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A letter to the electors of Great Britain. By James Sutherland, Esq. Late Judge of the Admiralty at Minorca.
Sutherland, James, -1791.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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Report of the Committee appointed by the Admiralty to consider the humane slaughtering of animals, with appendix.
Great Britain. Committee on Humane Slaughtering of Animals.Date: 1904- Books
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Minutes of evidence taken before the Committee appointed by the Admiralty to consider the humane slaughtering of animals.
Great Britain. Committee on Humane Slaughtering of Animals.Date: 1904- Books
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The laws, ordinances, and institutions of the Admiralty of Great Britain, civil and military. ... In two volumes. ...
Great Britain. Royal Navy.Date: 1767- Books
Report of the committee appointed by the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty, to enquire into the causes of the outbreak of scurvy in the recent Arctic expedition; the adequacy of the provision made by the Admiralty in the way of food, medicine, and medical comforts; and the propriety of the orders given by the commander of the expedition for provisioning the sledge parties.
Great Britain. Admiralty. Committee on Scurvy.Date: [1877?]- Books
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The laws, ordinances, and institutions of the Admiralty of Great Britain, civil and military. ... Interspers'd with dissertations, notes and comments, ... In two volumes. ...
Great Britain. Royal Navy.Date: 1746- Books
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Report of the Commitee appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to enquire into the causes of the outbreak of scurvy in the recent Arctic Expedition ; the adequacy of the provision made by the Admiralty in the way of food, medicine, and medical comforts ; and the propriety of the orders given by the commander o[f] the Expedition for provisioning the sledge parties.
Great Britain. Admiralty. Committee on Scurvy.Date: [1877?]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. St. Eustatius and its Dependencies. Benjamin Mee of London, Merchant, Claimant and - - Appellant. Admiral Lord Rodney and Major General John Vaughan, and James Heseltine Esq. his Majesty's Procurator General, - - Respondents. On an appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of Great Britain. The Appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1787]- Books
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An essay upon the propitious and glorious reign of our gracious sovereign Anne, Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith. To which are subjoined the characters of several eminent ministers of state, and Renowned Generals and Officers of the Army; with a brief Account of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, &c.
Cockburn, William (Historian)Date: 1710- Books
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An essay upon the propitious and glorious reign of our gracious sovereign Anne, Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith. To which are subjoined the characters of several eminent ministers of state, and renowned generals and officers of the army; with a brief account of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, &c.
Cockburn, William (Historian)Date: 1710- Books
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Reasons for giving encouragement to the sea-faring people of Great-Britain, in times of peace or war, for the more effectually destroying enemies or pirates at all times. And For Distressing the Commerce of the Subjects of Spain at this Time. With Some of the many remarkable actions between the English and Spaniards at Sea.
Date: [1739]- Books
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Plans for increasing the naval force of Great Britain by rendering the service a more desirable object to officers and seamen, in which the following classes are particularly considered: masters and commanders, masters', mates, midshipmen, and able seamen. Also some hints offered towards their better establishment. Addressed to the Right Honourable William Pitt. By Richard Clarke, M.D. surgeon in the Royal Navy.
Clarke, Richard, M.D.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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Captain Opie's appeal against the illegal proceedings of Vice-Admiral Mathews, to the late Lords Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great-Britain, &c. &c. To which is annexed, The letters that passed between Captain Opie and Mr. Corbett, Secretary of the Admiralty; With an introduction, shewing the necessity of a regulation in sea courts-martial.
Opie, John, -1743.Date: 1745- Books
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Considerations upon the state of Dover-Harbour, with its relative consequence to the navy of Great Britain. Dedicated to The several Departments of the Admiralty, Ordnance, Cinque Ports, Commissioners of Dover-Harbour, and Inhabitants in general of the Town and Port of Dover. By Sir Thomas Hyde Page, Knt. F. R. S. Of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers. To which is prefixed, a letter, addressed to the Military Association for the defence of the town and harbour of Dover.
Page, Thomas Hyde, Sir, 1746-1821.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A system of camp-discipline, military honours, garrison-duty, and other regulations for the land forces. Collected by a gentleman of the army. In which are included, Kane's Discipline for a Battalion in Action. With a Map of the Seat of War, Lines and Plans of Battles, and above Sixty Military Schemes, finely engraved from the Originals of the most eminent Generals, &c. To which is added, General Kane's campaigns of King William and the Duke of Marlborough, Improved from the late Earl of Craufurd's and Colonel Dunbar's Copies, taken from Gen. Kane's own Writing. With His Remarks on the several Stratagems by which every Battle was won or lost, from 1689 to 1712. The second edition. Continued from the Restoration where our Standing Army commences, in a Series of Historical and Chronological Facts of the Military and Naval Transactions of Great Britain; being a concise History (to supply the Scenes of Action in which the General was not engaged) to 1757. By an impartial hand.
Impartial hand.Date: 1757- Books
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The proceedings on His Majesty's commission of oyer and terminer, and goal delivery for the High Court of Admiralty of England, held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, on Friday the 9th of March, 1759, Before The Honourable George Hay, LL.D. One of the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great-Britain: The Honourable Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Kt. One of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench: The Honourable William Noel, One of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas: And Others His Majesty's Commissioners.
Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty.Date: [1759]- Books
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A system of camp-discipline, military honours garrison-duty, adjutants-duty, and other regulations for the land forces. Collected by a gentleman of the army. In which are included Kane's Discipline for a battalion in action. With a Map of the Seat of War, Lines and Plans of Battles, and above Sixty Military Schemes, finely engraved from the Originals of the most eminent Generals, &c. To which is added General Kane's Campaigns of King William and the Duke of Marlborough, Improved from the late Earl of Crauford's and Colonel Dunbar's Copies, taken from Gen. Kane's own Writing. With His Remarks on the several Stratagems by which every Battle was won or lost, from 1689 to 1712. The second edition. Continued from the Restoration, where our Standing Army commences, in a Series of Historical and Cronological Facts of the Military and Naval Transactions of Great Britain; being a concise History (to supply the Scenes of Action in which the General was not engaged) to 1760. By an impartial hand.
Impartial hand.Date: [1760]- Books
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A description of Holland: or, the present state of the United Provinces. Wherein is contained, a particular account of the Hague, and all the Principal Cities and Towns of the Republick, with their Buildings, Curiosities, &c. Of the Manner and Customs of the Dutch; their Constition, Legislature, Sovereign Courts, Ministry, Revenue, Forces by Sea and Land, Navy, Admiralty, Bank, East-India Company, Navigation, Commerce, in Asia, Africa, and America; and with Great-Britain, France, Spain, and the other States of Europe. Their Universities, Arts, Sciences, Men of Letters, &c. To which are added, directions for making the tour of the provinces.
Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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A letter to the electors of Great Britain. By James Sutherland, Esq. Late Judge of the admiralty at minorca.
Sutherland, James, -1791.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
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A fasciculus, including the re-publication of Observations on the ligature of arteries, secondary hemorrhage, and amputation at the hip-joint, A letter to the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (1835), on the assimilation of the Medical Departments of the Army and Navy in respect to rank and pay, besides rendering the naval hospitals of Great Britain, in future, schools for the acquisition of perfect skill, dexterity, and fortitude in the performance of all surgical operations, with the Order in Council of 1805, and A description of the medico-chirurgical ambulance, the invention of Dr. Veitch, for the day of battle / by James Veitch ; with an able and interesting letter from Sir George Magrath.
Veitch, James, 1770?-1856.Date: 1851- Books
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A complete history of the most remarkable transactions at sea, from the earliest accounts of time to the conclusion of the last war with France. Wherein Is given an Account of the most considerable Naval-Expeditions, Sea-Fights, Stratagems, Discoveries, and Other Maritime Occurrences that have happen'd among all Nations which have flourished at Sea: And in a more particular manner of Great Britain, from the time of the Revolution, in the Year 1688, to the aforesaid Period. Adorn'd with Sea-Charts adapted to the History. With an exact Index of the Names of all the Places where any considerable Battel has been fought, in any Part of the World. In five books. By Josiah Burchett, Esq; Secretary of the Admiralty.
Burchett, Josiah, 1666?-1746.Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Books
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A complete history of the most remarkable transactions at sea, from the earliest accounts of time to the conclusion of the last war with France. Wherein Is given an Account of the most considerable Naval-Expeditions, Sea-Fights, Stratagems, Discoveries, and Other Maritime Occurrences that have happen'd among all Nations which have flourished at Sea: And in a more particular manner of Great Britain, from the time of the Revolution, in the Year 1688, to the aforesaid Period. Adorn'd with Sea-Charts adapted to the History. With an exact Index of the Names of all the Places where any considerable Battel has been fought, in any Part of the World. In five books. By Josiah Burchett, Esq; Secretary of the Admiralty.
Burchett, Josiah, 1666?-1746.Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Books
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An address to the Right Honorable the First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, upon the visible decreasing spirit, splendor, and discipline of the Navy. With A Proposition for reducing the Guardships to Eight Sail of the Line, and employing Twelve additional Frigates, upon the Home Service, to prevent Smuggling, &c. &c. And A Recommendation to confirm the Navy Lieutenants appointed in the East Indies, and other Foreign Stations, at the Lve of the late War, and who were disbanded upon their Arrival in England, &c. Also, A Dissertation upon the visible alarming Decrease and Consumption of Naval Timber in Great Britain, with correct Estimates of the enormous Consumption in Timber for building the Navy, and particularly East Indiamen, &c. &c. By an officer.
Officer.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The sailor's companion, and merchantman's convoy. Shewing the military power of the Lord High-Admiral, and the duty and conduct of all superior and inferior officers of the Royal Navy of Great Britain. Also the state of the Navy in the year 973, the reign of King Edgar, and in 1171, King Henry the second's time, who fitted out a fleet of 400 sail to reduce Ireland, with the success of that expedition: also an account of the fleets that were fitted out by the succeeding kings; and a list of the navy as it stood on the first day of July, 1740, and 1756. Likewise a dissertation on the honour of the flag; and on the British right to the sovereignty of the seas: with seasonable remarks in relation to the fishery on the coasts, being monopoliz'd by foreigners: together with several useful and curious particulars mention'd in the table annex'd. By J. Cowley. To this second edition is added, a list of the Admiralty and of the Royal Navy 1756.
Cowley, J. (John).Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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Bibliotheca Pearsoniana. A catalogue of the library of Thomas Pearson, Esq. (deceased) containing A very Extensive Collection of the best and rarest books in Every Branch of English Literature. Including Most of the Writers on the History, Antiquities, Topography and Heraldry of Great Britain and Ireland; Foreign History, Voyages and Travels, Natural History, Books of Prints and some Missals; also the most compleat Assemblage of English Poetry, Old Romances and Dramatic Writers, that have been ever brought to Public Sale. Which will be sold by auction by T. and J. Egerton, Booksellers, At their room, in Scotland Yard, Opposite the Admiralty, on Monday, the 14th of April, 1788, And the Twenty-Two following Days, (sundays excepted). To be viewed on Wednesday, April 9th, and to the Sale, which will begin each Day punctually at Twelve O'clock.
Thomas and John Egerton.Date: 1788]