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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."

235

Letter from Sir James Edward Smith to M. L'Heritier in Paris

190

Letter from John Dalton to George Bewley

220

Letter from Jeremiah Newman to publisher J. Dodsley

185

Letter from Josiah Wedgwood to Matthew Boulton

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"

155

Reprint entitled: "Description and use of a thermometer for measuring the higher degrees of heat: from a red heat up to the strongest that vessels made of clay can support"

235

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

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

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

90p

[Booklet containing] An Act for the Repair of the Peers of Bridlington alias Burlington, in the East Riding of the County of York [1695, and subsequent continuations (four) of 1714, 1747 and 1784]

document

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

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

1 item

Drawing of 8 Wheel 1300G Water Capacity 220 Cubic Feet Fuel Capacity 3'3 3/8" Gauge Tender General Arrangement

1 item

Drawing of 3'6" Gauge Locomotive

1 item

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

1 item

Drawing of 6 Wheel 3500G Water Capacity 7T Fuel Capacity 5'6" Gauge Tender General Arrangement

Two letters, copied onto one sheet of paper, both in French, to unnamed correspondents. One is addressed from “Teddington près d'hampton Court” [Teddington, near Hampton Court] known to be home to Hales.

Letters to unnamed correspondents

This volume, printed for the author by Jos[eph] Harrop, by Wellins Calcott, a religious writer and freemason, is an early example of printing in Manchester.

Thoughts Moral and Divine: The Fourth Edition with Improvements