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Volume entritled: "Elements of Plane Geometry and also The Mensuration of both Superficies and Solids"

Volume entitled: "The Description and Use of a Terrestrial Planetarium, including the Orbits of Mercury and Venus commonly called an Orrery"

Two manuscripts in French bound in one volume entitled: "Essai sur les fers coules Pour le Roy" and "Memoire sur la fonte et la Moulage des Bombes "

Principles of Mechanics by George Adams

Typescript copy of 'Anson's list of H.M. Royal Navy 1747-1750'

Volume entitled: "Illumni sui Charissimi Josephi Ball calculorum Rationem experimens Libellus Quemq"

Manuscript entitled: "Grundliche Anleitung zur Chemie Part II Section II"

A Description of the Pneumatic Apparatus made for His Majesty King George the Third by George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty

'James Burrow's Arithmetick MDCCXXXVIII'

Legal document entitled 'Article and Schedule of Deeds relating to my Dwelling House'

Legal document entitled 'Abstract and Schedule of Deeds relating to T S Raisbeck's Dwelling house being Copyhold'

[Letter] London [to] Mr Goodrich, Portsea or at Mr Peake's Dockyard, Portsmouth/ Sam[ue]l Rehe. [He has received, for Goodrich, the Society of Arts' premium of £65]

Copies of acquittances

Articles of agreement between John Claxton, Jacob Harrison and Thomas Raisbeck

Torn note referring to a payment of £5.0.0

Legal document granting John Stapylton Raisbeck authority to take oaths in various counties in Durham, York, Kingston Upon Hull and Newcastle Upon Tyne

Legal agreement between Thomas Meeke and Katherine Turner

Legal document confirming Thomas Raisbeck's status as an attorney

Petition for Thomas Raisbeck, City of Durham to Dormer Parkhurst Esq, Chancellor of the County Palatine of Durham and Sadberge

Legal agreement regarding the transfer of land from John Humble to Robert Hilton in the Ropery, West Little Field; messuage, garden/orchard, curtilag and 2 stables; and The Garth

Petition of John Stapylton Raisbeck

A Description of an Apparatus for explaining the Principles of Mechanicks made for His Majesty King George the Third by George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty

Instructions to the illustrator of 'A description of an apparatus for explaining the principles of mechanicks made for His Majesty King George the Third by George Adams'

Memorandum regarding the transfer of property

Deed of admittance

Pages 14 and 15 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Article of agreement between William Raisbeck and James Raisbeck

Articles of agreement between James Raisbeck and William Raisbeck

Testament to Thomas Raisbeck by Thomas Rudd

Act for better regulation of attorneys and solicitors

Note referring to partnership between Thomas Raisbeck and John Rudd

Legal agreement between Lamelot Hilton and Thomas Meeke

Legal agreement between Anne Meeke and Thomas Raisbeck

Legal document regarding Thomas Raisbeck's appointment as a solicitor

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'

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

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

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

French technical drawing of a 'niveau a Lunette'

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