Catalogue

London Almanack for 1757

Mathematical table for working out interest, n.d. [mid 18th c.]

Description of a new method for brewing, n.d. [1770s]

Directions for the erection of a hand mill and its operation, n.d. [c.1770]

Method of how to mark linen so as not to wash out again [for plans], n.d. [1770s]

Communications to the Board of Agriculture on farm buildings, etc. with preliminary observations on the origin of the Board of Agriculture, London, 1796

J. Loudon, The Utility of Agricultural Knowledge to the sons of the Landed Proprietors of England, and to young men intended for Estate Agents, London, 1809

'Tables of duties of assessed taxes' for year ending 5 April 1814

Stamp duty ready reckoner for bills and receipts, 1815

Rev. Arthur Pearson, Some Account of a system of a garden labour acted upon in the parish of Springfield, Essex, London, 1832

E. Hoppus, late surveyor of the Corporation of the London Assurance, Practical measuring made easy to the nearest capacity by a new set of tables, 1840

R. Hudson, The Land Valuer's Best Assistant, comprising tables for calculating the value of estates, London, [1842]

John Ewart, land surveyor, A treatise on the arrangement and construction of agricultural buildings, 1851

A Letter to the ... Earl of Essex by Charles E. Humbert, Land Agent, Watford, Herts., concerning the advantages of an act to empower owners of settled and encumbered estates to borrow money for their improvement on the security of the estates, 15 August 1855

Dietrichsen and Hannay's Royal Almanack, 1865

Agricultural Returns for Great Britain with Abstract Returns for the United Kingdom, HMSO, London, 1867

Letter by William Mure, 15 Lowndes Square, to the editor of the Times, concerning land tenure in Belgium, 15 December [1869]

Directions for reducing and copying plans, n.d. [19th c.]

Old Moore's Almanack with list of fairs and cow-keepers guide, Barnard Castle, 1889

North Eastern Railway Time Tables, Leeds, October 1892

Income tax tables specially arranged for land and property owners and agents ... compiled by William Johnson, Ravensworth Estates Office, 1896

Board of Trade, Employment Department, etc. circulars concerning the 1911, 1916 and 1924 National Insurance Acts, 1911 - 1927

J. Ingram Dawson, 'The Ending of Copyholds and Customary Freeholds', reprinted from the Penrith Observer, February 1926

Chart of all state insurance schemes with comprehensive tables of all contributions and benefits payable, compiled by T.S. Newman and A.G. Lee, n.d. [c.1928]

Address book used in the Strathmore Estates Office, Barnard Castle, n.d. [early 20th c.]

Estate address book, n.d. [c.1929]

Order of the King in Council relating to distemper in cattle, proposals on how to deal with it and rules to be observed when shooting infected cattle, 1746 and n.d.

Comparison of weight of wheat when worked by a water mill and a hand mill, n.d. [c.1760]

Memorandum on the different terms for deer, n.d. 18th c.]

Sutton Thomas Wood, A Treatise on Gypsum, on its various uses, and on its application as a Manure, London, 1807

Robert Wilson, An Enquiry into the causes of the High Prices of Corn and Labour, Edinburgh, 1815

Account of the average corn prices in Great Britain for each quarter 1815 - 1824, 2 April 1825

Viscount Milton, Address to the Landowners of England on the Corn Laws, London, 1832

Matthew M. Milburn, The Weardale Lime, as applicable to the agriculture of Cleveland and South Durham, Darlington, 1853

Pamphlet issued by the Scottish Chamber of Agriculture, The Experience of Members of the Chamber of the Exhaustion by Crops of the various Manures applied by them to land in Scotland, Edinburgh, 1882

'Recipe' for a cure for sheep foot rot, 11 March 1895

Alexander Hay, The Uses of Rubber in Stable Management, published by the Rubber Growers' Association, London, November 1936

A Bill To enable the Owners of Settled Estates to defray the Expense of Draining the same by way of Mortgage, 2 March 1840

Open letter from Thomas Bennett, Park Farm Office, Woburn, concerning the Duke of Bedford's plans for improved draining on his estate, 1 March 1841

A Bill To authorize the Advance of Public Money to a limited Amount, to promote the Improvement of Land, in Great Britain and Ireland, by Works of Drainage, 29 May 1846

A Bill To explain and amend the Act authorizing the Advance of Money for the Improvement of Land by Drainage in Great Britain, 1 March 1847

Directions to old or infirm former excise officers concerning how to apply for charity money, 21 April 1687

Rules of the War Office concerning the pensions of officers' widows, n.d. [18th c.]

