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Period 18th century

Work Type engraving

Subject Terms Navigation -- Early works to 1800.

1. A description of the windward passage, and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to, and from the island of Jamaica : also an account of the trade-winds, and of the variable winds and currents on the coasts thereabouts, at different seasons of the tear : illustrated with a chart of the coast of Florida, and of the islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller islands, shoals, rocks, and other remarkable things in the course of the navigation in the West-Indies : whereby is demonstrated, the precariousness of those voyages to the West-India merchants, and the impossibility of their homeward-bound ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's : the whole very necessary for the information of such as never were in those parts of the world : to which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies ...

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Creator:: Cowley, J. (John)
Physical Description:: 23, [5] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Afbeelding van alle de generale zeinen, die gedaan en geobserveerd werden in 'slands vloot, zoo in het zeilen en ankeren by daag en nagt, als ten tyde van gevegt : met de beteekenis van ieder signaal, en aanwyzing der plaatszen daar dezelve in de origineele Hollandsze en Engelsze zein-boeken te vinden zyn : als meede een register van alle de instructien en waarschouwingen daar toe behoorende : te zamen gesteld, en in 't ligt gebragt, to gemak en dienst van 's lands officieren ter zee / door N. Govertsz, schryver in 's lands-dienst ter zee.

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Creator:: Govertsz, N
Date:: 1746
Physical Description:: [176] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. L'art de batir les vaisseaux, et d'en perfectionner la construction : de les garnir de leurs apparaux, les mettre en funin, les manoeuvrer, &c avec la coupe d'un vaisseau du premier rang, les devis de plusieurs fortes de vaisseaux, les outils & machines des ateliers de construction, les instrumens de mathematique servans à la navigation, leurs descriptions & figures; diverses listes & tables concernant la construction, l'equipment, &c. Outre, Les pavillons de divers etats, le tout tiré des meilleurs auteurs hollandois, comme Witsen, van Eyk, Allard, &c.

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Date:: MDCCXIX [1719]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts