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Historic maritime maps used for historic exploration 1290-1699 Wigal, Donald 2000 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 910.4(26)

Below the convergence : voyages towards Antarctica 1699-1839 Gurney, Alan 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(99)"1699/1839"

Below the convergence : voyages toward Antartica 1699-1839 "This wonderfully written book tells of the first Herculean expeditions to Antarctica, from astronomer Edmond Halley's 1699 voyage in the Paramore to the sealer John Balleny's 1839 excursion in the Eliza Scott, all in search of land, glory, fur, science, and profit. Life was harsh: crews had poor provisions and inadequate clothing, and scurvy was a constant threat. With unreliable - often homemade - charts, these intrepid explorers sailed in the stormy waters of the Southern Ocean below the Convergence, that sea frontier marking the boundary between the freezing Antarctic waters and the warmer sub-Antarctic seas. These men were the first to discover and exploit a new continent, which was not the verdant southern island they had imagined but an inhospitable expanse of rock and ice, ringed by pack ice and icebergs: Antarctica."--Provided by the publisher. 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(99)"1699/1839"

La squadra ausiliaria della marina Romana : storia dal 1644 al 1699 Guglielmotti, P Alberto 1883 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(456.32)

A voyage to New Holland : the English voyage of discovery to the South Seas in 1699 Dampier, William 1981 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123Roebuck

Erhard Weigel, 1625 bis 1699 : barocker Erzvater der deutschen Frèuhaufklèarung : Beitrèage des Kolloquiums 1999. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92WEIGEL

to gratitude and a good life : a sermon preached in the parish church of Deptford, in Kent, June 5 1699 Stanhope, George 1699 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:252

A voyage to new holland : the English voyage of discovery to the South Seas in 1699 /William Dampier Dampier, William. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(94)"1699/1701"

The rule of the admirals : law, custom, and naval government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832 /Jerry Bannister Bannister, Jerry, c2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.51"1699/1832"

lying in Mr Newman's dock in Lymehouse-Hole, but goes out in two or three days time, 20 of November 1699 Hale, Mr 1699 • RAREPAM-OS • 1 copy available. 669.4:094:629.12.011.88

Ice in the rigging : ships of the Antarctic, 1699-1937 /E.A. "Throughout much of the time Antarctica has been known to humanity, ships, especially sailing ships, were the only way of reaching the frozen continent. Ice in the Rigging, published by the Maritime Museum of Tasmania in August 2015, tells gripping stories of these ships and those who sailed them on the roughest maritime assignment of all. It is easy to forget the extreme hazards faced by the early venturers in this icy wilderness since the romantic age of sail has been overtaken by modern ice-class vessels. Ice in the Rigging brings to life those early days in one well-researched comprehensive volume."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 998.9

Practis'd upon the Trumbal-gally in Mr Wells's dock, August 31 1699. Hale, Mr 1699 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 669.4:094:629.12.011.88

Alte Uhren und ihre Meister Bassermann-Jordan, Ernst von, 1926 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 681.113.1

The maritime life of Capt. Thomas Langley (?-1696) / by J.W.M. Stone. Stone, J. W. M. 2002. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92LANGLEY

Vasa I : the archaeology of a Swedish warship of 1628 /by Carl Olof Cederlund ; edited by Fred Hocker ; with contributions by Georg Hafstrèom, Fred Hocker, and Per Wendel. Cederlund, Carl Olof, 2006. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82WASA

Mastering the worst of trades : England's early Africa companies and their traders, 1618-1672 /by Julie M. Svalastog. "This book directs its main focus to the Guinea Company and its members, aiming to understand the genealogy of several major changes taking place in the English Atlantic and in the Anglo-Africa trade in the 17th century and beyond. Little focus has been directed at the companies that preceded the Royal African Company, launched in 1672, and through presenting the Guinea Company - the earliest of England's chartered Africa companies, and its relationship with the influential men who became its members, the book questions the inevitability of the Atlantic reality of the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through its members, the Guinea Company emerged as a purpose-built structure with the ability to weather a volatile trade undergoing fundamental change"-- 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/62094209032

Merchants : the community that shaped England's trade and empire, 1550-1650 /Edmond Smith. "In the century following Elizabeth I's rise to the throne, English trade blossomed as thousands of merchants launched ventures across the globe. Through the efforts of these 'mere merchants', England developed from a peripheral power on the fringes of Europe to a country at the center of a global commercial web, with interests stretching from Virginia to Ahmadabad and Arkhangelsk to Benin. Edmond Smith traces the lives of English merchants from their earliest steps into business to the heights of their successes. Smith unpicks their behavior, relationships, and experiences, from exporting wool to Russia, importing exotic luxuries from India, and building plantations in America. He reveals that the origins of 'global' Britain are found in the stories of these men whose livelihoods depended on their skills, entrepreneurship, and ability to work together to compete in cutthroat international markets. As a community, their efforts would come to revolutionize Britain's relationship with the world."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 381.09410903

Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age / edited by Ildikâo Ember ; in collaboration with Nikoletta Koruhely, Jâulia Tâatrai, Axel Vâecsey ; translation, C.H. Kist and J.M. Kilian [and 5 others]. [2014]. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 7REMBRANDT