Petition for erection of a workhouse or hospital for the employment of the poor of Manchester, n.d. [18th c.]

Request for money to help the victims of the Montreal fire on 18 May 1765, 17 July 1766

Rev. Henry Phillpotts, M.A. 'A Letter to the Right Honourable William Sturges Bourne, MP', on a bill introduced by him into Parliament, 'to amend the laws respecting the settlement of the Poor', Durham, 1819

Circular letter to the Boards of Guardians of local parishes from the Poor Law Commission Office, Somerset House, London, outlining the duties of, and type of person required, to implement the New Poor Law at local level, 31 January 1837

A Bill To declare the Effect of an Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of King William the Fourth, to regulate Parochial Assessments, 15 June 1838

'The Tenderness of the Foundling Hospital considered. With some remarks upon the Printed Bill for obliging all parishes in this Kingdom to keep Registers of Births Marriages and Deaths and for raising therefrom a Fund towards the support of the Hospital for the maintenance and Education of exposed and deserted young Children', letter to a Member of Parliament from 'a Manufacturer in the Country' arguing against passing of bill and attacking the Foundling Hospital for its effects on society, n.d. [19th c.]

Address of the commissaries of the Archbishop of Canterbury and clergy in convocation to His Majesty with answer concerning his maintaining the Church of England, 14 February 1734/5

John Moore, LLB, Rector of St. Michael's, Bassishaw, and Minor Canon of St. Paul's, Case respecting the maintenance of the London Clergy, briefly stated and supported by reference to authentick documents, London, 1802

Six Letters to the Farmers of England on Tithes and Church Property, London, c.1830

Open letters and report by the Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales concerning the assessment and commutation of tithes, August 1838

Rev. Richard Jones, 'Remarks on the manner in which tithe should be assessed to the poor's rate ... with a protest against the change' to be produced by Mr. Shaw Lefevre's bill, 1838

Printed annual supplement to Willich's Tithe Commutation Tables for ascertaining tithe rent charges for the years 1849, 1853, 1858, 1859, 1861-1865, 1867, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1873; including tables detailing the annual average prices of wheat, barley and oats from 1790 to the year of publication of above volumes

Religious notes and homily entitled 'A distinction betwixt the soul and the spirit', n.d. [17th c.]

Rev. Dr. Edward Synge, late Lord Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland, 'An Essay towards making the knowledge of religion easy to the meanest capacity', London, 1760

Historical Account of the Laws against the Roman Catholics of England, London, 1811 Sections detailing: (1) laws passed against Roman Catholics since the reformation, (2) laws passed for the relief of Roman Catholics, (3) penalties incurred by Roman Catholics as a result of religious principles, but which do not apply to Protestant dissenters

A Premonitary Adress to the Catholics of the United Kingdom by one of their own body, London, 1819

Letter to the Rt. Hon. Spencer Percival, Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Isabella, Countess of Glencairn, concerning his attack on the character of Lord Nelson, Bristol, 1812

William Sherlock, D.D. Master of the Temple, A Vindication of the Case of Allegiance Due to Sovereign Powers', and 'An Easie Method for satisfaction concerning the late Revolution and Settlement with reference to Sherlock, 1691 and n.d.

William Woodfall, An Impartial Report of the Debates in the Two Houses of Parliament ... including copies of all state papers, treaties, conventions, etc., Vol. 1, London, 1796

James Brown P.L., A Sublime Epistle, Poetic and Politic on the Manchester Subject, with prospectus of a new journal The Blue Dwarf, etc., Durham, 1820

York Herald (also York Herald and General Advertiser), 10 February, 11 August, 29 September and 10 November 1798, and 29 January 1817

Newcastle Courant, 24 November 1798, April - December 1800, 3 and 10 January 1801, 25 August 1810, 14 September 1811, and 25 January 1817

York Courant (also York Courant or Constitutional Journal and Original Advertiser: also York Courant and Original Advertiser), June - December 1800, September - December 1808, January - October 1809, January - July 1810, 23 December 1816, 10 and 17 March 1817, 13 June 1820, and 13 April 1830

Morning Chronicle, 18 May 1801

The Times, including advertisements for the sale of Stocksfield Hall, Northumberland, 22 and 28 May 1801

