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Born to be hanged : the epic story of the gentlemen pirates who raided the South Seas, rescued a princess, and stole a fortune /Keith Thomson. "The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring, hardened pirates-a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers-gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships. The booty: the bright gleam of Spanish gold and the chance to become legends. So begins one of the greatest piratical adventures of the era - a story not given its full due until now. Inspired by the intrepid forays of pirate turned Jamaican governor Captain Henry Morgan - yes, that Captain Morgan - the company crosses Panama on foot, slashing its way through the Darien Isthmus, one of the thickest jungles on the planet, and liberating a native princess along the way. After reaching the South Sea, the buccaneers, primarily Englishmen, plunder the Spanish Main in a series of historic assaults, often prevailing against staggering odds and superior firepower. A collective shudder racks the western coastline of South America as the English pirates, waging a kind of proxy war against the Spaniards, gleefully undertake a brief reign over Pacific waters, marauding up and down the continent. With novelistic prose and a rip-roaring sense of adventure, Keith Thomson guides us through the pirates' legendary two-year odyssey. We witness the buccaneers evading Indigenous tribes, Spanish conquistadors, and sometimes even their own English countrymen, all with the ever-present threat of the gallows for anyone captured. By fusing contemporaneous accounts with intensive research and previously unknown primary sources, Born to Be Hanged offers a rollicking account of one of the most astonishing pirate expeditions of all time." 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 972.87/02

Recueil des machines approuvees par l'Academie Royale des Sciences L'Academie Royale des Sciences 1699-1734 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11

Observations on a late scandalous paper reflecting on the Admiralty and said to be written by an English sailer ... 1699 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:354.71(42)"1699"

Directions to be observed by the boatswains and carpenters of ships belonging to His Majesty's Royal Navy in keeping their accounts of sea-stores committed to their respective charges Great Britain. Royal Navy 1699 • RAREPAM-OS • 1 copy available. 359.5:094:355.51

Revue de l'Academie Royale horlogerie 1700 - 1789 L'Academie Royale des Sciences 1699 - 1790s • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11

Oceans odyssey 4 : pottery from the Tortugas Shipwreck, Straits of Florida : a merchant vessel from Spain's 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet /edited by Greg Stemm, Sean Kingsley & Ellen Gerth. "The Tortugas shipwreck excavated at a depth of 405 meters in the Straits of Florida contained a major collection of 3,800 intact and fragmentary olive jars, tablewares, cooking vessels and tobacco pipes. Identified as the Portuguese-built and Spanish-operated 117-ton Buen Jesâus y Nuestra Seänora del Rosario, the ship's Seville dominated tablewares are a revealing index of unchanged cultural tastes and continued production at the end of Spain's Golden Age. For cooking the crew relied on Afro-Caribbean colonoware, possibly the first recorded archaeological evidence of maritime slavery in the Americas fleets. Two tin-glazed plates painted with papal coat of arms--the Keys of Heaven and triple crown--may have been used by Spain-bound clergymen from the newly formed Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith"--Provided by publisher. 2014. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 946/.04

Ruin to ruin after misery to misery : being the distressed, and ruined, and perishing state of the loyal and faithful seamen of England ... Hodges, William 1699 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 331.2:094:656.61.071.22

On display : Henrietta Maria and the materials of magnificence at the Stuart court /Erin Griffey. "In the early modern period, rulers demonstrated their power and influence through carefully curated "display"--Their presence in court ceremonies, their palaces and their contents, and their portraits. Henrietta Maria of France (1609-1669), queen consort of King Charles I of England, embraced these opportunities for display with particular flair. This richly illustrated book follows Henrietta Maria through and beyond the Bourbon and Stuart courts to chart her patronage and engagement with the visual arts, building works, and the luxury trade. It develops a powerful picture not just of the images, fashions, interiors, and buildings shaped by the queen's directorial influence but also of the political and religious factors that governed her choices and policies of court display. Her cultural patronage in particular emphasized her family honor, dynastic clout, Catholic piety, feminine virtue, and discerning taste. Erin Griffey analyzes the full spectacle of the queen's represented image, not only through the well-known portraits by Sir Anthony van Dyck but also through her rich bed ensembles, tapestries, jewelry, clothing, and devotional goods--the objects that embodied and conveyed her royal power"-- [2015] • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 709.42/09032

Remarks on the observations offer'd by a true English-man, who is not a sailor, tho' of long service in the navy Taylor, Randall 1699 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:354.71(42)"1689"

Observations on a late scandalous paper reflecting on the Admiralty, etc, said to be written by an English sailer. Humbly offer'd by one who is not a sailer, tho' of long service in the Navy 1699 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:355.02(42)"1699"

Arithmetick; or, the ground of arts: teaching that science, both in whole numbers and fractions Hatton, Edward 1699 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094

