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Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].

Clocks: various pocket watches, and details of their mechanisms. Engraving c.1861.

Clocks: an escapement mechanism. Engraving by W. Kelsall after J. Clement.

Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine. Coloured drawing.

Engineering: a large cogwheel, front and side elevations. Coloured drawing, 1875.

Astronomy: a mechanism for a model of planetary motion. Engraving by W. Kelsall after J. Clement.

Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine, with a flywheel. Coloured drawing.

Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.

Engineering: large cogs meshing together, and diagrams of epicycloid curves. Colour lithograph by Stanislas Petit, ca. 1905.

Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.

Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.

Technology: a door-closing mechanism: long section, cross-section, and details. Engraving by G. Gladwin after himself.

The early works of Willard Gibbs in applied mechanics : comprising the text of his hitherto unpublished Ph.D. thesis and accounts of his mechanical inventions / assembled by Lynde Phelps Wheeler, Everett Oyler Waters & Samuel William Dudley.

The sacred diary: Or, select meditations for every part of the day, and the employments thereof: With directions to persons of all ranks, for the holy spending every ordinary day of the Week. Propounded as means to facilitate a pious life, and for the spi

Clavis coeli; or A treatise setting forth the nature, the parts, and kinds of prayer with the efficients thereof: the object of prayer; the matter of prayer; the time and place of prayer; the gestures to be used in prayer; the necessity, excellency and pr

The mount of holy meditation: or a treatise shewing the nature and kinds of meditation the subject matter and ends of it; the necessity of meditation; together with the excellency and usefulnesse thereof. By William Gearing minister of the gospel at Lymin

The history of the Church of Great Britain from the birth of Our Saviour, until the year of Our Lord, 1667 : with an exact succession of the bishops, and the memorable acts of many of them : together with an addition of all the English cardinals, and the 

The arraignment of pride, or, Pride set forth, with the causes, kinds, and several branches of it: the odiousness and greatness of the sin of pride: the prognosticks of it, together with the cure of it: as also a large description of the excellency and us

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The sacred diary: Or, select meditations for every part of the day, and the employments thereof: With directions to persons of all ranks, for the holy spending every ordinary day of the Week. Propounded as means to facilitate a pious life, and for the spi

Clavis coeli; or A treatise setting forth the nature, the parts, and kinds of prayer with the efficients thereof: the object of prayer; the matter of prayer; the time and place of prayer; the gestures to be used in prayer; the necessity, excellency and pr

The mount of holy meditation: or a treatise shewing the nature and kinds of meditation the subject matter and ends of it; the necessity of meditation; together with the excellency and usefulnesse thereof. By William Gearing minister of the gospel at Lymin

The history of the Church of Great Britain from the birth of Our Saviour, until the year of Our Lord, 1667 : with an exact succession of the bishops, and the memorable acts of many of them : together with an addition of all the English cardinals, and the

The arraignment of pride, or, Pride set forth, with the causes, kinds, and several branches of it: the odiousness and greatness of the sin of pride: the prognosticks of it, together with the cure of it: as also a large description of the excellency and us