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Der geofnete See-hafen : worinnen nicht allein der meisten Nationen und Regenten, ingleichen furnehmer See- und Handels-Stadte in allen Theilen der Welt gewohnliche Schiff-Flaggen und andere See-Zeichen, sondern auch alle ausserliche und innerliche Theile eines vollkommenen Schiffes, nebst vielen Merckwurdigkeiten, so wohl in einer deutlichen Beschreibung als zierlichen Kupffer-Figuren anmuthig zu erblicken 1702 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:929.9
An essay on the Navy : or England's advantage and safety, prov'd dependent on a formidable and well-disciplined navy and the encrease and encouragement of seamen Dennis, John 1702 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:355.353(42)"17"
Discovery & seapower 1450-1700 National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) 1986. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
As it was : highlights of hydrographic history from the Old Hydrographer's Column, Hydro International, volumes 1-6 /by Steve Ritchie and fellow writers. A collection of 48 hydrographic highlights listed chronologically by Steve Ritchie, who contributed a regular column for Hydro International magazine. Starting with the 'periploi' or early sailing directions, it includes Carte Pisane (the earliest sea chart); the great atlas of 23 charts, Spieghel der Zeevaerdt, published by Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer in 1584; Edmond Halley's First Map of the Tides 1702; The Challenger reports from The British Challenger Expedition of 1872-76; The Tavistock Theodolite; The Sommerville Sounding Machine; The Tellurometer 1956 and Underwater Trilateration - North Sea in the early 1960s. 2003. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 528.47
Medailles sur les principaux evenements du regne entier de Louis le Grand, avec des explications historiques. Acadâemie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France) 1723. • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 355.48"1643/1714"(44)
Schoolies : selected service stories of the Royal Navy Instructor Officers' Association (RNIOA) /John Nixon and Michael S. Rose; edited by Michael J. Channon OBE. Nixon, John. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
Proposal for a publick journal, to find out, the main reason, of many great losses by sea-damage extraordinary, to merchant's dry goods in voyages, and of the total loss, of merchants goods, and the lives of many marriners, and passengers, by the foundring of ships, and vessels, in ordinary storms, and in common seas and weather : and also to explain, the case of some ships and vessels, and how they are taken by the enemy in time of war. 1702. • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:629.12.074
Greenwich and its lost hospitals : havens of maritime welfare /Gordon C Cook "The Royal Hospital (RH) was built near the site of the Palace of Placentia and erected by King William III (1650?1702) as a memorial for his consort, Queen Mary II (1662-94) who died of smallpox. It was designed by Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) and functioned until 1870 as a hospital for retired mariners of the Royal Navy. The Dreadnought Hospital was the 'flagship' of the Seamen's Hospital Society (SHS) between 1870 and its closure in 1986. The SHS was a charitable foundation launched in 1821 to care for members of Britain's Mercantile Marine and later others also. Having been accommodated on three successive hospital ships, it moved to dry land in Greenwich in 1870. Between 1929 and the outbreak of war in 1939, the SHS published a Quarterly Magazine from which extracts highlighting Greenwich and these two major hospitals are brought together in this book."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.292GREENWICH
Britain and colonial maritime war in the early eighteenth century : silver, seapower and the Atlantic /Shinsuke Satsuma. "In early modern Britain, there was an argument that war at sea, especially war in Spanish America, was an ideal means of warfare, offering the prospect of rich gains at relatively little cost whilst inflicting considerable damage on enemy financial resources. This book examines that argument, tracing its origin to the glorious memory of Elizabethan maritime war, discussing its supposed economic advantages, and investigating its influence on British politics and naval policy during the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-13) and after. The book reveals that the alleged economic advantages of war at sea were crucial in attracting the support of politicians of different political stances. It shows how supporters of war at sea, both in the government as well as in the opposition, tried to implement pro-maritime war policy by naval operations, colonial expeditions and by legislation, and how their attempts were often frustrated by diplomatic considerations, the incapacity of naval administration, and by conflicting interests between different groups connected to the West Indian colonies and Spanish American trade. It demonstrates how, after the War of the Spanish Succession, arguments for active colonial maritime war continued to be central to political conflict, notably in the opposition propaganda campaigns against the Walpole ministry, culminating in the War of Jenkins's Ear against Spain in 1739. The book also includes material on the South Sea Company, showing how the foundation of this company, later the subject of the notorious 'Bubble', was a logical part of British strategy."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"17"(42)
The Times history of the world in maps : the rise and fall of empires, countries and cities. From Babylonian tablets to Google Maps the world has rapidly evolved and cartography has kept pace with these changes. In this book, over 60 maps give a visual representation of the history of the world. 2014. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 912.43(100)".../20"
Tabulae astronomicae Ludovici Magni jussu et munificentia exaratae et in lucem editae : in quibus solis, lunae reliquorumque planetarum motus ex ipsis observationibus, nullãa adhibitãa hypothesi, traduntur, habenturque praecipuarum fixarum in nostro horizonte conspicuarum positiones, ineundi calculi methodus, cum geometricãa ratione computandarum eclipsium solãa triangulorum rectilineorum analysi, breviter exponitur : adjecta sunt descriptio, constructio & usus instrumentorum astronomiae novae practicae inservientium, variaque problemata astronomis geographisque perutilia : ad meridianum Observatorii Regii Parisiensis in quo habitae sunt observationes/ab ipso autore Philippo de La Hire, regio matheoseos professore, & Regio Scientiarum Academiae socio. La Hire, Philippe de, 1727 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52(083.5):094
Commercial agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa / edited by Robin Law, Suzanne Schwarz and Silke Strickrodt. "Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to the early stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century. From the outset, the export of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential alternative to the slave trade: although the predominant trend was to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas to cultivate crops, there was recurrent interest in the possibility of establishing plantations in Africa to produce such crops, or to purchase them from independent African producers. This idea gained greater currency in the context of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade from the late eighteenth century onwards, when the promotion of commercial agriculture in Africa was seen as a means of suppressing the slave trade. At the same time, the slave trade itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply provisions for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists hoped that production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often employed enslaved labour, so that slavery in Africa persisted into the colonial period."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 338.43:326.1(66)
In sparkling company : reflections on glass in the 18th-century British world /Christopher L. Maxwell, with contributions by Marvin Bolt, Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, Jennifer Y. Chuong, Melanie Doderer-Winkler, Anna Moran, Marcia Pointon, and Kerry Sinanan. "Britain in the 1700s was complex, dynamic, and full of growth, whether industrial, geographical, intellectual or societal. The nation began the century under the leadership of a Dutch king (William III, r. 1689-1702), followed by a dynasty of Germans (the Hanoverians, r.1714-1837). Its aristocracy was educated on European Grand Tours, and its commercial, political and territorial ambitions stretched from North America to India, and from Africa to China. It was a world that fostered exploration, expansion and exploitation. The British glass industry replaced that of Venice as the global leader during this period but, beyond its presence in dining and drinking rituals, little discussion has hitherto been made of the significance of glass in the lives of the country's elite during the 1700s. In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-Century British World accompanies a major exhibition at The Corning Museum of Glass in 2021. From portraiture to costume, and science to slavery, the essays contained in this publication offer unique perspectives from noted scholars on the role of glass in defining and expressing the cultural values of Britain during the 1700s."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 748