Copper engraved certificate approx 9” x 5” with armorial vignette and “George Silvertop Esq.”. Single sheet, undated but circa 1800. Plate mark to margin. The field ‘Newcastle upon Tyne’ is engraved ready for use, together ...

Broadside approximately 15” x 11”. Minor surface soiling and foxing and repair to upper right corner, otherwise a very clean copy.

Broadside approximately 11” x 8 1/2”. Light folding crease (now faint) approx 2 inches from right-hand edge. Very minor foxing to margin; single small nick to edge and a little faint soiling top edge ...

Reprint. Octavo. [3], pp 4-51, [1]. Book Condition: Very Good. Modern plain card wraps. Very light foxing and small stain to edge of final blank otherwise a very clean crisp copy indeed. McCulloch (1789-1864) was ...

Octavo. [2], 45 pp, [1] blank. Book Condition: Very Good. Modern plain card wraps. Cropped to edge with very minor loss to margins of text to edges pp 14, 21/2, 29/30 (single letters ...

Octavo. 24 pp. Book Condition: Near Fine. Pamphlet in modern plain thin card wraps. Minor soiling top edge throughout with associated light creasing and small nick to half-title. No annotation or inscriptions. Scarce- Copac locates ...

W Shaw & Co Photograph Archive. Collection of fifteen superb mounted and titled early twentieth century silver gelatin prints depicting armament manufacture at the Wellington Cast Steel Foundry in Middlesbrough, owned by William Shaw & Co. The largest five magnum prints are 22 x 28 inches (including mount) and show the manufacture of 'Cast Steel Ariel Bombs for the Great War', four of these images are reproduced as smaller prints of 13 x 17 inches (including mount). Two photographs are approx 21 x 15 1/2 inches and show variously the 'Main Casting of Stern Frame for Admiralty Twin Screw Tank Steamer' and a superb image of 'Southampton Floating Dry Dock, The Largest of its Kind in the World' built by Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Another image is 12 x 9 1/2 inches and shows a cast Steel Blast Box for a Bessemer Convertor and one untitled image of the same size of cast machinery in the Shaw yard. A further image (21 x 17 inches) shows a train of '12 Cast Steel Slag Ladles and Carriages' with the W. Shaw Blast Furnace in the background, lastly a smaller image (20 x 10 1/2 inch) of a train of cast steel ships propellers. Minor soiling to mounts with chips and to extremities, professional archival repair to one mount but overall in very good condition.

The Wellington Foundry was opened in 1881 and was owned by Shaw’s until a 1960 take over by Leys Foundry; Middlesbrough was then the centre for steel manufacture in England (being nicknamed the ‘Infant Hercules’ by William Gladstone) with over 140 foundries situated there in its heyday.

Small square octavo. Red roan with geometric blind-stamped decoration to boards. All edges gilt; primrose yellow endpapers. An approx 280 pp. album (the majority of the pages blank) with over 100 signatures of late 19th ...

Original Nuremberg Chronicle leaf from the first (Latin) edition printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg, 1493. Folio (approx 15x12 inches) ; printed in 63 lines in gothic letter. Recto and verso decorated with several original woodcut ...

Reprint. Book Condition: Good. Unpaginated landscape format booklet series in shoelace binding, attached to orange cloth-covered box base with loose lid. Box split at corners and rubbed to edges; shoelace replaced by string. Lid split ...