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Remarks, in support of the new chart of North and South America; in six sheets. By J. Green, Esq;
Green, John, -1757.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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On the temperature of the sea around the coasts of Scotland, during the years 1857 and 1858 : and the bearing of the facts on the theory that the mild climate of Great Britain, during winter, is dependent on the Gulf Stream : with a chart of the currents in the north Atlantic : read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 3d Jan. 1859 / by James Stark.
Stark, James, 1814-1883.Date: 1859- Books
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A vindication of divine providence; derived from a philosophic and moral survey of nature and of man. By James Henry Bernardin de Saint Pierre. Author of The studies of nature. [One line of quotation in Latin] Translated by Henry Hunter, D.D. Minister of the Scots Church London Wall.
Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814.Date: 1797- Books
The custom of the sea / Neil Hanson.
Hanson, Neil.Date: 1999- 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
Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world / James H. Sweet.
Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)Date: [2011], ©2011- Books
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An abstract of various penal and other statutes relating to the revenue of customs, from 28 Edw. III. to 32 Geo. III. inclusive, for the Use of Merchants, Brokers, and Officers of the Customs in general, and the Masters of Trading Vessels in particular, Digested Under the Following Heads, viz. Inwards, Outwards, and Coastwise. Including particularly the smuggling acts, manifest acts, register acts, and the corn act; Together with the Laws in, and subsequent to, 1786, relating to the Southern, Greenland and Newfoundland Fisheries. To which are added, Lists of Goods prohibited to be Imported and Exported; as also a List of Goods on Importation Duty Free. With Notes and Observations to the Whole. By James Earnshaw, One of the Solicitors for His Majesty's Customs. ...
Earnshaw, James.Date: [1793]-99- Books
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Observations on the passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, in two memoirs on the Straits of Anian, and the discoveries of De Fonte. Elucidated by a new and original map To which is prefixed an Historical Abridgement of Discoveries in the North of America. By William Goldson
Goldson, William.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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An authentick relation of the many hardships and sufferings of a Dutch sailor, who was put on shore on the uninhabited isle of Ascension, by Order of the Commadore of a Squadron of Dutch Ships. With A Remarkable Account of his Converse with Apparitions and Evil Spirits, during his Residence on the Island. And A particular Diary of his Transactions from the Fifth of May to the Fourteenth of October, on which Day he perished in a miserable Condition. Taken from the original journal, found in his Tent by some sailors, who landed from on Board the Compton, Captain Morson Commander, in January 1725/6.
Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
Ship of death : a voyage that changed the Atlantic world / Billy G. Smith.
Smith, Billy G. (Billy Gordon)Date: [2013]- Books
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Summary observations and facts collected from late and authentic accounts of Russian and other navigators, to show The Practicability and good Prospect of Success in Enterprises to discover a Northern Passage For Vessels by Sea, between The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, or nearly to approach The North Pole; For which the Offers of Reward are renewed by a late Act of Parliament.
Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The navigator's guide, to The Oriental or Indian Seas: or, the description and use of a variation chart of the magnetic needle, designed for shewing the longitude, throughout the principal parts of the Atlantic, Ethiopic, and Southern Oceans; Within a degree, or sixty miles. With an Introductory Discourse, concerning the Discovery of the Magnetic Variation, the finding of the Longitude thereby, and several useful Tables. By S. Dunn, Teacher of Mathematics, London.
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: [1775]- Pictures
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Telegraph house, Newfoundland: telegraph workers smoking and reading papers in their mess. Coloured lithograph by G.M. McCulloch, 1866, after R.C. Dudley, 1858.
Dudley, Robert Charles, 1826-1909.Date: 1866Reference: 473428i- Books
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The most surprising adventures, and wonderful life of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner. Containing a full and particular account how his ship was lost in a storm, and all his companions were drowned, and he only was cast upon the shore by the wreck; and how he lived eight and twenty years in an uninhabited island, on the coast of America, &c. With a true relation how he was at last miraculously preserved by pirates, &c. &c. &c.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1795- Books
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The wonderful life, and surprizing adventures of that renowned hero, Robinson Crusoe, who lived twenty-eight years on an uninhabited island, which he afterwards colonised.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1794?]- Books
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The history of Oregon : geographical and political / by George Wilkes.
Wilkes, George.Date: 1845- Books
Connecting women : national and international networks during the long nineteenth century / edited by Barton C. Hacker, Joanne Paisana, Margarida Esteves Pereira, Jaime Costa, and Margaret Vining.
Date: 2021- Pictures
Earl Howe on the quarter-deck of HMS Queen Charlotte during the sea battle of the First of June, 1794. Stipple engraving by D. Orme after M. Brown, 1795.
Brown, Mather, 1761-1831.Date: 1795Reference: 548349i- 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]- Pictures
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A Basque woman posing with an earthenware jug on her head.
Reference: 530745iPart of: Photographic portraits: Basque.- Pictures
A Basque woman with her arms folded posing with an earthenware jug on her head.
Reference: 530757iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- 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]- Archives and manuscripts
Mariculture administrative material (Mariculture's case for continuing to sell products from Cholonia Mydas)
Date: 1973-1975Reference: PP/AMO/F/1/6Part of: Amoroso, Professor Emmanuel Ciprian CBE, FRCP, FRS (1901-1982)- Books
Surveying the record : North American scientific exploration to 1930 / edited by Edward C. Carter II.
Date: 1999- Books
River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom / Walter Johnson.
Johnson, Walter, 1967-Date: 2013