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Geography: a water spout in the South Atlantic Ocean. Coloured lithograph by A. Aglio, 1824, after P. Schmidtmeyer.
Schmidtmeyer, Peter.Date: [1824]Reference: 46893i- Pictures
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Possession Bay in South Georgia, southern Atlantic Ocean. Engraving by S. Smith, 1777, after W. Hodges, 1775.
Hodges, William, 1744-1797.Date: Feb.ry 1st 1777Reference: 566146i- Books
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Examination of some deep soundings from the Atlantic Ocean ; On some new localities of fossil Diatomaceae in California and Oregon / by J.W. Bailey.
Bailey, Jacob Whitman, 1811-1857.Date: 1854- Books
A journey across South America : from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean / by Paul Marcoy [pseud.] ; illustrated with 600 engravings on wood, drawn by E. Riou, and 12 maps, printed in colours, from drawings by the author.
Marcoy, Paul.Date: 1873- Books
A voyage to Senegal; or, historical, philosophical, and political memoirs, relative to the discoveries, establishments and commerce of Europeans in the Atlantic Ocean, from Cape Blanco to the River of Sierra Leone. To which is added an account of a journey from Isle St. Louis to Galam / By J.P. [!] L. Durand ... Translated from the French, & embellished with numerous engravings.
Durand, Jean Baptiste Léonard, 1742-1812.Date: 1806- Books
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Gulliver revived: Containing singular travels, campaigns, voyages and adventures in Russia, the Caspian Sea, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibralter, up the mediterranean, on the Atlantic Ocean, and through the centre of Mount Etna into the South Sea: also an account of a voyage into the Moon and Dogstar, with many extraordinary particulars, relative to the cooking animal in those planets, which are here called the human species. By Baron Munchausen.
Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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A voyage to the South Atlantic and round cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean, for the purpose of extending the spermaceti whale fisheries, and other objects of commerce, by ascertaining the ports, bays, harbours, and anchoring births, in certain islands and coasts in those seas at which the ships of the British merchants might be refitted. Undertaken and performed by Captain James Colnett, of the Royal Navy, in the ship Rattler.
Colnett, James, 1755?-1806.Date: 1798- Books
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Gulliver revived: containing singular travels, campaigns, voyages, and adventures in Russia, the Caspian Sea, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, on the Atlantic Ocean, and through the centre of Mount Etna into the South Sea: Also An Account of a Voyage into the Moon and Dog-Star, with many extraordinary Particulars, relative to the Cooking Animal in those Planets, which are here called the Human Species. By Baron Munchausen.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
The Foraminifera of the Atlantic ocean / by Joseph Augustine Cushman.
Cushman, Joseph A. (Joseph Augustine), 1881-1949.Date: 1918-1931- Books
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Gulliver revived: or, the vice of lying properly exposed containing singular travels, campaigns, voyages, and adventures in Russia, the Caspian Sea, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, on the Atlantic Ocean, and through the centre of Mount Ætna into the South Sea. Also, an account of a voyage into the moon and dog-star; with many extraordinary particulars relative to the cooking animal in those planets, which are there called the human species. By Baron Munchausen.
Date: 1799- Books
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A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world; in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the north Pacific and north Atlantic oceans; and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver. In three volumes.
Vancouver, George, 1757-1798.Date: 1798- Books
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A voyage of discovery to the north Pacific Ocean, and round the world; in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's command principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the north Pacific and north Atlantic Oceans; and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795. In the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver ... / [George Vancouver].
Vancouver, George, 1757-1798.Date: 1801- Books
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The ocean is a wilderness : Atlantic piracy and the limits of state authority, 1688-1856 / Guy Chet.
