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The Levant voyage of the Blackham Galley (1696-1698) : the sea journal of John Looker ship's surgeon "This volume publishes for the first time, the journal kept by John Looker (?1670-1715) recording his service as ship's surgeon on the Blackham Galley, a London-built merchantman on its second trading voyage to the Levant, between December 1696 and March 1698. Preserved in the Caird Library of the National Maritime Museum, Looker's 'Journall' describes his experiences on the voyage from the point at which he joined the ship at Gravesend, to March 1698, when the journal breaks off abruptly in mid-sentence when the ship was off the Kentish 'Narrows'. John Looker was a Londoner, brought up in one of the parishes to the east of the City which furnished large numbers of mariners to the English sea-borne trades. He served an apprenticeship to a London barber-surgeon, and became a Freeman of the Company of Barber-Surgeons. His fifteen months of service on board the Blackham Galley appears to have been his only employment at sea, but his ready knowledge of maritime ways and language, which are apparent from the first pages of his 'Journall', make it more than likely that he came from a seafaring family. Subsequent to his voyage, he married, raised a family, practised in London as a surgeon, and acquired land in East Anglia. He died at Bath in 1715. Looker's 'Journall' divides naturally into three parts. The Blackham Galley's outward and homeward voyages were largely without incident. The time spent by the Blackham Galley in Turkish waters, covers its voyage from Smyrna to Constantinople, where the ship stayed for a month, and then returned to Smyrna. Captain Newnam's ill-advised and disastrous attempt at privateering in Ottoman waters on the return journey to Smyrna, led to the detention of his vessel at Smyrna under a double interdict from the English ambassador at the Porte and from the Ottoman authorities. Looker's account of the Blackham Galley's enforced stay in Smyrna furnishes a vigorous and detailed account of social life in the international merchant community, as well as portside life seen 'from below', with its taverns and prostitutes, and the activities and frequent 'debauches' of an increasingly bored and fractious crew. Looker's record also provides interesting detail of his professional approach to treatment of the illnesses, accidents and occasional deaths of members of the company of his own and other ships anchored off Smyrna"--Provided by publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4/5
. / B, A. 1696. B, A 1696 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.353(42)"16"
Nore, who upon full evidence was found guilty at the Sessions House in the Old-Baily, on 6th November 1696 Vaughan, Thomas 1697 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:340.96Vaughan
By the Lords Justices, a proclamation ... to seize and apprehend ... Henry Every ... Great Britain. Proclamations : 1696, William III 1696 • RAREPAM-OS • 1 copy available. 094:341.362.1(094.8)
By the Lords Justices, a proclamation ... Whereas it hath been represented to us by the Levant Company ... Great Britain. Proclamations : 1696, Thomas Cantuar, Sommers, J, Pembroke, Devonshire, Shrewsbury, Dorset, Godolphin 1696 • RAREPAM-OS • 1 copy available. 094:342.511
By the Lords Justices, a proclamation ... Whereas by an Act ... intituled, An Act for the encrease and encouragement of seamen ... Great Britain. Proclamations : 1696, Thomas Cantuar, Sommers, J, Pembroke, Shrewsbury 1696 • RAREPAM-OS • 1 copy available. 094:342.511
Alte Karten und Globen in der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbuttel) 1972 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 017.1(435.4):912.44
Hogarth's peregrination / edited with an introduction by Charles Mitchell. Forrest, Ebenezer, 1952. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7HOGARTH:910.4(422.3)
A Letter to a friend concerning the East India trade 1696 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:382(42:54)"16"
Southern and eastern Polynesia Barratt, Glynn 1988 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(47)
An essay on the East-India-trade Davenant, Charles 1696 • • 1 copy available. 382(42:5-012)"16"
Navigation epitomized Seller, John 1696 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527(083.5)
Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum Graevius, Joannus Georgius May 1696-1698 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:937
Proposals for setling the East India trade 1696 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:382(42:54)"16"
A Treatise concerning the East India trade... Papillon, Thomas 1696 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:382(42:54)"16"
The overseas trade of British America : a narrative history /Thomas M. Truxes. "In a single, readily digestible, coherent narrative, historian Thomas M. Truxes presents the 300-year history of the overseas trade of British America. Born from seeds planted in Tudor England in the sixteenth century, Atlantic trade allowed the initial survival, economic expansion, and later prosperity of British America, and brought vastly different geographical regions, each with a distinctive identity and economic structure, into a single fabric. Truxes shows how colonial American prosperity was only possible because of the labor of enslaved Africans, how the colonial economy became dependent on free and open markets, and how the young United States owed its survival in the struggle of the American Revolution to Atlantic trade."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 970.980
An Act for the increase and encouragement of seamen Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1696 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:342.537
Some reflections on a pamphlet intituled England and East India inconsistent in their manufactures Gardner 1696 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:382(42:54)"16"
Isolario ... Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria 1696 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(22)"16"
An account of the nature, causes, symptoms and cure of the distempers that are incident to seafaring people ... Cockburn, W 1696 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:613.68
A new voyage to the East Indies in the years 1690 and 1691 ... Duquesne, Abraham 1696 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(54)"1690/1691"
An account of what English men of war have been taken ... during the present war ... 1696 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.12.014"16"
Some seasonable and modest thoughts, partly occasioned by and partly concerning the Scots East India Company, humbly offered to R H Esq; a member of the present Parliament K, C 1696 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:382(42:54)"16"
Mechanick-powers : or the mistery of nature and art unvail'd ... Mandey, Venterus 1696 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:531/532