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A dissertation on the antiquity and use of seals in England. Collected by **** 1736.
Lewis, John, 1675-1747.Date: M.DCC.XL. [1740]- Books
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The chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Norman Conquest unto the present time. Written in the manner of the ancient Jewish historians. By Nathan ben Saddi, A Priest of the Jews.
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.Date: MDCCLXVVII [1777?]- Books
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The english pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West-India navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly Delineating The Sea-Coasts, Capes, Head-Lands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage. With All the Islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes Bermudoes, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Carribe and Bahama Islands. Also A New Description of Newfound-Land, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jerzey, Dellewar-Bay, Virginia, Mary-Land, and Carrolina, &c. Shewing The Courses and Distances from one Place to another, the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other things Necessary to be known in Navigation. The whole being very much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions, not before publish'd. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: 1706- Books
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Sir, the Union fire office being removed from Maiden-Lane to Cornhill, the directors take this mode of giving you notice of the change of situation; and request the favor [sic] of your exertions to procure insurances with the Society, as you find opportunity, for the general advantage of yourself and the other insurers. ...
Union-Society for Insuring of Goods and Merchandizes from Loss by Fire (London, England)Date: 1799]- Books
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The longitude at sea, not to be found by firing guns, nor by the Most Curious Spring-Clocks or Watches. But the only true method for discovering that valuable secret by the sun, moon or stars, and an Exact Time-Keeper, with such Necessary Improvements, as have not yet been Describ'd by any other Person; and (with respect to the Term of any Ordinary Voyage) may properly be call'd a Perpetual Motion. Now Humbly Proposed, To the Consideration of the Publick, by Case Billingsley.
Billingsley, Case.Date: 1714- Books
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The mariners new kalendar. Containing the principles of arithmetick and geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots. Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, Declination, and Right Ascension. Of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed-Stars. Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. A large table of difference of latitude and departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, Fore-Staff and Nocturnal. The Problems of Plain-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale. A Tide Table. The Courses and Distances on the Coast of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, &c. And the Soundings coming into the Channel. With Directions for failing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematicks. Whereunto is added Sailing by Mercator's chart. By John Colson, Teacher of the Mathematicks.
Colson, Nathaniel, active 1674.Date: 1706- Books
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The seaman's practice: containing a fundamental problem in navigation, experimentally verified: Namely, Touching the Compass of the Earth and Sea, and the Quantity of a Degree in our English Measures. Also An exact Method or Form of keeping a Reckoning or Journal at Sea, in any kind or manner of Sailing. With certain Tables and other Rules used in Navigation. The Latitude of the Principal Places in England: The Variation of the Compass: The finding of the Currents at Sea, and what Allowance is to be given in respect of them. By Richard Norwood, Reader of the Mathematicks.
Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675.Date: MDCCXII. [1712]- Books
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The English pilot. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the river Amazones. Particularly delineating the coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, and anchorage, with all the islands therein; as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also a new description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, &c. shewing the courses and distances from one place to another; the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents. &c. With many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
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The english pilot. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly Delineating The Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage, with all the Islands therein; as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also A new Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, &c. Shewing The Courses and Distances from one Place to another; the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other Things necessary to be known in Navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The english pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly Delineating The Sea-Coasts, Capes, Head-Lands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Straits, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage With all the Islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbados, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto-Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands Also A New Description of Newsound-Land, New-England, New-York, East and West New Jersey, Dellevar-Bay, Virginia, Mary Land and Carolina, &c. Shewing The Courses and Distances from one Place to another, the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currens, &c. With many other Things necessary to be known in Navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions, not published before this edition. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: MDCCXXIX [1729]- Books
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The english pilot, describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, streights, soundings, Sands, Shoals, Rocks and Dangers. The bays, roads, harbours, and ports in the oriental navigation, Shewing the Property and Nature of the Winds and Monsoons in those Seas; with the Courses and Distances from one Place to another: The Setting of the Tides and Currents; The Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea. Also, A New table of Variations; and a Correct table of Longitudes and Latitudes; With many other things necessary to be known. Containing several large Draughts of Ports, Islands, and Descriptions; collected from the Practice and Experience of divers able and expert navigators of our Own and Foreign Nations. Divided into three parts. The first, Shewing The Nature and Properties of the Winds and Monsoons in the Navigation from England, to the East-Indies, and the whole oriental ocean, and thereby how to shape a Course from one Port to another, according to the Time of the Year in those Seas. The second, Containing Necessary instructions for Sailing between England, and the East-Indies, in the Spring and Autumn. The third, Describing The Sea-Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Streights, Soundings, Sands, Shoals, Rocks and Dangers. The Islands, Bays, Roads, Harbours and Ports, from Cape Bona-Esperance, to all Parts of the oriental ocean, being very much Corrected and Augmented with several Additions, not before Publish'd.
