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Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Catalogue of Useful Inventions for Cotton Spinners, Manufacturers and for all textile trades

Catalogue of Useful Inventions for Cotton Spinners, Manufacturers and for all textile trades

An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 2 no. 17

An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 2 no. 17

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

Drawing entitled 'Sectional Drawing for a Steel Protected Cruiser for Colonial Defence to be named'

Drawing entitled 'Sectional Drawing for a Steel Protected Cruiser for Colonial Defence to be named'

My Machine 1888 II Plan of driving cams, levers, etc. in initial position.

My Machine 1888 II Plan of driving cams, levers, etc. in initial position.

An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 5 no. 50

An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 5 no. 50

Drawing entitled 'Sheer Drawing for a Steel Protected Crusier for Colonial Defence to be named'

Drawing entitled 'Sheer Drawing for a Steel Protected Crusier for Colonial Defence to be named'

Letter from D. Dale to Henry Pease

Letter from D. Dale to Henry Pease

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

Sketch of framing for support cross driving axis and framing axis.

Sketch of framing for support cross driving axis and framing axis.

550.00

Printed sheet: Babbage's calculating machine

255.00

Publicity brochure entitled: "David Kirkaldy, Testing and Experimenting Works"

Despite Darwin's description pencilled on the back of /1, the projection is not onto a tetrahedron. /2 bears title 'Map of the World projected gnomonically on the faces of a regular eikosihedron'. Originally items 3218 and 3219 in the catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at the S. Kensington Museum, 1876.

Manuscript maps of the earth projected on a regular dodecahedron and on a regular tetrahedron

Scale 1/4" : 1'. Comprises plan of upper deck; plan of poop and forecastle; plan of lower deck; plan of hold (and sections); profile. Each bears numerous signatures.

Arrangement drawings of ship "Brisk"

Scale 1/4":1'

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Bellona' and 'Barham'

140.00

Booklet entitled: "Aerial Navigation being the inaugural address"

Scale 1":4'. Roll comprises specification (12p); plans of poop and forecastle; upper deck; main deck; platforms of hold and sections; profile of inboard works.

Specification and arrangement drawings of single-screw, iron-clad frigate 'Shannon'

365.00

Lithograph: Archibald D. Dawnay's selection of effective sections of girders

Scale 1/4":1'. Plans of platforms, protective deck, main deck, hold and upper deck, all showing ventilation; proposed arrangement of fresh and salt water services; profile showing ventilation.

Arrangement drawings of HMS 'Narcissus'

175.00

Letter from Thomas Spencer Cobbold to E Walford

Scale 1/4":1'. Comprise plans of protective deck, poop and forecastle, hold (and sections), upper deck; profile.

Arrangement drawings of twin screw steel gun and torpedo vessels 'Curlew' and 'Landrail'

410.00

Rigging Plan for HMS Mildura

Drawings comprise plan of upper deck and protective deck; elevation, plan of poop and plan of forecastle; plan of hold and transverse section

Description of Pumping, Flooding, and Drainage Arrangement of cruiser 'Mildura', and associated drawings

Scale: 1/4 ":1'. Comprise plans of poop, forecastle and bridge, of lower deck and of hold (and sections), profile, plan of upper deck.

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Partridge'

Scale 1/4":1'. Comprise profile, and plans of upper deck, lower deck and hold (and sections).

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Decoy'

700.00

Street plan entitled: "Metropolitan Street Improvements, General Plan, shewing Improvements proposed by Metropolitan Board of Works"

185.00

Letter from Sir Andrew Ramsay to Foster

Scale 1/4":1'. Comprise protective deck, upper deck, profile, lower deck, poop and forecastle and upper bridge, platforms, hold (and sections), all as fitted.

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Severn'

Comprises: Directions (1 sheet) and Drawings (3 colour lithographed sheets: view of boiler, erecting instruction, expanding instruction) relating to patent water tube safety boiler.

