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Letter from Robert Boyle to Sir Robert Southwell

185

Certificate from Joseph Warner to Samuel Hilles

160

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

190

Letter from John Dalton to his cousin George Bewley

135

Letter from J. W. Bartholomew to Thomas Frankland

160

Medical recipes

315

A manuscript alchemical paper

4 sheets

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

370

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

225

Trade card of John Bristow Engine-Maker, Ratcliff Highway, London

3 sheets

French technical drawings of surveying instrument

225

Trade card of Joseph Merlin, '66 Little Queen Ann Street East, Portland-Chapel, Marybone'

325

Letter from Joseph Priestley to Reverend Mr Scholefield

2 pages on 1 sheet

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

215

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."

185

Letter from Josiah Wedgwood to Matthew Boulton

13 items

Manuscripts and drawings relating mainly to mining engineering and gunpowder

155

Letter from Smart Lethieullier to an unnamed correspondent

3 volumes

Boulton and Fothergill letter books

165

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

190

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

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

420

The St James's Chronicle; or, The British Evening-Post

1 sheet

Tracing of Valve Gear from Minerals, Mines and Mining in Cornwall

1 item

Drawing of 6 Wheel 3000G Water Capacity 7T Fuel Capacity 5'6" Gauge Tender General Arrangement

1 item

Drawing of 6 Wheel 2470G Water Capacity 260 Cubic Feet Fuel Capacity 3'6" Gauge Tender General Arrangement

1 item

Drawing of Indian Midland 5'6" Gauge Locomotive

1 item

Drawing of 5'5 13/16" Gauge Locomotive

1 item

Drawing of 2'6" Gauge Locomotive

1 item

Drawing of Indian Midland 5'6" Gauge Locomotive

Overall, 760mm x 1016mm

Cinema advertising poster for "The Doctor in the Nude" and "Mama's Dirty Girls"

1345

Architectural design drawing: A Design of a Stone bridge, adapted to the Stone Piers which are to support Westminster Bridge

Observations, in French, providing a critical analysis of Hales’ work and of the manuscript “Description of Dr Hales' Ventilators established in London in Newgate Prison” (which can be seen as item MS/2001/02)

A critical analysis of Hales’ work and of the manuscript “Description of Dr Hales' Ventilators established in London in Newgate Prison”

3p on 1 leaf

The Art of Smelting Copper Ores; To Refine Copper. [Headed: 'Neath. (Ch.Champion)'. Watermarked 1801]

166p + plates

Second Report from the Select Committee upon the Improvement of the Port of London

1265

Architectural design drawing: The Geometrical Elevation of the North Front of Westminster Bridge

Includes en placard seals.

Indenture entitled 'Conveyance of Lands in Stockton held by Lease for three Lives under the Bishop of Durham Mr. Reeve Mr. Thomas Smith and Mr. Rutter to Mr Samuel Smith'

1 item

Photograph printed onto a large board showing cars in operation around a bend on the Never-Stop Railway

A summary, in French, of a letter to Duhamel from Hales (probably the letter from Stephen Hales discussing his ventilators and his proposal for bladder stones, which can be seen as item MS/2001/01.) There is a comment at the end about the difficulty in reading Hales’ writing due to [Hales’] “son grand age et surtout le tremblement de mains qui lui est survenu” – his old age and especially the trembling hands that occurred to him.

Summary of a letter to Henri-Louis DuHamel from Stephen Hales

19p

Copy of the Report made by the Commissioners of the Customs to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury on The Subject of the several Plans referred to them 'for providing sufficient Accommodation for the enreased Trade and Shipping of the Port of London'

1p

Estimate of Engines for Mr Goodridge, London/Messrs B[oulton] & W[att], Soho

2 items

Indentures recording conveyance of land in the County Palatine of Durham

A description, in French, of the ventilators installed in Newgate Prison. Written in columns down one side of each page, with marginal notes in different handwriting. “Description Des Ventilateurs du Dr Hales établis à Londres dans la prison de Newgate ou de la nouvelle porte où ils tirent par le moyen d'un moulin à vent tout le mauvais air des différentes parties de cette prison ces Ventilateurs ont été faits par Mr Stibs, Charpentier, rue Fore près les murs de Londres. “ which translated, reads as “Description of Dr. Hales' Ventilators established in London in Newgate Prison…where they pull by means of a windmill all the bad air from the different parts of this prison these Ventilators were made by Mr. Stibs, Carpenter, Fore Street near the walls of London.” An accompanying page is a plate from Gentleman’s Magazine, April 1752 and titled “'The Windmill fixed on Newgate to work the Ventilators erected there April 17: 1752”

Handwritten notes titled Description of Dr Hales' Ventilators established in Newgate Prison

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Letter from Stephen Hales discussing his ventilators and his proposals for bladder stones

Unpublished French translation of the second part of Hales's book on the ventilator. Possibly in the hand of Pierre Demours who translated and published the first part of the book as 'Description du Ventilateur' in 1744. Bears a few editorial notes and alterations in another hand. Accompanied by what appears to be part of an envelope bearing 'Monsieur DuHamel de Monceau à Paris' and a note, probably in his hand, that the manuscript was written somewhat out of order, but contains quelque chose de bon” or “something good”.

Unpublished translation of the second part of Hales' book on the ventilator.

1 sheet

Description of effect of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake on lakes in the south of England

Includes en placard seals.

Page 6 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

1 item

Notes and Sketch Relating to the Cugnot Engine and the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers

1 item

Drawing of Mr Thomas Savin 2-4-0 4'5 1/2" Between Wheels 4' 8 1/2" Gauge Locomotive General Arrangement

1 item

Drawing of 3'3 3/8" Gauge Locomotive