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Geometrical and graphical essays : containing a general description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling, and perspective : with many new practical problems : illustrated by thirty-four copper plates /by the late George Adams, mathematical instrument maker to His Majesty, &c. Adams, George,-Geometrical and graphical essays 1797. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 514:094
Mr. Smith goes to China : three Scots in the making of Britain's global empire /Jessica Hanser. "This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders - George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras - and uses them as lenses through which to explore the inner workings of Britain's imperial expansion and global network of trade, revealing how an unstable credit system and a financial crisis ultimately led to greater British intervention in India and China."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382/.0941/051
A journal : or full account of the late expedition to Canada with an appendix containing commissions, orders, instructions, letters, memorials, courts-martial, councils of war etc Walker, Hovenden, Sir 1720 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Walker
Proporciones de las medidas mas essempciales ... con las explicaciones de la construccion de la varenga maestra ... Gastaneta, Antonio de 1720 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:629.12(46)
Anno sexto Georgii regis: An act for ... building ... county gaols; ... suppression of piracy; ... regulating ... ships of war ... Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1720 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 341.362.1:094:342.537
An introduction to a true method for the discovery of longitude at sea humbly offer'd to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament Plank, Stephen 1720 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:528.282
Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX ... 1720 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094 <EXTI Bubble companies of the year 1720:347.72
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
The voyages, dangerous adventures and imminent escapes of Captain Richard Falconer ... intermix'd with the voyages and adventures of Thomas Randal ... Falconer, Richard 1720 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(729)"17"
A survey of the cities of London and Westminster ... written at first in the year MDXCVIII Stow, John 1720 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:914.21
Lords of the sea : a history of the Barbary corsairs /Alan G. Jamieson. "Escalating piracy in the seas off Somalia has led commentators to designate the region the 'new Barbary'. But the seizures and killings made to date by Somali pirates cannot compare with the three centuries of terror unleashed on Europeans by corsairs in the Mediterranean and beyond. From 1500 to 1800, murderous Muslim pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast seized and enslaved more than a million Christians. Lords of the Sea gives us the full history of these pirates, first examining their dramatic impact as the violent seaborne vanguard of an expanding Ottoman empire in the early 1500s through to their break from Ottoman authority a century later. Alan Jamieson explores how the corsairs of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and other fortified coastal ports rose to the apogee of their powers, extending their activities from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic, raiding as far as the British Isles and Iceland. Rescuing captive Christians touched everyone in a Western state, from ambassadors obliged to negotiate to rural communities directed by Sunday sermons to contribute to the fund required to buy back their enslaved countrymen and women. While corsair activities declined in the 18th century, it was only a series of naval wars prosecuted into the early years of the 19th by various European states as well as a determined USA that finally ended the menace, culminating in the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. A welcome addition to nautical military history, Lords of the Sea is an engrossing tale of piracy, enslavement and the rise of the great powers."--Provided by the publisher 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1"14/18"
Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society. [ed. Ray Riley]. 2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.81(946.82)
Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy ... Adams, George,-Geometrical and graphical essays 1794 • RARE-FOLIO • 6 copies available. 094:52/55
The King of pirates : being an account of the famous enterprises of Captain Avery, the mock King of Madagascar with his rambles & piracies; wherein all the sham accounts formerly publish'd of him, are detected Avery, John 1720 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:341.362.1(691)"17"
An Act for establishing articles and orders for the regulating and better government of His Majesty's navies, ships of war, and forces by sea. 13 Charles II. 1661 Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1734 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 355.51:094:342.537
The newe attractive, shewing the nature, propertie, and manifold vertues of the loadstone; with the declination of the needle, touched therewith, under the plaine of the horizon Norman, Robert 1720 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:528.28
The Walker expedition to Quebec 1711 Walker, Hovenden, Sir 1953 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Walker
The Birmingham gun trade / David Williams. Covers the period from 1720 to 1950, focusing specifically on interchangeable military firearms manufacture and the growth and decline of the Birmingham gun trade. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 683.4"17/19"
A complete history of the most remarkable transactions at sea from the earliest accounts of time to the conclusion of the last war with France ... Burchett, Josiah 1720 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:355.49
Kniga ustav' morskoi : o vsem' chto kasaetsya dobromu upravleniyu v' bytnosti flota na more 1993 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.51(47)
The Humphrey Morice papers from the Bank of England, London Morice, Humphry, 1998. • MICROFILM • 2 copies available. 326.1
British piracy in the golden age : history and interpretation, 1660-1730. Volume 3 /Editor Joel H. Baer. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
East India patronage and the British state : the Scottish elite and politics in the eighteenth century /George K. McGilvary. The author explores the role of patronage in the East India Company from the 1720s to the 1770s, focusing on the appointment of Scots to key positions within the Company and its shipping. As a result, the author seeks to demonstrate the extent to which the Company contributed to the political, economic and social development of Scotland and as a result ensured political stability and support for the Union of the Scottish and English Parliaments which had taken place in 1707. An appendix includes a select list of Scottish providers and recipients of patronage between 1720 and 1779 organised by name and showing brief details of their role. c2008. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 347.71EAST INDIA
Maritime history as global history / edited by Maria Fusaro and Amâelia Polâonia. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 94(100:26)