Directions for erecting Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd., Boilers. - Class W.I.F.

Scales various. Comprise midship section, rigging plan, general arrangements (2), lines. Built for J.A. Jenkins & Co.

Plans of no. 162 S.S. 'Flintshire'

870.00

Poster: Rules and Regulations for Geo. Wailes & Co.

Scale 1":c.12'. Ordered to be printed 28 Jul 1800. Engraved (by William Lowry) for the Appendix to the Third Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons upon the Improvement of the Port of London. Plate XXIV/5.

Engravings entitled: 'Messrs. Telford & Douglass's Design of a Cast Iron Bridge of a Single Arch proposed to be erected across the River Thames from near St. Saviour's Church and in a Line with the Royal Exchange as shewn in their General Plan Plate IX. Span of the Arch 600 feet'

385.00

Specification for Single Screw Composite Gun Vessels to be named 'Arab' and 'Lily'

Comprises lithograph diagrams (44 leaves) with manuscript diagrams and tipped-in manuscript and copy diagrams added (18 leaves).

Post Office Telegraphs - Diagrams of Telegraph Apparatus and Connections

Drawing No. 346. Brass Fittings Loco B Z Fox Walker Cartridge paper

Drawing of stop cock and blow off cock

Fourth edition of Joseph Casartelli's catalogue of instruments made and sold by him at his Market Street premises.

Revised Catalogue of Surveying, Mining, Engineering, Drawing, Optical and Philosophical Instruments

Order No. E414 E478

Drawing of 2-4-0 3'6" Gauge Locomotive General Arrangement

Order No. E450

Drawing of Dublin and Drogheda Railway 2-2-2 5'3" Gauge Locomotive General Arrangement

1045.00

Drawing of watertight compartments, watertight doors, sluice valves of ship 'Nelson'

Order No. 3249E

Drawing of Ceylon Government Railways 4-4-0 Engine General Arrangement

Envelope from an unknown sender in Northallerton to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Cross Bank, Batley

Envelope from an unknown sender in Northallerton to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Cross Bank, Batley

Grover was assistant to Sir Cuthbert Peek, This ticket is for passage to Australia to observe the 1882 transit of Venus

Steamship ticket (second saloon) of Charles Grover, on Orient Line's S S Liguria to Australia.

Order No.2576 E 2690 E

0-6-2 Locomotive

Order No. T1200 T35 T45

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

Details of the management, courses and their teachers, fees, term dates, scholarships, and prizes for the Liverpool Institute. The Institute consists of: High School, Commercial School, Girls' School, Government School of Art, Queen's College, Evening School, Reading Room and Library. Signed Charles Sharp, Secretary. Printed in Liverpool by D. Marples & Co., Limited, Lord Street. Signed 'GRR' in pen on front cover. Red pen annotations pages 12-13.

Liverpool Institute

Report by Robert Calder, M.A., H.M. Inspector of Schools, of an inspection of The Buchanan Institution, undertaken 31st March to 1st April 1882. Details student numbers, test results, descriptions of the work performed in the different 'Standards'. Includes section on the industrial training the school offered, including tailoring and carpentry. Calder writes that 'the general arrangement of the classes seems in every respect a satisfactory one; the demeanour of the boys is frank, but respectful' and that the 'classes are skilfully handled'. Printed in Glasgow.

Report on the Buchanan Institution, Glasgow

Drawing No. 452. Fox Walker & Co Engineers Bristol Loco B1 Engine No. 329 395 G Cartridge paper

Drawing of lamp brackets

Has sent George Edward Young some papers concerning the ‘Shildon and Soho Engine Works’, [not present] he had written an essay on Shildon Engine Works, will send copies Had heard that Timothy Hackworth ‘never had justice done to him’, has some lectures by Thomas McNay , and life and times of Joseph Pease, wishes success in his lecture.

Letter from John Glass, New Shildon to Rev George Edward Young

Order No. E1197

Drawing of 2'6" Gauge Locomotive