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A poem occasion'd by the rise and fall of South-Sea stock. Humbly dedicated to the merchant-adventurers trading in the south-seas. By J. B Gent.
J. B., Gent.Date: 1720- 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 free-booters [of] America, from 1684 to [16]89. IV. A rela[tion] of a voyage of the Sieur de Montauban, captain of the free-booters in Guinea, in the year, 1695. Exhibiting a particular account and description of Porto Bello, Chagre, 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 those adventurers. The whole written in several languages by persons present at the transactions. Translated into English, and illustrated with maps. In two volumes.
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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Jesina. or, delusive gold. A pastoral. Lamenting the misfortunes of a young lady of quality, ruined by South-Sea stock. By Mr. Foxton.
Foxton, Thomas, 1697-1769.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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The sea-Surgeon, or the Guinea man's vade mecum. In which is laid down, the method of curing such diseases as usually happen abroad, especially on the coast of Guinea; with the best way of treating Negroes, both in Health and in Sickness. Written for the Use of young Sea Surgeons, by T. Aubrey, M. D. Who resided many Years on the Coast of Guinea.
Aubrey, T.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
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The south Sea fortune, or the chaplain advanced to the saddle. Containing the genuine private memoirs of a worthy family in Gloucestershire, fro the fatal year 1720, to the year 1748. Written by Mrs. Richwould, one of the most interested parties. Vol. I.
Richwould, Mrs.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- 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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God's protecting providence, man's surest help and defence, in times of greatest difficulty, and most eminent danger, evidenced in the remarkable deliverance of Robert Barrow, with divers other persons, from the devouring Waves of the Sea, amongst which they suffered Shipwreck; and also from the cruel devouring Jaws of the inhuman canibals of Florida. Faithfully related by one of the persons concern'd therein, Jonathan Dickenson.
Dickinson, Jonathan, 1663-1722.Date: 1759- Books
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The hermit: or, the unparallel'd sufferings and surprising adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman: who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island in the South-Sea; where he has lived above Fifty Years, without any Human Assistance; still continues to reside, and will not come away. Containing, I. His Conferences with Those who found him out; to whom he recites the most material Circumstances of his Life; as, that he was born in the Parish of St. Giles, educated by the charitable Contribution of a Lady, and put Prentice to a Locksmith. II. How he left his Master, and was taken up with a notorious House-Breaker, who was hanged; how, after his Escape, he went to Sea a Cabin-Boy, married a famous Whore, listed himself a common Soldier, turned Singing-Master, and married three Wives, for which he was tried and condemned at the Old-Baily. III. How he was pardoned by King Charles II. turned Merchant, and was shipwrecked on this desolate Island on the Coast of Mexico. With a curious map of the island, and other cuts.
Longueville, Peter, active 1727.Date: 1751- Books
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A practical method, To Discover the Longitude at Sea, By a New Contrived Automaton. Freed from all the Various Effects of Air in different Climates, &c. And not Liable to Disorder by the Irregular Motion of a Ship. The whole Method Rendered Plain and Easie to be Understood by every Mariner. With an account of the author's new instrument for taking the latitude more accurately at sea, than hath hitherto been practised. Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration, and Use of the Publick. By John Ward. of Chester. Author of the Young Mathematicians Guide, &c.
Ward, John, active 1698-1709.Date: [1714]- Books
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An address to the proprietors of the South-Sea capital. Containing, a discovery of the illicit trade, carry'd on in the West-Indies; and shewing the great Detriment thereof to the Publick; and the Necessity of Discouraging it with Rigour, notwithstanding the Pains taken to gloss it over; and to Recommend your cautious and tender Resentments. By a proprietor of the said company.
Proprietor of the said company.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]- Books
Via regia ad geometriam. The way to geometry. Being necessary and usefull, for astronomers. Geographers. Landmeaters. Sea-men. Engineres. Architecks. Carpenters. Paynters. Carvers, &c / Written in Latine by Peter Ramvs, and now translated and much enlarged by the learned Mr. William Bedwell.
Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572.Date: 1636- Books
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The london polite songster: being, a new and choice collection of the most approved English and Scotch songs, airs, catches, &c. now in vogue, Including those Sung at the Places of Public Diversion, viz. Vaux Hall, Ranelagh, &c. Also at the Societies of Free Masons, Bucks, Sea Serjeants, True Britons, Choice Spirits, Bloods, &c. In two volumes.
Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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A cruising voyage round the world: first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish'd in 1711. Containing A Journal of all the remarkable Transactions; particularly of the taking of Puna and Guiaquil, of the Acapulca Ship, and other Prizes: An Account of Alexander Selkirk's living alone four Years and four Months in an Island; and a brief Description of several Countries in our Course noted for Trade, especially in the South-Sea. With maps of all the Coast, from the best Spanish Manuscript Draughts. And an Introduction relating to the South-Sea Trade. By Captain Woodes Rogers, Commander in Chief in this Expedition, with the Ships Duke and Dutchess of Bristol.
Rogers, Woodes, -1732.Date: M.DCC.XVIII. [1718]- Books
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Columna rostrata: or, a history of the English sea-affairs. With an account of the most remarkable sea-fights, &c. between the English, French, Dutch, Spaniards, &c. Containing, among many other curious Particulars, the following: The Sea-Fight between Admiral Blake and Van Trump, the Dutch Admiral. Admiral Byng's Engagement with the Spanish Fleet off Sicily; with an Account of his hindering the Pretender's Landing in Scotland. An Account of the Dutch destroying several of our Men of War at Chatham. An Account of the taking and destroying the Spanish Galeons, by Admiral Blake, Sir George Rooke, and Sir Charles Wager. Sir John Norris's Expedition to Portugal. An Account of the taking Gibralter, by Sir George Rooke, and his Engagement with the French Fleet off Malaga. Sir Cloudsley Shovel's Naval Actions. With an Account of the Shipwreck in which he was lost. An Account of the taking Vigerus. With several others. By Samuel Colliber.
Colliber, Samuel.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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A faithful account of the distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, mariner, and five other Englishmen; Who were taken prisoners by a Spanish pyrate; treated in the most inhuman manner; set on shore, on an uninhabited island, naked and wounded, and obliged to travel over land from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South-Sea, being 2400 miles. Containing many new and useful discoveries of the inland of those almost unknown parts of America; and an exact account of the manners, customs, and behaviour of the several Indians inhabiting so vast a tract of land. The second edition. To which is annexed, the travels of Mr. Nicholas Whithington, a factor in the East-Indies; containing his curious observations of the trade of those parts, their government and customs, and the barbarous usage he met with from the East-India Company, at his return home. Published from his original manuscript.
Cockburn, John, Mariner.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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A narrative of the dangers and distresses which befel Isaac Morris, and seven more of the crew, belonging to The Wager store-ship, which attended Commodore Anson, in his voyage to the South Sea: Containing An Account of their Adventures, after they were left by Bulkeley and Cummins, on an uninhabited Part of Patagonia, in South America; where they remained about Fifteen Months, 'till they were seized by a Party of Indians, and carried above a Thousand Miles into the Inland Country, with whom they resided upwards of Sixteen Months: After which they were carried to Buenos-Ayres, and ransomed by the Governor, who sent them on board the Asia, a Spanish Man of War, and confined them there above Thirteen Months; when the Asia sailed for Europe. Interspersed with a Description of the Manners and Customs of the Indians in that Part of the World, particularly their Manner of taking the Wild Horses in Hunting, as seen by the Author himself. The Whole Serving as a Supplement to Mr. Bulkeley's Journal, Campbell's Narrative, and Ld. Anson's Doyage. By I. Morris, late Midshipman of the Wager.
