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Legal document granting Thomas Raisbeck the authority to act as Attorney in the County Palatine of Durham

Legal document granting John Stapylton Raisbeck authority to take oaths in various counties in County Durham, York, Kingston upon Hull and Cumbria

Pamphlet entitled ‘The Report of Mess. Brindley and Whitworth, engineers, concerning the practicability and expence [sic] of making a navigable canal, from Stockton by Darlington to Winston in the county of Durham'

Indenture relating to lease and release by Thomas Kirton, Francis Reed, Edward Waldy, John Reeve, Thomas Smith and Frances Stapylton to Thomas Reed Ward, Leonard Robinson and John Rutter; and associated agreements and references to earlier leases/releases relating to lease and release by Thomas Kirton, Francis Reed, Edward Waldy, John Reeve, Thomas Smith and Frances Stapylton to Thomas Reed Ward, Leonard Robinson and John Rutter; and associated agreements and references to earlier leases/releases

Handwritten copy of 'Mr Rob.t Whitworth’s report to the gentlemen of the committee at their meeting this day 24th Octo.r 1768'

Memorandum regarding the transfer of property

Deed of admittance

Page 1 of indenture relating to lease and release by Thomas Kirton, Francis Reed, Edward Waldy, John Reeve, Thomas Smith and Frances Stapylton to Thomas Reed Ward, Leonard Robinson and John Rutter; and associated agreements and references to earlier leases/releases

Page 4 of indenture relating to lease and release by Thomas Kirton, Francis Reed, Edward Waldy, John Reeve, Thomas Smith and Frances Stapylton to Thomas Reed Ward, Leonard Robinson and John Rutter; and associated agreements and references to earlier leases/releases

Page 2 of indenture relating to lease and release by Thomas Kirton, Francis Reed, Edward Waldy, John Reeve, Thomas Smith and Frances Stapylton to Thomas Reed Ward, Leonard Robinson and John Rutter; and associated agreements and references to earlier leases/releases

The Loyal Protestant and True Domestick Intelligence, or, News both from City and Countrey.

The Domestick Intelligence Or News both from City and Country Impartially Related

Heraclitus Ridens: at A Dialogue between Fest and Earnest, concerning the Times

Collection of papers relating to the work of Stephen Hales, mainly on ventilators

'An Explanation of the Pendulum Bucket Engine, invented & executed in a Working Model'

Volume entitled: "A Course of Experimental Philosophy by S Triboudet Demainbray in the year 1755"

Volumes with manuscript transcripts of Joseph Black's chemistry lectures at Edinburgh University

Letter from Joseph Priestley to Emanuel da Costa

French technical drawings relating to Newcomen atmospheric engine erected at Fresnes, near Conde in northern France

French technical drawing: Elevation d'une cheminee dans laquelle on a pratique un poele propre a bruler de la houille

Letter from Robert Newton to Miss Offley

Receipt of £1,360 for land sold by Sir John Pettus

Letter from John and Jane Cox to John Cox

An account of an horizontal top or whirling speculum, invented by Mr Serson

French technical drawings of a Newcomen atmospheric engine erected at the York Buildings waterworks on the Thames

Certificate admitting Robert Yeff, joiner and instrument maker to the Freedom of the City of Bristol

Pamphlet entitled: "Receipt for preparing and compounding the principle medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward"

Broadsheet: Sir William Petty's Plan for a system of instruction relative to the business of the Marine Department, in the same words as the original; but with the articles transposed, and marginal titles, supplemental titles, and remarks added

Letter from John Flamsteed to Reverend John Smith

French technical drawing of a 'niveau a Lunette'

The History of Aircraft and Flying

Letter from Robert Boyle to Sir Robert Southwell

Certificate from Joseph Warner to Samuel Hilles

Letter from Nevil Maskelyne to Peter Dolland at St Paul's Churchyard

Letter from John Dalton to his cousin George Bewley

Map entitled: "The waste or Common (in the forest of Roch .. Neroch) of the Mannor of Broadway, now the Lands of Sr Robert Heath knight, his ma[jes]ties Attor. Generall, doe containe 1006 acres where of waies 16 acres 1/2"

Medical recipes

A manuscript alchemical paper

Architectural drawings: Military buildings at St. Venant in north-east France

Broadside: La sphere Automatique, travailee par Thrasius, par les soins de Mr. Adrien Vroesen, & suivant les calculs de Nicolas Stampioen

French technical drawings of surveying instrument

Broadsheet: Some Considerations showing that the Importation of Iron from America will sooner put a stop to the making of Iron in England than to the Importation of Iron from Sweden and Russia

Letterpress handbill entitled: "Proposals for Erecting (By Subscription) an Engine, To be Work't by a Horse which will be Capable to Shave Sixty Men a Minuet, also Oyl, Comb and Powder their Wigs."

Letter from Josiah Wedgwood to Matthew Boulton

Manuscripts and drawings relating mainly to mining engineering and gunpowder

Letter from Smart Lethieullier to an unnamed correspondent

Boulton and Fothergill letter books

Receipted bill, in sum of £5-15-6, for 'A Martin new Universal Compound Microscope ...' bought by Joseph Priestley from Benjamin Martin

"A description of the Pneumatick Apparatus Made for his Majesty King George III Anno Domini 1761 By George Adams in Fleet Street, London"

Instructions to the illustrator of 'A description of the pneumatic apparatus made by George Adams in Fleet Street, London, 1761'