The Star, 20 June 1801

York Chronicle, 9 July 1801

Morning Advertiser, 3 and 31 January, 2 February 1807

Daily Advertiser, Oracle and True Briton, 31 January, 2 and 3 February 1807

Tyne Mercury (also Northumberland, Durham and Cumberland Gazette), 28 December 1813, 15 February 1814, January - April and October - December 1816, February - April 1817, and 28 November 1820

Durham County Advertiser, 2 and 9 March 1816, 26 August 1820, and 13 January 1821

Westmorland Gazette and Kendal Advertiser, 11 April 1829

Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle, 11 April 1831

Sunderland and Durham County Herald, 7 May 1841

Teesdale Mercury, 17 August 1864, 27 July, and 19 October 1870

Auckland Times and Herald, 17 May 1872

Illustrated London News, 6 January - 29 December 1883

Illustrated London News, 5 January - 25 December 1884

Illustrated London News and print of the division lobby in the House of Commons, 27 June 1885

Illustrated London News, commemorative issue of the reign of Queen Victoria, 1902

Cobbett's Weekly Political Pamphlet, Vol. 32 No. 10, 8 March 1817

The Cap of Liberty. A London Weekly Political Publication, 20 October - 10 November 1819 (4 files, printed)

The Black Dwarf. A London Weekly Publication, 20 October - 10 November 1819

The Republican, 22 October - 31 December 1819

The Blanketeer and People's Guardian. A New Moral and Political Work, 30 October 1819

Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, 11 December 1819

Truth magazine, containing political satire, cartoons, etc. Christmas 1885

The Farmers' Companion, September [1746]

Moore's Almanack Improved; or Farmer's and Countryman's Calendar, 1838

The Farmer's Magazine, No. 41, 12 March 1810

The Journal of the Horticultural Society of London, Vol. VIII, Part 4, 1 October 1853

The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Vol. 78, London, 1917

General Magazine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, containing articles on politics, military events, trade, religion, etc., with appendix, January - December 1747

Gentleman's Magazine, June 1811

The Historical Register, n.d. [mid 19th c.]

The Builder; a Journal for the Architect, Engineer, Operative and Artist, 14 January 1871

Art and Letters: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Fine Art and Fiction, October 1882

Specialities, No. 1, Vol. II, for architects, surveyors, etc., September 1890

Thomas Jefferys, A Proposal for Publishing a General Map of Yorkshire, From an actual Survey, On a Scale of one Inch to a Mile, London, 1766

Handbill for the auction of a collection of pictures by Raphael and others belonging to the Academy of Painting and Sculpture, 29 February 1776

Advertisement for prints from an engraving of Darlington by John Bailey, n.d. [1776]

A Catalogue of Sand's Circulating Library, Newcastle, Newcastle, 1801

Advertisement for Dr. Busby's translation of the works of Lucretius, 1813

Catalogue of books arranged under 'Fine Arts', 'Natural History', 'Medicine', etc., n.d. [mid 19th c.]

A catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern Hemisphere; with a particular account of the manner of the manufacturing the same in the various islands of the South Seas; partly extracted from Mr Anderson and Reinhold Forster's observations, and the verbal account of some of the most knowing of the navigators: with some anecdotes that happened to them among the natives, properly arrainged and printed for Alexander Shaw, 379 Strand, London, 1787 For more information see: Ian Morrison, The Cloth, the Catalogue, and the Collectors. Bulletin (Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand), vol. 27 no.3 and 4 (2003), pp.48-59 Maryanne Larkin, Tales and Textiles from Cook's Pacific Voyages. Bulletin (Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand), v.28, no.4, 2004, p.20-33 Louise Wilson, An investigation into the origin of the Tapa specimens collected by Captain Cook on his three voyages to the Pacific. Bulletin (Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand), v.27, no.3-4, 2003, pp.60-70 Donald Kerr, University of Otago, Dunedin(2015): Census of Alexander Shaw's Catalogue of the Different Specimens of Cloth Collected in the Three Voyages of Captain Cook to the Southern Hemisphere, 1787 http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4573 and DCRO Library Ref No: Library Pamphlets Vol B 23/1

Advertisement for various London tailors and habit makers, n.d. [18th c.]

Advertisements for London watchmakers, goldsmiths and hardwaremen, n.d. [18th c.]

