Library Book Collection

The Launch of the 'Concordia'

1st August 2024

A brigantine in St Peter Port Harbour (c) The Priaulx Library

Witchcraft in action - literally with a pinch of salt. From a Report by J Linwood Pitts, Hon. Sec. of the Folklore Section of the Société Guernesiaise. The illustration is a photograph of a brigantine in St Peter Port Harbour, from the Priaulx Library's Photographic Collection. Please contact us if you wish to reproduce it.

'More of Peter Girard's Guernsey'

29th November 2023

A second miscellany of Guernsey's history and its people. Published in 1990 by the Guernsey Press Company Ltd. A list of contents and photographs for reference.

A visit to the Priaulx Library

7th July 2023

A report from the Guernsey Evening Press of 12 December 1935 of a visit to the Priaulx Library by the Société Guernesiaise. 'A sudden enthusiasm is always interesting, and this was seen at the Priaulx Library, Candie, when, following the reading of a most fascinating paper on the history and contents to La Société Guernesiase by Mr Ralph Durand, the learned Librarian, some 30 of the members of the Society went browsing among that 15,000 books and notable editions found on the shelves.'

The Kingdom of Congers

11th February 2022

From An Account of the Island of Jersey, with An Appendix of Records &c. (1694), to which are added, Notes and Illustrations, by the Reverend Edward Durell, MA, Rector of St Saviour, Jersey. Jersey: Richard Giffard, 1837.

Sunny Guernsey, 1948

16th September 2020

Frontispiece photograph from 1952 Guernsey Tourist Brochure (c) The Priaulx Library

A newspaper report with travel statistics from September 1948: 'Air Travel Soars'. Photograph of ferry entering St Peter Port Harbour, from the 1952 Tourist Committee Brochure, Guernsey, Channel Isles: 'The Sunshine Isle'

Victor Hugo and Guernsey: Victor Hugo the artist

22nd March 2019

From Charles Hugo's Chez Victor Hugo par un passant, [Victor Hugo at home, by a passer-by], Cadart & Luquet, Paris: 1864, published anonymously and decorated with 12 etchings by Maxime Lalanne. By Dinah Bott.

List of photographs in the Quarterly Review of the Guernsey Society 1969-1972

24th August 2017

This invaluable publication is available for consultation at the Library. A list of its photographic illustrations from vols. XXV-XXIX, 1969-1972. Please ask for further information. The items may no longer be with the same owners or guardians.

A letter from Quebec, 1817

25th August 2016

'Report from the missions: a letter from Monsieur de Putron, to the Editor. Quebec, January 1, 1817.' From the Magasin Méthodiste, 1818, p. 91, addressed to Jean de Queteville, Methodist pioneer and founder and editor of the magazine. Guernsey began very early to export French-speaking missionaries all over the world; poor Jean de Putron, however, felt let down by his Guernsey accent and inferior French, as spoken in Guernsey.

'Donkey' series II

18th July 2016

Index to the people ilustrated in the photographs in the Donkey series of books by George Torode. Part II: Donkeys at work, Donkey's serenade, Donkey's tails, and The donkey rides out. Please contact the Library for further information (these photographs are under copyright.) With thanks to Olwyn Shorey.

'Donkey' series portrait photographs