Date: M,DCC,LV. [1755]- Books
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Observations on the antiquities historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall. Consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, Druid-Superstition, customs, And Remains of the Most Remote Antiquity, In Britain, and the British Isles: Exemplify'd and prov'd by Monuments now Extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, Faithfully drawn on the Spot, and Engrav'd according to their Scales annex'd. With A Summary Of The Religious, Civil, and Military State of Cornwall before the Norman Conquest; Illustrated by the Plans and Elevations of several Ancient Castles, An Eastern View of the Monastery and Site of St. Michael's Mount: and a vocabulary of the Cornu-British language. By William Borlase, A. M. F. R. S. Rector of Ludgvan.
Borlase, William, 1695-1772.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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A catalogue of a select and rich cabinet of ancient gold and silver coins of Greek cities and Kings and imperial denarii in the highest preservation, Antique Gems, a Series of Lava from Mounts Vesuvius & Aetna, Study of Marbles, Collection of Casts from antique Gems, and a Variety of Natural Curiosities, Collected with great Taste and at a most liberal Expence, by A Person of Distinction gone Abroad; which will be sold by auction, By Mess. Christie and Ansell, At their Great Room next Cumberland House, Pall Mall, On Thursday the 25th of February, 1779. To be viewed on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday preceding the Sale, which will begin at Twelve O'Clock. Catalogues may be then had.
Christie and Ansell (London, England)Date: 1779]- Books
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A letter to Thomas William Coke, Esq. Of Holkham. Wherein a full answer is given to his advertisement published in the Norfolk Chronicle and Norwich Mercury, May 2, 1778. By Richard Gardiner, Esq. Of Mount Amelia. Late Captain in the 16th Regiment of Queen's Light Dragoons.
Gardiner, Richard, 1723-1781.Date: 1778- Ephemera
Their sight for us, our help for them : St. Dunstan's : [sheet of stamps].
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Books
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Mahhabone: or, the grand lodge-door opened. Wherein is discovered the whole secrets of free-masonry, both ancient and modern. The whole Being an accurate description of every degree of the Brotherhood, authorized and delivered in all good Lodges. Illustrated with proper remarks, necessary to explain the whole to the meanest capacity, whether a Brother or not. Embellish'd with a beautiful Plan of the Drawing on the Floor of a Lodge; interspers'd with Notes and Remarks, explaining the whole. By J. G. [greek text], A regular Brother of Free-Masonry; Having mounted the Steps of one, two, and three.
J*** G******.Date: M,DCC,LXVI. [1766]- Books
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The temple builder's most useful companion, being fifty entire new original designs for Pleasure and Recreation; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste: Calculated for the Ornamenting of Parks, Forests, Woods, Gardens, Canals, Eminences, Extensive Views, Mounts, Vistos, Islands, &c. Together with a full Explanation, in Letter Press, to each Design, and exact Scales for Measurement. By Thomas Collins Overton,
Overton, Thomas Collins.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Particulars, and conditions of sale, of a valuable freehold estate, situate in the parish of Tottenham, in the County of Middlesex, five Miles from London; consisting of a spacious and capital mansion, called Bruce Castle, With suitable offices, gardens, plantations, and pleasure-grounds, And about sixty acres of rich land adjoining; also, An Elegant Mansion, called Mount Pleasant, With offices, pleasure-grounds, And a compact farm of Two Hundred and Ninety Acres of fine land contiguous; together with several other most desirable freehold farms, woodlands, mills, houses, & other estates; the annual value of the whole being about three thousand pounds: Which will be sold by auction, By Mr. Young, On Thursday the 24th, and Friday the 25th Days of September, 1789, at Twelve O'Clock, At Garraway's Coffee-House, Exchange-Alley, London, in forty lots.
Young, John (Auctioneer)Date: 1789]- Books
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The southampton guide: or, an account of the ancient and present state of that town. Its trade, public buildings, charitable foundations, churches, fairs, markets, playhouse, assembly rooms, baths, &c. Together with a description of the Isle of Wight Netley Abbey New Forest Lymington Lyndhurst Redbridge Romsey Broadlands Bellevue Bevis Mount St. Dennis Titchfield, &c. Interspersed with many curious and useful Particulars. To which are added rules observed in the subscription news room; Terms of Board and Lodging; the going out and coming in of the Mail; Account of Packets and Hoys; Rates of Chairs; perpetual Tide-Table; a List of the Stage Coaches, Carriers, &c. and the Days they set out from Southampton, with the Places where they inn, &c. Also The Distances, in measured Miles, of some useful Roads from Southampton; with an Alphabetical List of the Cities and principal Towns in Great Britain, also measured from Southampton.
Date: [1793?]- Books
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The southampton guide: or, an account of the ancient and present state of that town. Its trade, public buildings, charitable foundations, churches, fairs, markets, playhouse, assembly rooms, baths, &c. Together with a description of the Isle of Wight, Netley Abbey, New Forest, Lymington, Lyndhurst, Redbridge, Romsey, Broadlands, Bellevue, Bevis Mount, St. Dennis, Titchfield &c. Interspersed with many curious and useful Particulars. To which are added, rules observed in the subscription coffeehouse; Terms of Board and Lodging; the going out and coming in of the Mail; Account of the Packets and Hoys; Rates of Chairs; perpetual Tide Table; a List of the Stage Coaches, Carriers, &c. and the Days they set out from Southampton, with the Places where they inn, &c. Also, The Distances, in measured Miles, of some useful Roads from Southampton; with an Alphabetical List of the Cities and principal Towns in Great Britain, also measured from Southampton.
Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A complete channel pilot: comprehending the English and French coasts, from the Thames mouth to the Bay of Biscay; including the north sea: with sailing directions. From actual surveys and observations of experienced navigators. Engraved on Twenty-Eight copper-plates; 1 The Channel at large 2 Mouth of the Thames 3 Sands and Channels from the Nore to Margate Road 4 The Downs 5 Rye Harbour 6 Portsmouth, Spithead, &c. 7 Portland Race, &c. 8 Guernsey, Jersey, and Alderney 9 Guernsey, Sark, Herm and Jethou 10 Jersey 11 Coast of Devon, and Torbay 12 Plymouth Sound 13 Fowey Road and Harbour 14 Polkerries and Mevegezy Bays 15 Falmouth and Carreg Roads 16 Mounts Bay 17 Entrance of the Channel 18 Scilly Isles 19 Milford Haven 20 North Sea 21 Tide Table
Date: [1781?]- Books
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Ankographia [sic], sive convallium descriptio. In which are briefly but fully expounded the origine, course and insertion; extent, elevation and congruity of all the valleys and hills, brooks and rivers, (as an explanation of a new philosophico-chorographical chart) of East-Kent. Occasionally are interspers'd some transient remarks that relate to the natural history of the country, and to the military marks and signs of Cæsar's rout thro it, to his decisive battle in Kent ... / by Christopher Packe, M.D.
Packe, Christopher, 1686-1749.Date: 1743- Books
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A natural history of Ireland, in Three parts. By several hands. Part I. Being a true and ample description of its situation, Greatness, Shape, and Nature; Of its Hills, Woods, Heaths, Bogs; Of its fruitful Parts and profitable Grounds, with the several ways of Manuring and Improving the same: With its Heads or Promotories, Harbours, Roads and Bays; Of its Springs and Fountains, Brooks, Rivers, Loughs; Of its Metals, Minerals, Freestone, Marble, Sea-Coal, Turf, and other Things that are taken out of the Ground. And lastly, of the Nature and Temperature of its Air and Season, and what Diseases it is free from, or subject unto. Conducing to the Advancement of Navigation, Husbandry, and other profitable Arts and Professions. Written by Gerard Boate, late Doctor of Physick to the State in Ireland. Part II. A collection of such papers as were communicated to the Royal Society, referring to some Curiosities in Ireland. Part III. A discourse concerning the Danis mounts, forts and towers in Ireland; never before published. By Thomas Molyneux, M. D. F. R. S. in England.
Boate, Gerard, 1604-1650.Date: M,DCC,XXVI. [1726]- Books
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A natural history of Ireland, In Three Parts. By several hands. Part I. Being a true and ample description of its situation, Greatness, Shape, and nature; Of its Hills, Woods, Heaths, Bogs; Of its fruitful Parts and profitable Grounds, with the several ways of Manuring and Improving the same; With its Heads or Promontories, Harbours, Roads and Bays; Of its Springs and Fountains, Brooks, Rivers, Loughs; Of its Metals Minerals, Freestone, Marble, Sea coal, Turf, and other things that are taken out of the Ground. And lastly, of the Nature and Temperature of its Air and Season, and what Diseases it is free from, or subject unto. Conducing to the Advancement of Navigation, Husbandry, and other profitable Arts and Professions. Written by Gerard Boate, late Doctor of Physick to the State in Ireland. Part II. A collection of such papers as were communicated to the Royal Society, referring to some Curiosities in Ireland: As also a Manuscript. By his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin. Part III. A discourse concerning the Danish mounts, forts and towers in Ireland; never before published. By Thomas Molyneux, M. D. F. R. S. in England.
Boate, Gerard, 1604-1650.Date: M,DCC,XXVI. [1726]- Books
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Catalogus librorum in omni ferè arte & scientia præstantium; or, a catalogue of the library Of a very Eminent Gentleman lately deceas'd; consisitng of a very large and beautiful collection of books in most arts and sciences: Such as the Antiquities of the several Counties in England; most of the Travels and Voyages which have been printed; the most noted Authors in Divinity, History, Poetry, &c. The Classics cum Notis Variorum, and by old Elziver; many of the Fathers of the Paris Editions, Greek and Latin; and near Eleven Hundred Volumes of Miscellaneous Tracts. Which will be sold cheap (the Price mark'd in each Book) at Edward Symon's shop, over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill, on Tuesday the 25th of this instant February, at Nine of the Clock in the Morning. Catalogues may be had Gratis at Oliver's Coffee-House, at Westminster-Hall Gate; Old-Man's at Charing-Cross; the Mount in Grosvenor-Street near Grosvenor-Square; Davys's in Covent-Garden; Richard's at Temple Bar; Farnival's in Holborn; the Chapter in Pater noster Row; and at the Place of Sale.
Date: 1723?]