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A sermon preached at sea, the 27th day of June, 1706. Being the day appointed for a general thanksgiving to Almighty God for the signal success wherewith he has been pleased to bless Her Majesty's arms in Flanders and Spain. By J.N. M.A.
J. N.Date: 1706- Books
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Opera mineralia explicata: or, The mineral kingdom, within the dominions of Great Britain, display'd. Being a compleat history of the antient corporations of the city of London, of and for the mines and minerals and the battery works. With all the original grants, leases, instruments, writs of privilege and protection, by sea and land, from arrest (except in the mineral courts); or being prest, or serving juries and parish-offices: as also the records of the said mineral courts, from the conquest, down to this present year, 1713. Likewise proposals for new settlements and plentiful provision for all the industrious poor be their number ever to great. By M.S. M.D.
M. S. (Moses Stringer).Date: [1713]- Books
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Report on the cholera which visited Her Majesty's Black sea Fleet in the autumn of 1854 / By B.G. Babington, M.D.
Babington, B. G. (Benjamin Guy), 1794-1866.Date: [1854?]- Books
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Opera mineralia explicata: or, The mineral kingdom, within the dominions of Great Britain, display'd. Being a compleat history of the antient corporations of the City of London, of and for the mines, the mineral and the battery works. With all the original grants, leases, instruments, writs of privilege and protection, by sea and land, from arrest (except in the mineral courts); or being prest, or serving juries and parish-offices: as also the records of the said mineral courts, from the conquest, down to this present year, 1713. Likewise proposals for new settlements and plentiful provision for all the industrious poor, be their number ever so great. By M.S. M.D.
M. S. (Moses Stringer).Date: [1713]- Books
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A new journey to France; with an exact description of the sea-coast from London to Calais, and of the Roads from thence to Orleans, and back again to Dieppe: Giving an Account of the present Condition of that Country. Intermixt with several diverting Adventures and Transactions that happen'd there lately. The whole very Pleasant and Useful for such as Travel that way.
Date: 1715- Pictures
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French sailors throwing manacled black soldiers off a ship into the a sea populated by large carnivorous animals. Engraving by J. Barlow after M. Rainsford.
Rainsford, Marcus, active 1805.Reference: 43609i- Books
The sea / By Robert Mudie.
Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842.Date: 1835- Pictures
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A rock beauty, a black angel fish, a blue angel fish and a french angel fish swimming in the sea. Colour line block after H. Murayama.
Murayama, Hashime, 1879-1954.Date: 1900-1999Reference: 42024i- Digital Images
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Islamic map of the world. The north is at the bottom, with the west to the right surrounded by unknown seas. The Indian Ocean, with the Red Sea, is on the left, with China, India and Iran in boxes to the right. The other sea shown is the Mediterranean next to which is a black square indicating Rome and a circle Constantinople. The Nile flows from the Mediterranean to the east and into the north then turn east and head towards a large circle indicating its source in Africa.
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Lyell Johnson & Fred Groome.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2044757iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
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Some remarkable passages relating to Archbishop Laud, Particularly of his Affection to the Church of Rome. Being the Twenty Second Chapter of Gage's Survey of the West-Indies, as 'twas printed in the Folio Edition before the Restoration, but supprest in the Octavo since.
Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.Date: 1712- Archives and manuscripts
Seaside with black water (artwork)
Date: c.1989Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/1/6/6Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Pictures
Sebastopol: view from the redan towards the sea. Tinted lithograph by Lady A. Blackwood, 1857.
Blackwood, Alicia, Lady.Date: 1857Reference: 2136656i- Books
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Upon the death of the truly valiant and magnanimous Sr. Christoph. Minns : wounded at sea.
Date: 1666- Books
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The longitude demonstrated, by the use of a silent pendulum; that keeps true time at sea. And made plain (by an Index Instrument) to the meanest Capacity. With a new observatory for finding the meridian altitude of sun or stars, and a great Improvement of the Sun-Quadrant; which are more exact than any heretofore known: With fair Copper Cuts of the Machine, and all the other Instruments. And a table of the acceleration of fixed stars, more exact than any heretofore extant; with the Sun's Declination, Right Ascension, and Equation of Time; and other useful Tables fitted to this Work. An Experiment of what Proportion a Pendulum lengthens in the greatest Heat, where Animals can live, or Vegetables grow; and at several other Degrees of Heat, to red-hot. With a Method to make a Pendulum to fit all Climates; with several other uncommon Experiments. By Jonah Crathorne.
Crathorne, Jonah.Date: 1718- Pictures
Below, a woman in a forest; above. grey and black forms. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1956.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 6 Jan 56 [6 January 1956]Reference: 2969681iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
Multicolour planes textured and shaped in different ways, crossed by a yellow diagonal and a sea-green diagonal. Watercolour by G. Gurr, 1983.
Gurr, Graham, active approximately 1976-Date: 14.12.83 [14 December 1983]Reference: 2971485iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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Waterman: The sea-mans almanack and prognostication for the year of our Lord god, 1655 : Being the third from bissextile or leap-year: wherein is contained the hour and minute of full sea or high-water (for every day in the year) at all the chiefest ports in and adjoyning to these three ... (the like not set forth by any other.) Excellent tables for sea-men and others, to finde the hour of the night by the stars without an instrument; with other things of good use. Calculated for the meridian of London by Andrew Waterman mariner.
Waterman, Andrew, marinerDate: 1655- Books
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The British mariner's directory and guide to the trade and navigation of the Indian and China seas. Containing instructions for navigating from Europe to India and China. And from port to port in those regions, and parts adjacent: With an account of the trade, mercantile habits, manners, and customs of the natives / [Hattie Maen Elmore].
Elmore, Hattie Maen.Date: 1802- Ephemera
Parkinsons' Natural Health Salt : "refreshing as sea breezes"... "a spoonful a day keeps illness away" : recommended by the medical profession / R. Parkinson & Sons.
R. Parkinson & Sons.Date: [1900?]- Books
A voyage into the Levant ... Containing the antient and modern state of the islands of the archipelago; as also of Constantinople, the coasts of the Black sea, Armenia, Georgia, the frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor / With plans of the principal towns and places of note; an account of the genius, manners, trade, and religion of the respective people inhabiting those parts: and an explanation of variety of medals and antique monuments ... By M. Tournefort ... To which is prefixed the author's life, in a letter to M. Begon [by P.J.B. Lauthier]: as also his elogium, pronounc'd by M. Fontenelle ... Adorn'd with an accurate map of the author's travels, not in the French edition: done by Mr. Senex.
Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708.Date: 1718- Pictures
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Frankie Alston, an HIV positive woman, sits with one knee up on a bench looking out to sea; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 667391i- Books
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Ocean rainfall : with charts and tables, 1864-1875 / by W.G. Black.
Black, William George, 1857-1932.Date: [1878]- Archives and manuscripts
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'Colonsay May 1961' and diary of sea trip to the Indian Ocean, 20 Dec 1961-3 Jan 1962
Date: 1961-1962Reference: PP/CPB/A.6/7Part of: Blacker, Carlos Paton FRCP (1895-1975)- Pictures
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A ribbed condom against a black background representing a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Departemento de Enfermedades de Transmision Sexual, Venezuela. Colour lithograph, ca.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 679185i