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Atlas de la navigation et du commerce Renard, Louis 1715 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(26)"17"
The fair Quaker of Deal : or the humours of the navy Shadwell, Charles 1715 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:820-2
Sur les pendules a secondes La Hire, M. de 1715 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:681.11
Ordonnance de la marine du mois d'Aout 1681 France. Proclamations : 1681, Louis XIV 1715 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:347.79(44)"1681"
Introduzione all'arte nautica per uso de piloti e capitani di nave, e per il migliore servizio de commandanti sopra il mare 1715 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527"17"
Nouveau voyage autour du monde ... Dampier, William 1715 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Cowley
Oedipus, King of Thebes ... Sophocles 1715 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:820-2
Sciences horloger Academie Royal des Sciences 1715 - 1763 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:681.11
A synopsis of the doctrine of eclipses Senex, John • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094
Meteorological essays, concerning the origin of springs, generation of rain, and production of wind ... Barlow, E.-(Edward), 1715 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:551.5
Introduzione all arte nautica : per uso de piloti, e capitani di nave, e per il migliore servizio de commandanti sopra il mare Albrizzi, Girolamo 1715 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527
The pirate who stole Scotland : William Dampier and the creation of the United Kingdom /Leon Hopkins. "Economic warfare is not a new phenomenon. In the protectionist climate of the seventeenth century, trade embargoes, exclusions and boycotts were common. England was among the most active nations when it came to using economic clout to get its own way. It did so to force Scotland to accept an Act of Union: to submerge its independence within a United Kingdom governed from London. Instrumental in this attack upon the Scots was William Dampier, the principal subject of this book. He was an extraordinary man. A farmer's son, he became the most travelled man of his generation. He was a pirate, a brute and a devious sociopath. But he was also a scientist and a talented writer who gave his readers accurate descriptions of previously unknown places, peoples, plants and animals. He was a daring explorer and an expert navigator who mapped coastlines and logged wind patterns and ocean currents. He led the first Royal Navy expedition to Australia, over 70 years before Captain Cook's arrival. Dampier's writing made him famous, but not rich. It allowed him to rub shoulders with the leading men of his day; scientists such as Robert Hooke, Edmund Halley and Hans Sloane, businessmen such as Sir John Houblon (first governor of the Bank of England) and William Paterson, politicians such as James Vernon and Charles Montagu (first Earl of Halifax), and Admiralty men such as Admiral Sir George Rooke and Samuel Pepys. And Dampier was in the pay of the English Government; an agent known to Queen Anne, in which capacity he engineered a financial disaster and political drubbing for Scotland." 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.92
[Summary of life & service : Lord George Graham] Admiralty [between 1934 and 1949] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
In the eye of all trade : Bermuda, Bermudians, and the maritime Atlantic world, 1680-1783 /Michael J. Jarvis. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community capitalized on its position "in the eye of all trade." Jarvis takes readers aboard small Bermudian sloops as they shuttled cargoes between ports, raked salt, salvaged shipwrecks, hunted whales, captured prizes, and smuggled contraband in an expansive maritime sphere spanning Great Britain's North American and Caribbean colonies. He shows how humble sailors and seafaring slaves operating small family-owned vessels were significant but underappreciated agents of Atlantic integration. The American Revolution shattered interregional links that Bermudians had helped to forge. Reliant on North America for food and customers, Bermudians faced disaster. A bold act of treason enabled islanders to continue trade with their rebellious neighbors and helped them to survive and even prosper in an Atlantic world at war. Ultimately, however, the creation of the United States ended Bermuda's economic independence and doomed the island's maritime economy. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 972.99"16/17"
The Royal charter of confirmation, granted by His most Excellent Majesty King James II, to the Trinity-House of Deptford-Strond, for the government and encrease of the navigation of England ... Trinity House (London, England) 1715 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:627.71(421.6)
The sailing and fighting instructions or signals as they are observed in the Royal Navy Greenwood, Jonathan 1715? • RARE-BOOK • 5 copies available. 094:627.72(42)"17"
The British Navy in the Baltic / John D. Grainger. "This book presents a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Baltic Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth century. It traces developments from Anglo-Saxon times, through the medieval period when there were frequent disputes between English kings and the Hanseatic League, the seventeenth-century wars with the Dutch, and Britain's involvement in the Northern Wars in the early years of the eighteenth century. It considers in detail the major period of British involvement in the Baltic during the Napoleonic Wars, when the British navy fought the Danes, Napoleon's allies, and was highly effective in ensuring Sweden's neutrality and Russia's change of allegiance. It goes on to discuss British naval actions in the Baltic during the Crimean War and in the First World War and its aftermath. Throughout, the book relates naval actions to patterns of trade, to wider international politics, and to geographical factors such as winter sea ice and the shallow nature of the Baltic Sea."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"800/1950"(42)
Native claims : indigenous law against empire, 1500-1920 /edited by Saliha Belmessous. "This groundbreaking collection of essays shows that, from the moment European expansion commenced through to the twentieth century, indigenous peoples from America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand drafted legal strategies to contest dispossession. The story of indigenous resistance to European colonization is well known. But legal resistance has been wrongly understood to be a relatively recent phenomenon. These essays demonstrate how indigenous peoples throughout the world opposed colonization not only with force, but also with ideas. They made claims to territory using legal arguments drawn from their own understanding of a law that applies between peoples--a kind of law of nations, comparable to that being developed by Europeans. The contributors to this volume argue that in the face of indigenous legal arguments, European justifications of colonization should be understood not as an original and originating legal discourse but, at least in part, as a form of counter-claim. Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920 brings together the work of eminent social and legal historians, literary scholars, and philosophers, including Rolena Adorno, Lauren Benton, Duncan Ivison, and Kristin Mann. Their combined expertise makes this volume uniquely expansive in its coverage of a crucial issue in global and colonial history. The various essays treat sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Latin America, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America (including the British colonies and French Canada), and nineteenth-century Australasia and Africa. There is no other book that examines the issue of European dispossession of native peoples in such a way"--Provided by publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 342.724"1500/1920"-0546
Frames that speak : cartouches on early modern maps /by Chet Van Duzer. "This lavishly illustrated book is the first systematic exploration of cartographic cartouches, the decorated frames that surround the title, or other text or imagery, on historic maps. It addresses the history of their development, the sources cartographers used in creating them, and the political, economic, historical, and philosophical messages their symbols convey. Cartouches are the most visually appealing parts of maps, and also spaces where the cartographer uses decoration to express his or her interests--so they are key to interpreting maps. The book discusses thirty-three cartouches in detail, which range from 1569 to 1821, and were chosen for the richness of their imagery. The book will open your eyes to a new way of looking at maps."--Provided by publisher. [2023] • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 744.3/7