Founding Collections Gallery
From ground-breaking scientific texts to great works of literature, this is a selection of items from the first major collections that established Senate House Library on 18 June 1871...
Margarita  Philosophica  by Gregor Reisch, 1504
Euclid's Elements (1482)
Pantometria  by Thomas Digges, 1571 
Copernicus, De revolutionibus (1543) 
Regiomontanus,  Kalendarium  by Johann Mueller, published 1474 
De arte supputandi, by Cuthbert Tunstall, 1522
A treatise on problems of maxima and minima, solved by algebra by Ramchundra, 1850
Plurimarum singularium & memorabilium rerum in Graecia, Asia, AEgypto, Iudaea, Arabia, 1589
The Works of Virgil, translated by John Dryden, printed by Tonson, 1697
Journal du voyage du chevalier Chardin en Perse & aux Indes Orientales by Sir John Chardin, 1686
H Kain Diathk. = Novum Testamentum, 1793
Principles mathématiques de la philosophie naturelle by Isaac Newton, 1759
Sitten-Lehre der Heiligen Schrift by Johann Lorenz Mosheims c. 1773-1770
Arithmetique logarithmetique by Edmund Wingate (Paris, 1625)
Elements of Arithmetic by Augustus De Morgan