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Anonymously compiled 18th century ms. volume of excerpts from alchemical works

1701-1800

[Principles of Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics etc.; illustrated with experiments. ca.1710. 98p. ms., in English but with Latin passages in the hydrostatics section. Comprises sections on mechanics, on hydrostatics, on thermometers, hygrometers and barometers, on catoptrics and dioptrics and on 'Sir Isaac Newton's colours'. Written at a fairly popular level, with many sketches and suggestions for simple experimental demonstration]

Principles of Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics etc.

circa 1710

Essai sur les fers coules Pour le Roy; [bound with] Memoire sur la fonte et la Moulage des Bombes. 1767. [105 p. + 28 p.; 14pl. + 2pl. Two ms. works in French in which, though primarily military in purpose, the description of iron founding and casting is central to the text. Possibly produced for one of the French military schools specialising in artillery (Metz?). The first work is neither dated nor assigned to an author; the second bears 'a Metz le 21.bre 1767 Signe Dangenoust'. Both works have accompanying folding plates bearing ink and colour wash drawings]

Essai sur les fers coules Pour le Roy; [bound with

1767

[Notes on chemistry lectures, ca. 1805, bound with translation of chapters 1-5 of De Constantia Book 1 by Lipsius. 1 ms. vol., with the notes at the front of the volume and a ranslation of chapters 1 to 5 at the back, with eight loose pages (on 2 leaves) of translation of parts? of chapters 4 to 8]

Notes on chemistry lectures

circa 1805

Some Account of Lewis Paul and his invention of the machine for spinning cotton and wool by rollers and his claim to such invention to the exclusion of John Wyatt / Robert Cole. 1858. [Ms.;,47p., bound. Prefaced by cutting from The Manchester Guardian reporting Cole's paper (of which this is a ms. copy) to the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Leeds. It was reprinted in The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton by Gilbert J. French, 1860, 2nd ed., p.244-65. Includes copy letter, 1858 Nov 22, Headingley Lodge, Leeds, to Cole / Edward Baines, commenting on the paper]

Some Account of Lewis Paul and his invention of the machine for spinning cotton and wool ....

1858

Illumni sui Charissimi Josephi Ball calculorum Rationem experimens Libellus Quemq. Tuulis ornavit Powell. 1733. [Ms. vol., with ornamentally drawn title page and headings in English and French. Book chiefly of titles to the various rules of arithmetic. Bears ms. pencil note on inside front cover: 'The book of Joseph Ball the very dear pupil of Powell; being an exposition of the method of calculation: illustrated with headings by Powell']

Illumni sui Charissimi Josephi Ball calculorum Rationem experimens Libellus Quemq. Tuulis ornavit Powell

1733

[Ms. volume (3 vols. in 1) re working practices, equipment and supplies etc. at Port of London Authority and at Merseyside Docks and Harbour Board / Major R.C. Gabriel R.E., covering period late 1940s/early 1050s. Volume is both written and compiled; it totals c.135pp. but with many items additionally stuck in. Covers dock railways; berthing, loading and unloading, stowage etc of ships; tugs, cranes and other equipment; dock organisation. Profusely illustrated with drawings, plans, maps, diagrams, post cards and photographs. 2 vols. are re PLA, 1 vol. is re MD & HB, chiefly covering period late 1940s/early 1950s]

Ms. volume (3 vols. in 1) re working practices

circa 1946-1955

Mines de Fer nommes Normarken dans la Province Wermelandie en Svede. [Bound ms. volume (of 19 leaves) of watercolours and text re iron mining in Nordmark, Sweden to 1776. Contains: watercolour of mine shafting and tunnels; illustrated title page; a 1:800 scale ms. map view of the mine workings built up from 12 superimposed coloured map sections with cutouts, each section representing a different level of the workings and the whole producing a perspective effect; an ms. account (in French) of the geology and history of the mines up to 1776; index; 3 leaves of coloured vertical section drawings. End papers watermarked 1801. Text papers bear different watermark of uncertain date]

Mines de Fer nommes Normarken dans la Province Wermelandie en Svede

circa 1776-1805

Magpie Mine Resolution Book, 1839 Oct-1846 Nov. [Ms. bound, 82p. used. Record of resolutions made at meetings of proprietors of the mine, of monetary calls upon them, and of divisions of reckonings. Proprietors present at each meeting are listed]

Magpie Mine Resolution Book

1839-1846

[Record of] Lead ore raised at Longstone Edge Mines, Sampled ... and sold. 1843Nov-1847 Feb. [Ms. bound, 42p. Records, entered monthly, detail amounts weighed and assayed, the price per ton and the amounts sold and to whom]

