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Bound volume entitled: "A System of Practical Geometry"

The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion by John Curr

Drawing of the dam and setting for the wharf at South Dock Pier in Portsmouth

Ship plan entitled: Orlop for the 36 Gun Ship building by Mr Barnard in the River Thames

Ship plan entitled: Quarter deck and Fore Castle for the 36 Gun Ship building by Mr Barnard

Ship plan entitled: Gun deck for the 36 Gun Ship building by Mr Barnard in the River Thames

Ship plan entitled: A Draught for Building by Contract by Mr Barnard in the River Thames a Ship to carry 36 Carriage Guns

Cash book

[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]

Receipt from J [?] Raisbeck for the Sugar House to George Hutchinson

Receipt from Messrs Raisbeck & Co for the Sugar House to John Wheatley for £0.13.2

Torn note referring to a payment of £5.0.0

Receipt from Mr John Raisbeck for the Sugar House to A Hall for £1.10.8 ½

Memorandum regarding letting buildings within the Sugar House premises

Note regarding £18.0.0 paid on the Sugar House mortgage from J S Raisbeck to Cuthbert Burrell

Receipt from Mr Raisbeck to William Marshall for £1.5.0

Note from John Staplyton Raisbeck to Cuthbert Burrell regarding a payment of £18.0.0 to paid on a £800.0.0 loan for the Sugar House

Print of a View of Manchester

Ship plan entitled: Profile Draught for the 36 Gun Ship building by Mr Barnard

Ship plan entitled: Upper deck for the 36 Gun Ship building by Mr Barnard, River Thames

Ship plan entitled: Disposition of the Frame for the 36 Gun Ship building by Mr Barnard, River Thames

Printed insurance policy for the Laudable Society for the Benefit of Widows

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

Note regarding payment of £18.0.0 on the Sugar House mortgage from J S Raisbeck to Cuthbert Burrell

Receipt from J S Raisbeck & Co to George Hutchinson for £8.14.3

Written order of the Bishop of Durham to J Stapleton Raisbeck

Receipt from Mr Raisbeck for the Sugar House for the Sugar House from A Christopher for £2.4.6 for the purchase of paper and a list of outgoing payments from Jn Raisbeck to Jn Hall, Mr Pickering and Mr Horn[?]for £4.16.7

Receipt from Leonard Raisbeck for the Sugar House to John Wheatley for £0.13.8

Receipt from Mr Raisbeck & Co to John Christopher for £0.9.2

Legal agreement between Thomas Clapton and Jacob Starrison

List of bills from Mr John Raisbeck to David Hall

Bills for mother's funeral

Receipt from Mr Raisbeck to William Reed

215

Volume relating to navigational and related astronomical problems

450

A Plan of the Navigable Canals from Birmingham, to Oxford

1130

Map: Plan of the Collieries on the Rivers Tyne and Wear also Blyth, Bedlington and Hartley; with the Country 11 Miles round Newcastle

2 sheets

Maps relating to Rochdale Canal

1500

Map entitled: 'A Plan shewing the line of the proposed navigation from Bishops Stortford, through part of Essex, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, to the Brandon River, on the borders of Norfolk ... '

365

Letter from Charles Stanhope to G Nuttall

560

Agreement for erecting a steam engine at Ravenhead near Prescot in County of Lancaster

255

Letter from James Watt to Mr John Morley

230

Letter from John Dalton to Peter Crosthwaite

600

Deed respecting a Steam Engine to be erected at Ketley Iron Works

105

Prescription for Master Forester Fench

1080

Plan of the Collieries on the Rivers Tyne and Wear also Blyth, Bedlington and Hartley; with the Country 11 Miles round Newcastle

170

Letter from William Toplis to an acquaintance of Lord Bathurst's

175

Share certificate for the Wilts & Berks Canal

115

Note from Nevil Maskelyne to Mr Wingrave

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

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"