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Inscribed leaf inserted at the front of John Davies' (1632) bearing an extended note with the name Patrick Melvill, and the date 1637, on the recto, together with a hand-painted coat of arms on the verso. The inscription states that Melvill gained an MA at St Andrews University, but was incorporated at St John's, and that he left two volumes to the College, the current one and a Book of common prayer (1637).

A copy of Pliny's (Lyon, 1587) bearing a label on its cover which reads "The gifte of Dame Saint Johns wife to Sr. Olivar St. Johns of Battersea in Surrey". This label is attached to the front board under a horn and brass frame.

Gilt armorial stamp of Michael Woodhull from a 1483 edition of .

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The gold-stamped arms of the city of Utrecht used as a centre ornament on an 18th-century Dutch vellum prize binding, probably made for one of the local schools. From an edition of published in Leiden in 1737.

Bequest of Thomas Whytehead.

This armorial binding stamp has been attributed to several owners, but remains unidentified. It seems to have belonged to a medical man from the mid-17th century, judging by the volumes that bear it, and the two volumes that do so at St John's are copies of the medical works of (1582) and (1557).

The gold-stamped arms of the city of Rotterdam used as a centre ornament in a 17th-century Dutch vellum prize-binding, probably made for one of the local schools. From an edition of published in Utrecht in 1685.

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This gold-stamped crest of a lion, with the motto "Nobilis ira" is from a volume containing John Stow's (1599) and Sir Thomas Smith's De republica Anglorum (1584). The volume belonged to William Stuart, grandson of John, 3rd Earl of Bute. William was admitted at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ°²×¿ as a Fellow-Commoner in 1815, taking his MA in 1820. He resided at Aldenham Abbey, Herts, Tempsford Hall, Beds, and Hanover Square, London.

Gold-stamped arms of Sir Augustine Pettus, who was knighted in 1611, and gained his B.A. from Cambridge in 1613, from an edition of Matthieu's (1605). The arms here appear on a gold-tooled vellum binding, with the initials A.P., but a copy of Mathieu's Louys XI (1610), although similarly bound, lacks these initials. Both books were given .

The gold-stamped crest of a bird standing above an urn, indicating the ownership of Major Thomas Pearson. Pearson served in India, but still managed to amass a large library, mainly consisting of Elizabethan material. This volume cannot be representative of his collection, as it is a Dutch edition of the (Leiden, 1589), but it does bear a fine 16th-century blind-tooled binding, probably from Oxford.

Gold-stamped arms, probably those of N. Nouet, an avocat au Parliament, although his descendant Jean Jacques Nouet (1719-1746) used the same arms. From an edition of Grotius's (1633).

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