Morris, Isaac.Date: [1750?]- Books
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A new and accurate system of natural history; containing I. The history of quadrupedes, including Amphibious Animals, Frogs, and Lizards, with their Properties and Uses in Medicine. II. The History of Birds, with the Method of bringing up those of the singing Kind. III. The History of Fishes and Serpents, including Sea-Turtles, Crustaceous and Shell-Fishes; with their medicinal Uses. IV. The History of Insects, with their Properties and Uses in Medicine. V. The History of Waters, Earths, Stones, Fossils, and Minerals; with their Virtues, Properties, and Medicinal Uses: To which is added, the Method in which Linnaeus has treated these Subjects. VI. The history of vegetables, as well Foreign as Indigenous, including an Account of the Roots, Barks, Woods, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, Resins, Gums, and concreted Juices; as also their Properties, Virtues, and Uses in Medicine; together with the Method of cultivating those planted in Gardens. By R. Brookes, M. D. Author of the General Practice of Physic. In six volumes.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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A journey over land, from the Gulf of Honduras to the great South-Sea. Performed by John Cockburn, and five other Englishmen, viz. Thomas Rounce, Richard Banister, John Holland, Thomas Robinson, and John Ballman; Who were taken by a Spanish Guarda-Costa, in the John and Jane, Edward Burt Master, and set on Shoar at a Place called Forto-Cavalo, naked and wounded, as mentioned in several News-Papers of October, 1731. Containing, Variety of extraordinary Distresses and Adventures, and some New and Useful Discoveries of the Inland of those almost unknown Parts of America: As also, An exact Account of the Manners, Customs, and Behaviour of the several Indians inhabiting a Tract of Land of 2400 Miles; particularly of their Dispositions towards the Spaniards and English. To which is added, a curious piece, written in the reign of King James I. and never before printed, intitled, A brief discoverye of some things best worth noteinge in the travells of Nicholas Withington, a Factor in the East-Indiase.
Cockburn, John, Mariner.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
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The present state and regulations of the Church of Russia. Establish'd by the late Tsar's royal edict. Also in a second volume a collection of several tracts relating to his fleets, expedition to Derbent, &c. Translated from the originals in the Slavonian and Russian languages. With an accurate Map of the Caspian Sea. And a Preface to the Whole, wherein is contained a full and genuine Account of the Rise and Fall of Prince Menshikoff. By Tho. Consett, M. A. Late Chaplain to the British Factory in Russia, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Sciences in Berlin.
Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Archives and manuscripts
Biblical studies and the geography of the Bible lands
Date: 1870-1874Reference: MS.6838Part of: Beke, Charles Tilstone (1800-1874), Ph.D., Abyssinian explorer- Pictures
Egyptians on horseback being drowned in the Red Sea. Colour etching by the Comte de Caylus and woodcut by N. Le Sueur after G.F. Penni, il Fattore.
Penni, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1496-approximately 1528.Date: [1729]Reference: 3010880iPart of: Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France.- Books
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Some memoirs of the life and death of the Reverend Mr. John Shower, Late Minister of the Gospel in London. Wherein is inserted. An Account of his Travels through France, Italy, Germany and Holland, by a Learned Gentleman that was his Companion beyond Sea, and his intimate Friend ever since. Together with his funeral-sermon Preach'd at old-jury, July 10. 1715. By W. Tong.