Two compendious discourses : the one concerning the power of God: the other about the certainty and evidence of a future state Smith, Thomas 1699 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:252

A short vindication of marine regiments in answer to a pamphlet entitled A letter to a Member of Parliament, concerning the four marine regiments 1699 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.496"16"(42)

The complete book of emigrants : a complete listing ... of those who took ship to the Americas for political, religious and economic reasons; of those who were deported ... 1607-1776 Coldham, Peter Wilson 1987-1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.2(73)

Jonathan Dickinson's journal : or God's protecting providence. Being the narrative of a journey from Port Royal in Jamaica to Philadelphia between August 23, 1696 and April 1, 1697 Dickinson, Jonathan 1981 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3(759)"1696"

Dialling : plain, concave, convex, projective, reflective, refractive : shewing how to make all such dials, and to adorn them with all useful furniture, relating to the course of the sun ... Leybourn, William 1682 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:520.25

Histoire des avanturiers flibustiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes ... Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier 1699 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:341.362.1(729)"16"

The Last Armada : Queen Elizabeth, Juan del âAguila, and Hugh O'Neill: The Story of the 100-Day Spanish Invasion /Des Ekin. "As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation. General Juan del âAguila has been sprung from a prison cell to command the last great Spanish armada. His mission: to seize a bridgehead in Queen Elizabeth's England and hold it. Facing him is Charles Blount, a brilliant English strategist whose career is also under a cloud. His affair with a married woman edged him into a treasonous conspiracy--and brought him to within a hair's breadth of the gallows. Meanwhile, Irish insurgent Hugh O'Neill knows that this is his final chance to drive the English out of Ireland. For each man, this is the last throw of the dice. Tomorrow they will be either heroes or failures. These colorful commanders come alive in this true story of courage and endurance, of bitterness and betrayal, and of drama and intrigue at the highest levels in the courts of England and Spain."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1601"(41:46)

The Levant voyage of the Blackham Galley (1696-1698) : the sea journal of John Looker ship's surgeon /edited by Colin Heywood and Edmond Smith. "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

A letter to a Member of Parliament concerning the four regiments commonly called mariners. 1699. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.496"16"(42):094

A Tutor to astronomy and geography : or an easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, coelestial and terrestrial : in six books Moxon, Joseph 1699 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:52

Flying heads and snapping limbs : imagining violence at sea in early seventeenth-century Dutch maritime art /Michel van Duijnen. "Exploding ships, flying heads, snapping limbs: the Rijksmuseum collection holds some of the most explicit and violent paintings of early modern maritime warfare. Dating to the early seventeenth century, these large works were often commissioned by Dutch civic or military institutions to celebrate the victories of the Dutch Republic over the Spanish Crown at sea. The pioneering Dutch maritime painters of the time who worked on these prestigious commissions showcased a lively interest in the extreme violence that characterized naval warfare. Famed painters such as Hendrick Vroom, Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen and Adam Willaerts all painted gory scenes of snapping arms, flying heads and dismembered torsos. The explicit details found in these paintings provide a unique window on the rise of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Commissioned by the rich and powerful, these works of art raise important questions about the glorification of violence, the self-image of the Dutch Republic as a military power, and the unique place of naval warfare in Dutch visual culture. In Flying heads and snapping limbs, Michel van Duijnen explores this new, different view of these impressive maritime paintings by discussing details that were previously overlooked and by asking questions that have never been asked before, giving them new and often unexpected and unexplored meanings."--Page 4 of cover. [2021] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 759.9492

Military and maritime discipline in three books Venn, Thomas 1672 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:623.1/.5

Anna of Denmark : the material and visual culture of the Stuart courts, 1589-1619 /Jemma Field. "This book analyses Anna of Denmark's material and visual patronage at the Stuart courts, examining her engagement with a wide array of expressive media including architecture, garden design, painting, music, dress, and jewellery. Encompassing Anna's time in Denmark, England, and Scotland, it establishes patterns of interest and influence in her agency, while furthering our knowledge of Baltic-British transfer in the early modern period. Substantial archival work has facilitated a formative re-conceptualisation of James and Anna's relationship, extended our knowledge of the constituents of consortship in the period, and has uncovered evidence to challenge the view that Anna followed the cultural accomplishments of her son, Prince Henry. This book reclaims Anna of Denmark as the influential and culturally active royal woman that her contemporaries knew. Combining politics, culture, and religion across the courts of Denmark, Scotland, and England, it enriches our understanding of royal women's roles in early modern patriarchal societies and their impact on the development of cultural modes and fashions. This book will be of interest to upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses on early modern Europe in the disciplines of Art and Architectural History, English Literature, Theatre Studies, History, and Gender Studies. It will also attract a wide range of academics working on early modern material and visual culture, and female patronage, while members of the public who enjoy the history of courts and the British royals will also find it distinctively appealing."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941.06/1092

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