish peril: protocols of the learned elders of Zion

Original printed wrappers; the first English edition.

Notulae anecdotae e chronica illustris stirpis Babenbergicae in Osterrichia, quam vir reverendus Aloldus de Peklarn ... conscripsit, a Fr. Ortilone ... sub finem seculi XII.

Die Geheimnisse der Weisen von Zion, herausgegeben von Gottfried zur Beek [i.e. Ludwig Müller]

Saint Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de. Études de la nature. Nouvelle édition, 2 vols.

Veglie di Tasso, prima edizione Italiane

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