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A dissertation on the antiquity and use of seals in England. Collected by **** 1736.
Lewis, John, 1675-1747.Date: M.DCC.XL. [1740]- Books
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The chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Norman Conquest unto the present time. Written in the manner of the ancient Jewish historians. By Nathan ben Saddi, A Priest of the Jews.
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.Date: MDCCLXVVII [1777?]- Books
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The mariners new kalendar. Containing the principles of arithmetick and geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots. Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, Declination, and Right Ascension. Of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed-Stars. Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. A large table of difference of latitude and departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, Fore-Staff and Nocturnal. The Problems of Plain-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale. A Tide Table. The Courses and Distances on the Coast of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, &c. And the Soundings coming into the Channel. With Directions for failing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematicks. Whereunto is added Sailing by Mercator's chart. By John Colson, Teacher of the Mathematicks.
Colson, Nathaniel, active 1674.Date: 1706- Books
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The seaman's practice: containing a fundamental problem in navigation, experimentally verified: Namely, Touching the Compass of the Earth and Sea, and the Quantity of a Degree in our English Measures. Also An exact Method or Form of keeping a Reckoning or Journal at Sea, in any kind or manner of Sailing. With certain Tables and other Rules used in Navigation. The Latitude of the Principal Places in England: The Variation of the Compass: The finding of the Currents at Sea, and what Allowance is to be given in respect of them. By Richard Norwood, Reader of the Mathematicks.
Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675.Date: MDCCXII. [1712]- Books
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The English pilot. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the river Amazones. Particularly delineating the coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, and anchorage, with all the islands therein; as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also a new description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, &c. shewing the courses and distances from one place to another; the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents. &c. With many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]