Tong, William, 1662-1727.Date: 1716- Books
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A supplement to the Commentary on The book of common-prayer, &c. Containing, I. A Commentary on all the Occasional Offices, viz. the Form of Prayer to be used at Sea: The Forms for the Ordering Bishops, Priests and Deacons: for the Fifth of November; Thirtieth of January; Twenty ninth of May; and the Day of the Queen's happy Accession to the Crown. Wherein, besides the Explanation of the Texts and Rubricks, is treated of the Original and Progress of Navigation, Ships of War, and Sea-Fights. Of the [gree text] or Lower Orders, used in the ancient Church, Sub-Deacons, Readers, Acolyths, &c. Of the Apostolical Antiquity of the three Great Orders of Bishops, Priests and Deacons. Of the Age, Qualifications, &c. of Persons to be Ordained. Of the Diaconal Privileges at Synaxes, Baptisms, &c. The Rise and Downfal of, with the Mischiefs in several Ages accruing from, the Papal Supremacy. The Regal Supremacy maintain'd. Of external and internal Calls to the Ministry. Of Canonical Obedience and Imposition of Hands. Of the Dignity and Privileges of Presbyters, both in and out of Synods: Of their particular Qualifications, Stipulations, &c. Of the ancient Ordination Forms. Of Bishops, and their sole Right to Ordain; their Qualifications, &c. Of Archbishops and Metropolitans, their Preeminence and Power. A short History of the Powder Plot; and a Dissertation, shewing, That Resistance, Deposition and Murder of Princes, took their first Rise from the Pope, and his Dependents, contrary to Scripture, and the constant Doctrine of Christian Writers, for near twelve Centuries. Of the Civil War, the King's Murder, and the Restoration, with some short Memoirs concerning the present Reign. II. To which is added an Introduction to the Liturgy of the Church of England, written by way of Preface before Archbishop Land's Collection of various Readings out of the several Ancient Common-Prayer Books, being A brief Survey of the Times and Manners of the Reformation in Religion of the Churches of England and Scotland, and of the Liturgy, Rites, Ceremonies, and Discipline therein used and Controverted. With an Answer to all the Puritans Objections, before, at, and after the Conference at Hampton-Court. Printed by a Copy exactly compared with the Original Mss. in his Grace of Canterbury's Library at Lambeth. III. Offices out of the several Protestant Liturgies, and Rituals, that are not in the Liturgy of the Church of England. An Office for Women with Child. For private Confession to the Minister. For publick Confession. For Persons possessed with evil Spirits. For Persons troubled in Mind. For Malefactors both in Prison and at Execution. Forms for the Excommunicating and Restoring of Offenders. For Preparation to the Lord's Day. Morning and Evening Prayer for Families. Forms of Prayer for Preparation to the Communion. Form for publick Catechism. One to be used for our Protestant Brethren, in time of Distress or Persecution. By Will. Nicholls, D. D.
Nicholls, William, 1664-1712.Date: MDCCXI. [1711]- Books
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The hermit: or, the unparalled [sic] sufferings and surprising adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman. Who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited Island in the South-Sea; where he has lived above Fifty Years, without any human Assistance, still continues to reside, and will not come away. Containing I. His Conferences with Those who found him out, to whom he recites the most material Circumstances of his Life; as, that he was born in the Parish of St. Giles, educated by the charitable Contribution of a Lady, and put 'prentice to a Lock-Smith. II. How he left his Master, and was taken up with a notorious House-Breaker, who was hanged; how, after this Escape, he went to Sea a Cabbin-Boy, married a famous Whore, listed himself a common Soldier, turned Singing-Master, and married Three Wives, for which he was tried and condemned at the Old-Bailey. III. How he was pardoned by King Charles II. turned Merchant, and was ship-wracked on this desolate Island on the Coast of Mexico. With a curious Map of the Island, and other Cuts.
Longueville, Peter, active 1727.Date: 1727- Books
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The illustrious and renowned history of the seven famous champions of Christendom. In three parts. Containing their Honourable Births, Victories, and Noble Atchievements by Sea and Land, in divers strange Countries: Their Combats with Giants, Monsters, &c. Wonderful Adventures, Fortunes and Misfortunes, in Desarts, Wildernesses, and Inchanted Castles: Their Conquests of Empires and Kingdoms, relieving distressed Ladies, with their faithful Love to them: The Honour they won in Tilts and Tournaments, and Success against the Enemies of Christendom. Also, With The Heroic Adventures of St. George's Three Sons. And The Manner of their Untimely Deaths: Also how they came to be stiled Saints, and Champions of Christendom.
Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?.Date: 1766