The specter of the archive : political practice and the information state in early modern Britain /Nicholas Popper. "As original paperwork and copies alike flooded the government, information management became the core of politics. Focusing on two of early modern England's primary political archives, the Tower of London Record Office and the State Paper Office, Popper traces the circulation of their materials through the government and the broader public sphere. In this early media-saturated society, we find the origins of many issues we face today: Who shapes the archive? Can we trust the pictures of the past and the present that it shows us? And, in a more politically urgent vein: Does a huge volume of information (not all of it accurate) risk contributing to polarization and extremism?"-- 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 352.3/87094109032

Advancing empire : English interests and overseas expansion, 1613-1688 /L.H. Roper. "In Advancing Empire, L.H. Roper explores the origins and early development of English overseas expansion. Roper focuses on the networks of aristocrats, merchants, and colonial-imperialists who worked to control the transport and production of exotic commodities, such as tobacco and sugar, as well as the labor required to produce them. He is primarily interested in the relationship between the English state and the people it governed, the role of that state in imperial development, the socio-political character of English colonies and English relations with Asians, Africans, American Indians, and other Europeans overseas. The activities stimulated the expansion and integration of global territorial and commercial interests that became the British Empire in the eighteenth century. In exploring these activities from a wider perspective, Roper offers a novel conclusion that revises popular analyses of the English Empire and of Anglo-America"--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941-44

Dutch navies of the 80 Years' War, 1568-1648 / Bouko de Groot ; illustrated by Peter Bull. "The tiny new state of the United Provinces of the Netherlands won its independence from the mighty Spanish empire by fighting and winning the Eighty Years' War, from 1568 and 1648. In this long conflict, warfare on water played a much bigger role in determining the ultimate victor. On the high seas the fleet carved out a new empire, growing national income to such levels that it could continue the costly war for independence. Yet it was in coastal and inland waters that the most decisive battles were fought. Arguably the most decisive Spanish siege (Leiden, 1574) was broken by a fleet sailing to the rescue across flooded polders, and the battle of Nieuwpoort in 1600, the largest successful invasion fleet before World War II, was one of the most decisive battle in western history. Using detailed full colour artwork, this book shows how the Dutch navies fought worldwide in their war of independence, from Brazil to Indonesia, and from the Low Countries to Angola."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1568/1648"(492)

Early Dutch maritime cartography : the North Holland school of cartography (c.1580-c.1620) /Gèunter Schilder. "This book is an exposition of an important, yet previously unknown chapter in the history of Dutch maritime cartography. While Amsterdam was developing into Europe's most vital commercial hub in the seventeenth century, demanding and controlling the production of maps and sea-charts, a major School of Cartography was already flourishing in the so-called 'Kop van Noord-Holland' region just north of Amsterdam. This School specialised in the production of small-scale charts of larger areas, including the European coastlines and the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Its masters used to call themselves 'caert-schrijvers' or 'map-scribes' when clarifying their profession. The cities of Enkhuizen and Edam were important trading ports and as such provided an ideal environment for developing into centres of cartography, serving sea-borne navigation. Apart from the well-known printed pilot guides by Lucas Jansz Waghenaer, the output of these 'caert-schrijvers' consists mainly of manuscript charts on vellum. Copies, though few they are, nowadays can be found across the globe. Sea-charts provided invaluable on-board navigation assistance to ship captains. However, another surprising contemporaneous purpose for financing these charts become popular. Rich ship owners and merchants would commission new charts to serve as wall-decoration as well as a reference point for their maritime-related conversations. They feature a decorative lay-out filled with magnificent colours. Moreover, many of these charts are embellished with miniature paintings, certainly making them some of the most beautiful exemplars ever produced by Dutch cartography during its Golden Age."--Provided by the publisher [2017] • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 528.9(492)

Encounters on the opposite coast : the Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the seventeenth century /by Markus P.M. Vink. "In Encounters of the Opposite Coast, Markus Vink provides a narrative of the first half century of cross-cultural interaction between the Dutch East India Company (VOC), one of the great northern European chartered companies, and Madurai, one of the 'great southern Nayakas' and successor-states of the Vijayanagara empire, in southeast India (c. 1645-1690). A shared interest in trade and at times converging political objectives formed the unstable foundations for a complex relationship fraught with tensions, a mixture of conflict and coexistence typical of the 'age of contained conflict.' Drawing extensively on archival materials, Markus Vink covers a topic neglected by both Company historians and their Indian counterparts and sheds important light on a 'black hole in South Indian history'"--Provided by the publisher. 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.71DUTCH EAST INDIA

Seventeenth century practical mathematics : navigation by Greenvill Collins /Paul Hughes. "This exciting Greenvill Collins biography is about seventeenth century navigation, focusing for the first time on mathematics practised at sea. This monograph argues the Restoration kings', Charles II and James II, promotion of cartography for both strategy and trade. It is aimed at the academic, cartographic and larger market of marine enthusiasts. Through shipwreck and Arctic marooning, and Dutch and Spanish charts, Collins evolved a Prime Meridian running through Charles's capital. After John Ogilby's successful Britannia, Charles set Collins surveying his kingdom's coasts, and James set John Adair surveying in Scotland. They triangulated at sea. Subsequently, Collins persuaded James to sustain his dead brother's ambition. This, the British coast's first survey took six years. After James's flight, and William III's invasion, Collins lead the royal yacht squadron for six years more, garnering funds to publish Great Britain's Coasting Pilot. The Admiralty and civic institutions subsidised what became his own pilot. Collins aided Royal Society members in their investigations, and his new guide remained vital to navigators through the century following. Charles's cartographic promotion bloomed the most spectacularly in the atlases of Ogilby, Collins and John Flamsteed for roads, harbours, and stars"--Provided by publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 526.9/90941

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