Advertisement for Sanguine Perfumer, Strand, and for Eau de Luce, n.d. [18th c.]

Catalogue of the Northern Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Co., Newcastle, n.d. [early 20th c.]

Remedies for complaints of the liver, bladder, etc., n.d. [late 16th c. - early 17th c.]

Advertisements for various London doctors and opticians, n.d. [18th c.]

'An approv'd Remedy to make them slender that are Gross', n.d. [mid 18th c.]

List [of patients of Dr. Metcalf of York Street] giving names and addresses in central London, n.d. [c. 1780]

'Directions for the use of Velnos' Vegetable Syrup', n.d. [c.1800]

Catalogues and advertisements for plants, shrubs, seeds, trees and roses, [c.1780] - 1889

Trade cards for London, Tynemouth and Newcastle tradesmen and businesses, n.d. [18th/19th c.]

Catalogues and advertisements for agricultural implements, draining tools and manure products, [c.1846] - 1902

Advertisements for various insurance companies including Star Life Assurance Society, 1820 - 1902

Advertisements for chimney tops, portable copying machines, fire extinguishers and other items, [c.1876] - 1948

Philip Bonarota, Ad Monumenta Etrusca Operi Dempsteriano, addita explicationes et conjecturae, Florence, 1726

Anonymous satirical poem 'On the Celebrated Miss Patch' of London, with mention of Miss Bowes and Grosvenor Square, n.d. [c.1770]

An Accurate and Impartial Narrative of the War by an Officer of the Guards. In two volumes containing the second edition of a political sketch of the campaign of 1793 ... a similar sketch of the campaign of 1793 ... (and) a narrative of the retreat of 1795, Vol. II (Illustrated)

The Death of Absalom, Of the principal Buildings in and about Jerusalem and Sonnet to the Deity, n.d. [19th c.]

Decameron or Ten Days Entertainment of Boccaccio translated from the Italian, volumes 1, 2 and 4, London, 1822

George Daniel, Doctor Bolus, Cumberland British Theatre series no. 90, London, 1826

J.R. Planche, Charles the XII, Cumberland British Theatre series no. 174, London, 1829

Frederick Reynolds, The Exile or The Deserts of Siberia, Cumberland British Theatre series no. 216, London, 1829

Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour, London, n.d. [1830s]

Notes on the history of Florence from its foundation to 1414 taken from an unknown work, n.d. (watermark 1830)

Memorandum on the foundation and principal members of the University of Glasgow, n.d. [16th c.]

Pedigree of the Kings of Castile 1060 - 1433, n.d. [16th c.]

Copy explanation and drawing of a pyramidial dial made by the Rev. Francis Hall, presented to King Charles II and set up in the privy garden at Whitehall in 1669, n.d. [18th c.]

'Another letter from A Country-Whig to Richard Steele Esq., on his Defence of his guardian' with account of George Collcott and Robert Jones, mariners, both referring to the 'Dunkirk affair', 7 August 1713 and n.d.

Part of a county history of Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, n.d. [mid 18th c.]

Illustrated file covers showing whale hunts, Liberty and Britannia, the Thames, etc., 1752 - 1802

William Hay, Deformity: An Essay, London, 1754

The Rev. Dr. Trusler, The way to be rich and respectable, addressed to men of small fortune, 1797

Bill of fare listing entrees, main courses, etc., n.d. (watermark 1800)

'Statement respecting the Queensferry passage and the Great North road', including plan of the Firth of Forth with the improvement at Queensferry piers and landing places forming the line of communication between the North and South of Scotland, 1811

'Some considerations on the present state of the hair trade', n.d. [early 19th c.]

Statement of accounts, with list of benefactions and subscriptions for Doncaster Charity Schools, 1813 - 1814

Municipal Corporation Boundaries (Ireland): Copy of Instruction given by ... the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland with reference to the Boundaries and Divisions into wards of the several cities, boroughs, and towns corporate in Ireland; likewise, copy of any letter or Report received in answer to such instructions, with plans, 10 May 1837

Army list for May 1840

Hugo Reid, Elements of Physical Geography, Edinburgh, 1860

The Book of the Cheap Cottages Exhibition containing a complete catalogue with plans, and articles on the origin of the exhibition and garden city, and cottage building problems, 1905

'Notes for the consideration of Secretaries and other Officers of Branches of the League of Nations Union', n.d. [1930s]