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Correspondence with Oxford University Press and the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee, USA, re pirate reprint of Studies in deficiency disease
Date: 1951Reference: GC/205/B/3Part of: McCarrison, Sir Robert (1878-1960)- Pictures
Sculpture on the choragic monument of Lysicrates, Athens: Dionysus seizes a bough from a tree while a pirate is turned into a dolphin. Engraving by J. Basire, 1762.
Stuart, James, 1713-1788.Date: 1762Reference: 2189099i- Books
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Hobbinol, or the rural games. A burlesque poem, in blank verse. By William Somervile, Esq,
Somervile, William, 1675-1742.Date: M,DCCXL. [1740]- Books
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Hobbinol, or the rural games. A burlesque poem, in blank verse. By William Somervile Esq;
Somervile, William, 1675-1742.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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The history of the bucaniers of America. Containing I. The exploits and adventures of Le Grand, Lolonois, Roche, Brasiliano, Bat the Portuguese, Sir Henry Morgan, &c. II. The dangerous Voyage and bold Attempts of Capt. Sharp, Watlin, Sawkins, C xon, and others in the South-Sea. III. A Journal of a Voyage into the South-Sea, by the Free booters of America, from 1684 to 1689. IV. A relation of a voyage of the Sieur de Montauban, Captain of the Free-Booters in Guinea, in Year, 1695. Exhibiting A particular Account and Description of Porto Bello, Chagre, Panama, Caba, Havanna, and most of the Spanish Possessions on the Coasts of the West-Indies, and also all along the Coasts of the South-Sea; with the manner in which they have been invaded, attempted, or taken by those Adventurers. The whole written in several languages by persons present at the transactions. Translated into English, and illustrated with maps. Vol. I.
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)Date: [1741]- Books
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A short state of the case, with relation to a claim made by Richard Francklin, bookseller, on David Mallet, Esq; on account of some copies which are inserted in the works of the late Lord Bolingbroke, publish'd by Mr. Mallet, and which were originally printed by Richard Francklin.
Francklin, Richard, -1765.Date: Printed in the Year, 1754- Books
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A short state of the case, with relation to a claim made by Richard Francklin, bookseller, on David Mallet, Esq; on account of some copies, which are inserted in the works of the late Lord Bolingbroke, publish'd by Mr. Mallet, and which were originally printed by Richard Francklin.
Francklin, Richard, -1765.Date: 1754]- Books
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Hobbinol, or the rural games. A burlesque poem, in blank verse. By William Somervile Esq;
Somervile, William, 1675-1742.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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The history of the bucaniers of America. Containing, I. The exploits and adventures of Le Grand, Lolonois, Roche Brasiliano, Bat the Portuguese, Sir Henry Morgan, &c. II. The dangerous Voyage and bold Attempts of Capt. Sharp, Watlin, Sawkins, Coxon, and others in the South-Sea. III. A Journal of a Voyage into the South-Sea by the Freebooters of America, from 1684 to 1689. IV. A relation of a voyage of the Sieur de Montauban, Captain of the Freebooters in Guinea in the Year 1695. Exhibiting A particular Account and Description of Porto Bello, Charge, Panama, Cuba, Havanna, and most of the Spanish Possessions on the Coasts of the West-Indies, and also all along the Coasts of the South-Sea; with the Manner in which they have been invaded, attempted, or taken by these Adventurers. The whole written in several languages by persons present at the transactions. Translated into English, and illustrated with copper-plates. In two volumes.
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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Lord Coalston reporter. Information for Alexander Donaldson and John Wood, booksellers in Edinburgh, and James Meurose, bookseller in Kilmarnock, defenders; against John Hinton, bookseller in London, and Alexander M'Conochie, Writer in Edinburgh, his attorney, pursuers.
Donaldson, Alexander, -1794.Date: 1773]- Books
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Hobbinol, or the rural games. A burlesque poem, in blank verse. By William Somervile Esq;
Somervile, William, 1675-1742.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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An ordinance, to amend an ordinance, entitled, "An ordinance for establishing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas."
United States.Date: 1783]- Books
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A compendious history of the Indian Wars; with an account of the rise, progress, strength, and forces of Angria the Pyrate. Also the transactions of a squadron of men of war under Commodore Matthews, sent to the East-Indies to suppress the pyrates. To which is annex'd, a additional history of the wars between the Great Mogul, Angria, and his Allies. With an account of the life and Actions of John Plantain, a notorious pyrate at Madagascar; his Wars with the Natives on that Island, where having continued eight Years, he join'd Angria, and was made his chief Admiral. By Clement Downing, Midshipman on board the Salisbury; afterwards Lieutenant of the Victory Frigate, Fame Gally, and Revenge Grab, part of the Squndron employ'd by the East-India Company to attack Angria; and sometime Engineer in the Service of the Great Mogul.
