Devotion 105

Catalogue 105 DEVOTION, Books, Manuscripts, Idols, Images and Artifacts. It is a different perspective on Voyages and Travels. Apart from Bibles and Crucifixes, here is a letter from the ill-fated but devoted Admiral Byng, Thai illuminated Phra Malai manuscript, Chinese Yao Shaman Manuscripts and Masks, an Italian Medical Compendium, a Chinese Printers Matrices for Herbal Remedies, European Manuscript Antiphoners, an African Nkisi Nkondi figure, a Burkina Faso Plank Mask, Ponting’s haunting photograph of Scott’s Hut in the Antarctic, Henry Bradbury’s Masterpiece of Nature Printing formerly owned by Alice Liddel’s father, and a chunk of Nelson’s Flag Ship Victory.