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English art
1553
-1625
1962 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
7.034(42)5
Britain's discovery of Russia
1553
-1815
1958 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
947.043/.07
Printed maps of London circa
1553
-1850
1964 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
912.43(421):016
Muscovy: Russia through foreign eyes,
1553
-1900, by Francesca Wilson.
1970. • BOOK • 2 copies available.
910.4(47)"15/18"
English seamen and traders in Guinea,
1553
-1565 : the new evidence of their wills /P.E.H.
1992. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(665.2)
Edward VI : the lost king of England /Chris Skidmore.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92Edward VI
All hands aloft!
1969 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
629.123.133
Barche e navi antiche veneziane : numero unico ricordo del varo della corazzata Sicilia
1891 • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available.
623.82(453.1)
The last voyage of Thomas Cavendish 1591-1592
1975 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
910.4(263/264)"1591"
Gemmae Phrysii ... de principiis astronomiae et cosmographiae deque usu globi ab eodem editi ...
1553 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:52
Military and maritime discipline in three books
1672 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
094:623.1/.5
Stoeffler's Elucidatio : the construction and use of the astrolabe = Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii /translated and edited by Alessandro Gunella and John Lamprey.
2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
520.256"15"
A history of the administration of the Royal Navy and of merchant shipping in relation to the Navy : from MDIX to MDCLX with an introduction treating of the preceding period /by M. Oppenheim
1896 • BOOK • 5 copies available.
355.353(42)"15/16"
Barbary pirate : the life and crimes of John Ward : the most infamous privateer of his time /Greg Bak.
2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92WARD
Merchant adventurers : the voyage of discovery that transformed Tudor England /by James Evans.
2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(987)"1553"
Colonization, piracy, and trade in early modern Europe : the roles of powerful women and queens /Estelle Paranque, Nate Probasco, Claire Jowitt, editors.
2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
382-055.2
Gentes de mar en la ciudad atlâantica medieval = [Seafarers in the medieval Atlantic city] / eds., Jesâus Solâorzano, Michel Bochaca, Amâelia Aguiar Andrade.
2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
627.2(261)"12/15"
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