Chet, Guy, 1968-Date: [2014], ©2014- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. The Brigantine Triumph, Benjamin Northam, Master. James Graham, of London, Merchant, the Agent for, and Correspondent of, Thomas Ogden and Titus Ogden, and Messieurs John Wright Stanly, Wright Stanly, and James Green, Merchants, all of the Town of Newborn, in the State of North Carolina, one of the United States of America, and Subjects of the said United States, the sole Owners of the said Brigantine and her Cargo at the Time she was taken and seized as Prize, on the twenty-eighth Day of March, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, in the Atlantic Ocean, between the thirty-third and thirty-fourth Degrees of Northern Latitude, twenty-five Days after the Cessation of Hostilities between his Majesty and the said United States of America, in the said Atlantic Ocean, and Claimant of the said Brigantine and her Cargo on Behalf of the said Owners, Appellant. William Swiney, Esquire, Commander of his Majesty's Ship of War the Assurance, the Captor, and James Heseltine, Esquire, his Majesty's Procurator General, - - - - Respondents. An Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of East Florida. The appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785]- Books
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The great probability of a North West Passage: deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte, who sailed from the Callao of Lima on the discovery of a communication between the South Sea and the Atlantic Ocean; And to intercept some Navigators from Boston in New England, whom he met with, Then in Search of a North West Passage. Proving the authenticity of the Admiral's letter. With three explanatory maps . 1st. A Copy of an authentic Spanish Map of America, published in 1608. 2d. The Discoveries made in Hudson's Bay, by Capt. Smith, in 1746 and 1747. 3d. A General Map of the Discoveries of Admiral de Fonte. By Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the King. With an appendix. Containing the account of a discovery of part of the coast and inland country of Labrador, made in 1753. The Whole intended for The Advancement of Trade and Commerce.
Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Pictures
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Laying a cable on the Atlantic seabed: the crew of the Great Eastern launching a buoy in an attempt to retrieve a lost cable. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker, 1866, after R.C. Dudley.
Dudley, Robert Charles, 1826-1909.Date: 1856Reference: 44509i- Pictures
The ship of Christopher Columbus is visited by an angel who warns him to return to Europe through the storms of the Atlantic. Engraving by E. Goodall after J.M.W. Turner.
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.Date: 1834Reference: 524646i- Books
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Women in Port : Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800 / edited by Douglas Catterall and Jodi Campbell.
Date: 2012- Books
Oceanic ichthyology : a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures / by George Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean.
Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896.Date: [1895]- Books
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Miscellaneous letters on several subjects in philosophy and astronomy. Wrote to the learned Dr. Nicholson, late Archbishop of Cashell. Viz. I. An account of the great variety of plants, shell-stones, and many other Curiosities, in the parish of Magilligan, in the County of Londonderry in Ireland; together with a curious Account of the forming the Land, being formerly under Sea. II. On the Declension of the Level of the Sea. III. On the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Light. IV. On the Irish Bogs, Timber found under these Bogs, and several curious Remarks on the first Planting the World and Ireland, drawn from the Natural History of such Bogs and Timber. V. On the General Tides in the Atlantic Ocean, by a New Hypothesis, and that the Moon hath no Influence on the Tides. VI. On the Cause of Gravity, and the Continuation of Motion, by a New and Curious Hypothesis. Vii. On the Load-Stone, that the Old Hypotheses were Insufficient, and a new one drawn from the Northern Light. Viii. An endeavour to clear astronomy of the incredible, by a new System of the World, wherein the Projectile Power, and Gravitating Principles of Sir Isaac Newton, are proved to be not according to Nature, and Impossible; and that the Theory of the Moon is particularly very ill accounted for by Sir Isaac's Principles; and New Principles, drawn from the Nature of Fluids, and a repelling Power in the Sun, and that the long Telescopes help to deceive us. By Robert Innes, A.M.
Innes, Robert.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]- Books
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Memoir of a chart of the Southern Ocean.
Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808.Date: 1769]- Books
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The substance of two speeches in the House of Commons of Ireland, on the 25th and 26th of March, 1776, on the subject of fisheries. With some additions necessary more fully to explain the fishing trade.
O'Brien, Lucius Henry, Sir, -1795.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The baleen whales of the South Atlantic / by Sir William Turner.
Turner, Wm. (William), Sir, 1832-1916.Date: 1914- Books
Slavery at sea : terror, sex, and sickness in the middle passage / Sowande' M. Mustakeem.
Mustakeem, Sowande' M., 1978-Date: [2016]- Pictures
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Slave ships on the ocean. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1858.
Date: [1858]Reference: 37945i