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An appeal to the people : containing the genuine and entire letter of Admiral Byng to the Secr of the Ad[miralt]y ... part the first Byng, John, 1756 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1756"(262)
An appeal to the people : containing the genuine and entire letter of Admiral Byng to the secr of the Admiralty Byng, John, 1756 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1756"(262)
An exact copy of a remarkable letter from Admiral Byng to the Right Hon W... P... Esq., dated March 12, 1757, two days before his execution Byng, John, 1758 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Byng
Admiral Byng : his rise and execution /Chris Ware. Admiral John Byng was born into an illustrious naval family in 1704. He qualified as a lieutenant at the age of 19 and was made post captain at 23. By the outbreak of the Seven Years War in 1756 he had become admiral of the blue. At the Battle of Minorca in 1756 it was alleged that he had failed to do his utmost to relieve the siege of the British garrison on Minorca. He was court-martialled and found guilty, although he was acquitted of personal cowardice. Despite pleas for clemency he was executed in 1757 on board the HMS Monarch in Portsmouth harbour. Voltaire referred to the incident in his novel Candide, creating the phrase "... pour encourager les autres". This book reappraises Byng's life and career in an attempt to discover whether he was a victim of injustice and the political situation at the time. There are black and white photographs of portraits of the various participants in Byng's story, extensive notes, a bibliography and a brief index. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
De thermometris mensurae constantis commentatio / auctore Carolo Augusto a Bergen Bergen, Carl August von, [1745] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 536.5:094
Admiral Byng's defence ... read in the court, January 18 1757 on board his Majesty's ship St George ... Byng, John, 1757 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:344.4"1757"
Captain Thomas James's strange and dangerous voyage in his intended discovery of the North-West Passage into the South Sea, in the years 1631 and 1632 James, Thomas 1704? • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(987)"1631/1632"
Mathematical institutions ... Leybourn, Will 1704 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:52
Despatches of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Hardy 1757-1758 and Vice-Admiral Francis Holburne 1757 / ed. by C. H. Little. 1958. • • 2 copies available. 355.49"1757/1758"(714)
John Locke and the rhetoric of modernity / Philip Vogt. "John Locke and the Rhetoric of Modernity corrects "a persistent distortion in our understanding of Locke and thus in our understanding of what it means to be modern." Philip Vogt reassesses specific aspects of Lockean rhetoric; the theory and use of analogy, the characteristic tropes, and the topoi that connected Locke with his original and later audiences. He argues that Locke was not, as is commonly supposed, opposed to figuration in language; that he did not rely on scientific societies to police linguistic innovation in science, but trusted instead the authority of normal usage; that he was not a naive empiricist who viewed the mind as a tabula rasa; and that his commitment to the mechanical philosophical was not unconditional."--BOOK JACKET. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 141.78
Lexicon technicum Harris, John 1704 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 523.9
The progress of maritime discovery : from the earliest period to the close of the eighteenth century, forming an extensive system of hydrography /by James Stanier Clarke Clarke, James Stanier, 1803. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 910.4"...17":094
Description d'une piece horlogerie 1704 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:681.113.91
An historical and geographical description of Formosa ... Psalmanaazaar, George 1926 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 952.91
Journal of the Greenwich Historical Society : volume 3, number 4 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
The Byng papers : selected from the letters and papers of Admiral Sir George Byng, first Viscount Torrington, and of his son, Admiral the Hon John Byng Byng, George 1930-1932 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 92Byng
Harbours, docks, piers and ferries : the Dockyard Port of Rosyth Order 1975 Great Britain. Statutory Instruments 1975 • GOVTPUB • 1 copy available. 623.81(413.3)
Edit du Roy, portant creation de cent officiers de commissaires de la marine, et des galeres France. Proclamations : 1702, Louis XIV 1704 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:342.511(44)"1702"
Merchant shipping : safety : the merchant shipping (minimum standards of safety communications) (amendment) regulations 1999 Great Britain. Statutory Instruments 1999 • GOVTPUB • 1 copy available. 614.8:627.726
The whole book of Psalms : collected into English metre ... / Sternhold, Thomas. 1703. 1703 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:264-13
Ephemerides of the celestial motions for X years : beginning anno 1672 (where the industrious Mr Wings expired) and ending an. 1681 : calculated according to art from new tables, and compared with the most correct observations of the noble Tycho, Kepler, Mr. Wright, and other approved astronomers : accomodated to the meridian of the honourable city of London : with an introduction to the use thereof /by John Gadbury. Gadbury, John, 1672. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 524.3(059.3):094
Defensive war by sea Park, Robert 1704 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:355.461"17"
A New sett of maps both of antient and present geography... together with a geographical treatise particularly adapted to the use and design of these maps Wells, Edward 1704 • ATLAS-FOL • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(3)"17"
An universal dictionary of the marine or : a copious explanation of the technical terms and phrases ... Falconer, William, 1780 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:629.12(038)