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  • A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English. To which is prefixed, an introductory discourse (supposed to be written by the celebrated Mr. Locke) intitled, the whole history of navigation from its original to this time / Illustrated with maps and cuts, curiously engraved.
  • Histoire dún voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. Contenant la navigation et choses remarquables veues sur mer / par l'autheur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce pays-là. Les moeurs et façons de viure estranges des sauuages ameriquains: auec vn colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs animaux, arbres, herbes et autres choses singulières ... Reveve, corrigée et bien augmentee en ceste troisieme edition, tant de figures.
  • Histoire dún voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. Contenant la navigation et choses remarquables veues sur mer / par l'autheur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce pays-là. Les moeurs et façons de viure estranges des sauuages ameriquains: auec vn colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs animaux, arbres, herbes et autres choses singulières ... Reveve, corrigée et bien augmentee en ceste troisieme edition, tant de figures.
  • Six sailing boats navigate choppy seas. Wood engraving by G.H. Andrews.
  • A man using a raft of inflated skins to navigate the River Tigris. Wood engraving.
  • A man presenting a votive offering to Saint Fermina as protector of navigators. Oil painting by an Italian painter.
  • The Lachine Rapids, St. Lawrence River, Canada: Big John Canadien, a Mohawk, navigates the rapids with a party of men in a nine metre boat. Photograph by Notman & Sandham, 1878.
  • An episode in Dombey and son by Charles Dickens: the interior of "The wooden midshipman", a shop in the City of London for navigational instruments; a boy ("Rob the Grinder") is conversing with a pugilist known as "The Game Chicken". Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • Chloroplasts in a plant cell, in this case a spinach leaf. Inside the chloroplasts, the stacks of thylakoid membranes are where the action takes place. The dark spots are starch granules. In close proximity are the mitochondria, with curved membranes, and the endothelial reticulum. This system of membranes navigates between the energy producing organelles until it reaches the nucleus, where it also forms the nuclear membranes.
  • The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation. Made by sea or ouerland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres / diuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries &c. of the English toward the north and northeast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. VVhereunto is annexed a briefe commentary of the true state of Island, and of the northren seas and lands situate that way; as also the memorable defeat of the Spanish huge Armada, Anno 1588. The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation made by sea or ouer-land, to the south and south-east ... By Richard Hakluyt, preacher, and sometime Student of Christ-Church in Oxford.
  • Australian scenery : river flats / Hunter Rogers.
  • Australian scenery : river flats / Hunter Rogers.
  • Australian scenery : river flats / Hunter Rogers.
  • Australian scenery : Western Australian coast / Hunter Rogers.
  • Australian scenery : Western Australian coast / Hunter Rogers.
  • Australian scenery : Western Australian coast / Hunter Rogers.
  • Illyarrie (Eucalyptus erythrocorys)... : waratah (Telopea speciosissma)... : the wattles or acacias (acacia decurrens) / designed by Strom Gould.
  • Illyarrie (Eucalyptus erythrocorys)... : waratah (Telopea speciosissma)... : the wattles or acacias (acacia decurrens) / designed by Strom Gould.
  • The Illawarra flame tree (Brachychiton acerifolium)... : lace bark (brachychiton discolor)... / designed by Strom Gould.
  • The Illawarra flame tree (Brachychiton acerifolium)... : lace bark (brachychiton discolor)... / designed by Strom Gould.
  • The Illawarra flame tree (Brachychiton acerifolium)... : lace bark (brachychiton discolor)... / designed by Strom Gould.
  • Illyarrie (Eucalyptus erythrocorys)... : waratah (Telopea speciosissma)... : the wattles or acacias (acacia decurrens) / designed by Strom Gould.
  • Large Christmas bell (Blandifordia grandiflora)... : Christmas bush (Ceratopetalum gummiferum)... : mistletoe (muellerina eucalyptifolia)... : Christmas beetle / designed by Strom Gould.
  • Large Christmas bell (Blandifordia grandiflora)... : Christmas bush (Ceratopetalum gummiferum)... : mistletoe (muellerina eucalyptifolia)... : Christmas beetle / designed by Strom Gould.
  • Large Christmas bell (Blandifordia grandiflora)... : Christmas bush (Ceratopetalum gummiferum)... : mistletoe (muellerina eucalyptifolia)... : Christmas beetle / designed by Strom Gould.
  • The bluebird / designed by R.B. Sutcliffe.
  • The bluebird / designed by R.B. Sutcliffe.
  • The bluebird / designed by R.B. Sutcliffe.
  • Coppelia / designed by R.B. Sutcliffe.
  • Le tricorne / designed by R.B. Sutcliffe.