Downing, Clement.Date: M.DCC.XXXVII. [1737]- Books
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The life and adventures of Capt. John Avery, the famous English pirate, (rais'd from a cabbin-boy, to a King) now in possession of Madagascar. ...
Broeck, Adrian van.Date: 1709]- Books
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A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time. With the remarkable actions and adventures of the two female pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny; contain'd in the following chapters, Introduction. Chap.I. Of Capt. Avery. II. Of Capt. Martel. III. Of Capt. Teach. IV. Of Capt. Eonnet. V. Of Capt. England. VI. Of Capt. Vane. Vii. Of Capt. Rackam. Viii. Of Capt. Davis. IX. Of Capt. Roberts. X. Of Capt. Anstis. XI. Of Capt. Worley. XII. Of Capt. Lowther. XIII. Of Capt. Low. XIV. Of Capt. Evans. XV. Of Capt. Phillips. XVI. Of Capt. Spriggs. XVII. Of Capt. Smith. And their several Crews. To which is added, A short Abstract of the Statute and Civil Law, in Relation to Pyracy. By Captain Charles Johnson.
Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1736.Date: 1725- Books
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The Spanish crown and the defense of the Caribbean, 1535-1585 : precedent, patrimonialism, and royal parsimony / Paul E. Hoffman.
Hoffman, Paul E., 1943-Date: [1980], ©1980- Books
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An authentick and faithful history of that arch-pyrate Tulagee Angria. With a curious Narrative of the Siege and taking of the Town and Fortress of Geriah, and the Destruction of his whole Naval Force, by Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive. To which is added, an account of his predecessors, the Angrias, who, for upwards of forty Years, have carried on their Depredations in the East-Indies: The Methods they took to obtain and preserve the Power of Sovereign Princes, and to be a Terror not only to the European Traders, but to the Great Mogul himself. Also A full Account of their Dominions, Forts, Harbours, and Forces by Sea and Land, and of the several Attempts made by this Nation to subdue them. In a letter to a merchant in London, from his brother, a factor at Bombay, who was present in the late Expedition.
Date: M.DCC.LVI. [1756]- Books
Savage sword of Conan. Vol.1, no. 22, The pool of the black one / script: Roy Thomas ; art: John Buscema and Sonny Trinidad.
Thomas, Roy, 1940-Date: 1977- Books
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Piracy destroy'd: or, a short discourse shewing ther rise, growth and causes of piracy of late; with a sure method how to put a speedy stop to that growing evil. Humbly offered to the consideration of the present Parliament. In a letter from an officer of an East-India ship lately arriv'd in the river, to the deputy governour of the East-India-Company, London.
Date: 1701- Books
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The Trials of five persons for piracy, felony and robbery, who were found guilty and condemned, at a Court of Admiralty for the trial of piracies, felonies and robberies, committed on the high seas, held at the court-house in Boston, within His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on Tuesday the fourth day of October, anno domini, 1726. Pursuant to His Majesty's royal commission, founded on an act of Parliament made in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of King William the Third, entituled, An act for the more effectual suppression of piracy; and made perpetual by an act of the sixth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord King George.
Date: 1726- Books
Sodomy and the perception of evil : English sea rovers in the seventeenth-century Caribbean / B.R. Burg.
Burg, B. R. (Barry Richard), 1938-Date: 1983- Books
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The Life and actions of that [f]amous English pirate captain Avery [pu]blish'd for the satisfaction of the world to prevent the many falsities that he lies under. Written by his own hand[.]
Date: [1710?]- Books
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Circuit Court of the United States, Middle Circuit of the New-Jersey district. The United States, (a.) William Brigstock, other-wise called John Johnston. Indictment for murder. ...
Brigstock, William.Date: 1800]- Books
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The whole life and conversation, birth, parentage, and educations of Thomas Browning, and Jeremiah Clark. Who was [sic] executed on Tuesday the 27th of May, at Tyburn ... By Paul Larrain, ...
Lorrain, P. (Paul), -1719.Date: 1712- Pictures
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Three children standing in a street wearing the costumes of a witch, a lion and a pirate; an advertisement about the AIDS Forum Berlin e.V. supporting children and their families affected by AIDS and HIV. Photocopy.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 673436i