Census data, 1821
From the Gazette de Guernesey, 4th August 1821
The French Prayer Book
A letter to the Editor of the Star newspaper from the Guernsey historian Edith Carey, 14 December 1926, concerning the history of the French Prayer Book, published for the islands, the first (unpopular) edition of which exists in only one copy, in the Lambeth Palace Library.
Times Past, by Carel Toms
'In Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Herm.' A list of the chapters and personalities in this book, published in 1985; taken from his 'journalistic and photographic efforts of the last 30 years.' Many of these photographs are in the Library's Carel Toms Collection; please inquire for further information.
Eels
'Longevity of freshwater eels' from The Guernsey Press, 20 January 1912.
Guernsey in 1775 and in 1837
By Ferdinand Brock Tupper, in Duncan's The Guernsey and Jersey Magazine III (1837), pp. 233 ff.
Lost things: Guernsey granite fireplaces
General Oliver de Lancey William's only academic production, a notebook of a survey of old island houses he undertook in 1956, full of interesting observations, not just about fireplaces. It was presented to the Library in 1960. The photograph, taken by Edith Carey in 1904, is of La Maison Jean Sarre, 'an old house going to ruins near Bon Air, opposite L'Eree Schools, with a beautiful old carved granite chimney piece, with heads for corbels.'
Guernsey people
By Frank Feather Dally. Guernsey folk love a good funeral.
Candie and L’Hyvreuse: Condatum et Eboracum or ebriaca herba
Suggestions for the origin of these interesting place names. Comments welcome! NOTE: if you make reference to this theory of the origin of the placenames Candie or L'Hyvreuse, please give the article title, refer to the Priaulx Library and attribute it to the author, Dinah Bott.
Thomas Andros' Commonplace Book
Thomas Andros' Commonplace Book, by the Seigneur of Saumarez Manor, from a family 'whose penmanship was far from good;' a handwritten pamphlet of herbal medicine and fruit-growing, dated 1589, Guernsey, and an exploration of other texts quoted in it.
Lilium Sarniense, or, a Description of the Guernsay-Lilly
Lilium Sarniense, or, a Description of the Guernsay-Lilly. To which is added The Botanical Dissection of the Coffee Berry. With Figures. By Dr. James Douglas, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London; and Fellow of the Royal Society. London: Printed by G. STRAHAN, at the Golden Ball, over-against the Royal Exchange, Cornhill. 1725.
Early children's books
The Priaulx Library has amongst its collection of rare items several books intended for children.
The works of Ralph Durand
Ralph Durand, author and explorer, was Librarian of the Priaulx Library from 1929-1945, and the curator of the Island Museum from 1938-45.