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  • Spinners and stocking makers: interior view, a spinning wheel and a stocking machine. Engraving.
  • Hat makers: interior view, various implements used in the making of hats. Engraving.
  • A tannery: interior view, a horse drawn wheel and a furnace with various tools of the trade. Engraving.
  • Rope-making: men testing ropes by pulling with a capstan. Engraving.
  • The universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure.
  • A hand-powered, crank-driven, milling machine. Engraving, 174-.
  • The universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure.
  • A hand-powered milling machine, worked by two labourers. Engraving, 174-.
  • A seated man drawing a view onto a framed piece of glass and a seated man drawing from a perspective grid. Etching.
  • Textiles: silk-spinning equipment. Engraving by W. Lowry after Farey.
  • Mechanics: levers, pulleys, wedges, and forces. Engraving.
  • Clarendon Building, Oxford: panoramic view with the Bodleian Library and Sheldonian Theatre. Line engraving.
  • Electricity: electro-static equipment. Engraving, [late 18th century].
  • Geography: a combination orrery and globe. Coloured engraving.
  • Chemistry: several disembodied hands experimenting with liquids, and a man looking on. Engraving, 17--.
  • Chemistry: chemical apparatus in use, on an ornamental table. Engraving, 17--.
  • Chemistry: stages in the production of ether, showing varous retorts in use on furnaces. Engraving, 17--.
  • Textiles: a silk weaving loom and a frame for silkworms. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • A Chinese peacock pheasant sitting on a flowery shrub. Coloured etching.
  • A green winged dove from the East Indies sitting on a tree stump. Coloured etching by J. Basire.
  • An African land tortoise. Coloured etching.
  • A swallow-tailed hawk sitting on the branch of a tree. Coloured etching.
  • A butcher bird (shrike) sitting on a branch of a dead tree. Coloured etching.
  • Two canary birds (finches) sitting on tree branches. Coloured etching.
  • Two goldfish (small reddish-golden chinese carp). Coloured etching.
  • A rattlesnake. Coloured etching.
  • A wolverine (glutton). Coloured etching.
  • A Pensylvanian pheasant sitting on a piece of a felled tree. Coloured etching.
  • Textiles: a silk-spinning frame. Engraving.
  • A land tortoise. Coloured etching.