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Postmill with miller and sack carrier

Photograph of an illustration from a 14th century manuscript, taken from "History of Corn Milling" vol II by Bennett and Elton. Illustration shows a post mill with a miller inside the door, and a woman carrying a full sack.

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"Cripplegate and neighbourhood. (From Agga's Map)"

A page from "Old and New London" Volume 2 by Walter Thornbury (1878) with an engraving of Agga's Map of Cripplegate showing the approximate location of four windmills in Finsburie Fyeld [sic]. The page has been affixed to a frame mount by an antiquarian bookseller.

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Structural drawing of a windmill interior (5/8) for Diderot's Encyclopédie

Original title reads, "OEconomie Rustique, Moulin a exprimer l'Huile des Graines". Rex Wailes' note on the reverse reads, "From Diderot's Encyclopaedia, 1762" and then lists the labelled parts A to H in French, " A. & B. l'arbre fournant, C. le rouet. D. rouet horizontal, D./F. l'arbre vertical, E. la lanterne, G. un rouet, H. le gross arbre horizontal".

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