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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"

'James Burrow's Arithmetick MDCCXXXVIII'

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"

[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]

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'

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

Torn note referring to a payment of £5.0.0

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

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

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

3 sheets

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

275

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

205

Letter from John and Jane Cox to John Cox

230

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

435

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

220

French technical drawing of a 'niveau a Lunette'

200

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

185

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

A collection of glass lantern slides capturing the development of flight from an early set of images from the 1909 aviation meeting held at Reims, France through to images of aircraft from Imperial Airways and flying boats in the late Thirties.

The History of Aircraft and Flying

185

Certificate from Joseph Warner to Samuel Hilles

160

Medical recipes

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."

155

Letter from Smart Lethieullier to an unnamed correspondent

1345

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

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

1 item

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

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"

1 item

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