Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...

Jewish coffee houses and the Great Synagogue. An important record of Jewish settlement in the City of London at the turn of the nineteenth century,...

'an outlaw'. A deed by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury dated 18th April 1812 granting the equity of redemption (i.e. the right to reclaim a...

Watercolours of Singapore and the West Indies. A richly illustrated record of service in the Royal Navy at the height of British maritime supremacy...

The first sprinkler system. A signed and dated affidavit to patent a 'mode of construction or arrangement for any building, so as to afford securit...

Jewish banking & Mexican independence. An early nineteenth-century indenture authorising the liquidation and winding-up of the Jewish merchant ...

Invention of a new gun carriage. A signed and dated affidavit to patent the invention of a new gun carriage by Sir William Congreve (1772-1828), co...

Religious orders and jews excluded. A late thirteenth-century gift of land in the parish of Waldegrave, Northamptonshire from Henry de Waldegrave t...

The manuscript commences at the start of section II, with the first leaf numbered '5'. The pagination of the succeeding leaves indicates the origi...

Original drawings of 19th century locomotives. A standard printed locomotive engineer's pocket book, in which columns are left blank for the user t...

Slavers, hunters and murderers; Abyssinia travel diary 1913-23. An exciting and detailed diary recording the exploits of an unknown employee at the...