Record of lead ore raised at Longstone Edge Mines

1843-1847

Memoria sobre a Capitania das Minas Geraes seu Territorio, China, e Produccoes Metalicas; sobre a necesside de se restabelecer e animar a Mineracao decadente do Brazil sobre e Comercio, e Exportacao dos Metaes e Intereses Regios. Com ... Appendice sobre es Diamantes e Nitro natural. Indo por ordeur de Sua Magestade Ano de 1799 / [anon. Ms. vol., in Portuguese, French and English; 84 leaves used. Cover bears ms. note 'Bought in R. Southey's sale May 1844', and label from sale catalogue which states 'a valuable collection of Documents on the Minas Geraes (Bahia) copied from the originals by an English Mining Engineer'. Also included is 'Proposals for a Diamond Contract in the Minas Geraes ... in 1740'; production statistics 1734-1794; notes on laws and regulations governing the mines (e.g. of 1608 and 1618); 'Note sur les Diamants'; 'Coinage in Spain'; notes 'On Diamonds' with statistics 1772-1790; 'Project for a Tobacco Contract in the Minas Geraes' etc.]

Memoria sobre a Capitania das Minas Geraes seu Territorio

circa 1799

Customs of Mendipp. 1842. [61p. ms., bound. Re mining customs. Comprises, in the first part, 'a Table or Index ... wherein each Custom of the Miners on Mendipp is to be found' and, in the second part, 'the Tenants Remembrancer, Containing ... an Abstract of the Customs of the Manor of Wells in the County of Somerset' and 'a Presentment for the said Manor'. Bears note, signed by H.T. De La Beche 'transcribed from a copy, apparently contemporary with the original, once in possession of the Bishop of Bath and Wells']

Customs of Mendipp

1842

Copy correspondence between John Wood, chairman of Inland Revenue, and various parties regarding coffee and chicory, with reports. 1852 Jun-1853 Mar. Ms.; 93p + 11 chromolith. leaves. Bound in volume spinemarked 'Chicory and Coffee'. Includes illustrated reports for Wood, of 1852 June and November, by Lindley and Hooker into the detecting of vegetable substances (Chicory, roots of Mangel Wurzel, Turnips, Parsnips and Carrots, and seeds of Beans, Peas, Lupins, Acorns and Malt) mixed with Coffee for the purposes of adulteration; chemical report, of 1852 Dec, by Graham, Stenhouse and Campbell, on detecting (24) vegetable substances mixed with Coffee for the purposes of adulteration; and illustrated report and replies, of 1853 Mar, to Wood's request for information re 'the regulations under which the Sale of Coffee and Chicory should be allowed']

Copy correspondence between John Wood

1852-1853

Commander's Complete Book. H.M.S. Queen, 116 [guns] / Henry W. Bruce, captain. [184-. Ms., ca.365p. used (some gaps). Indexed. Gives details of ship's measurements, rigging and fixtures, crew, drills and watches. Section 'Captain's Orders' dated Lisbon Jan-Mar 1848; section 'General Stations' dated Naples Bay Mar 1849]

Commander's Complete Book. H.M.S. Queen

1840

The Method of Building, Rigging, Apparelling and Furnishing his Majesty's Ships of War, according to their Rates, with the Exact Proportion and Charge of all Things requisite thereunto ... / [Edward Battine. 1686. 119p. ms., bound. Has subtitle 'Also the Charge of Wages and Victualls and necessaries as well for Ships in harbour as att Sea. The number and Charge of Officers and Workmen at Each Dockyard for Building and Repairing his Majesty's Ships With the Salaries and Allowances Granted By His Majesty To Commissioners and Officers appointed for the Government of the Same'. With contents page. Affixed ms. note by G.S.L. Clowes dated 1930 Nov reads 'By Edward Battine, an officer of Portsmouth Dockyard. This copy dates from 1686 ... written soon after the appointment of the Special Admiralty Commission in the spring of that year, perhaps for presentation to one of the new Commissioners' etc.]

The Method of Building

1686

[Ms. notes on the 1805 ruling engine (dividing engine) of Sir John Barton / Robert Barton. 1876-1890. 35p. on 19 leaves. Robert Barton inherited his grandfather's 'Dividing Machine' in 1878. He worked out the method of ruling and was awarded a first prize for his rulings at Melbourne Exhibition. The notes include a description and experiments made over fifteen years, including work (1880) for Melbourne Exhibition]

Ms. notes on the 1805 ruling engine (dividing engine) of Sir John Barton

1876-1890

Nachbildung der ersten Rotations Dampfmaschine mit kondensation aus dem Jahre 1788 von James Watt / Eugen Loher. 1914 May. [Ms. vol., in German, 34p. with 7 plates of photographs and figures. Relates to copy of the Science Museum's rotary steam engine (Lap Engine) of James Watt, built for the Deutsches Museum in Munich]

Nachbildung der ersten Rotations Dampfmaschine mit kondensation aus dem Jahre 1788 von James Watt / Eugen Loher

1914

Elements of Plane Geometry and also The Mensuration of both Superficies and Solids / Thomas Simpson. 1747. [Ms., 62p. ill., bound. Simpson was Fellow of the Royal Society and 'Professor of Geometry in the Royal Academy at Woolwich']

Elements of Plane Geometry and also The Mensuration of both Superficies and Solids / Thomas Simpson

1747