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Thomas Pennant 1726 - 1798 Thomas, Colin • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92Pennant
The reluctant goldsmith : Abraham Portal (1726-1809) Portal, Christopher 1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.71East India
. / Johnson, Charles. 1726. Johnson, Charles, 1726 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:341.362.1
assistant, or, A treatise concerning the calculation of numbers belonging to all sorts of clocks : 1726 Elliott, Henry, 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11(42)"16/17"
A Dictionary of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 Plomer, H R 1968 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 655(03)
A contrivance to avoid irregularities in a clock's motion Graham, G 1733 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:681.11.032.11:546.49
Amateur sailing in open and half-decked boats Biddle, Tyrrel E 1886 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 797.144
Enlightenment travel and British identities : Thomas Pennant's tours of Scotland and Wales /Mary-Ann Constantine "Thomas Pennant of Downing, Flintshire (1726-1798), naturalist, antiquarian and self-styled 'Curious Traveller', published accounts of his pioneering travels in Scotland and Wales to wide acclaim between 1769 and 1784, directly inspiring Dr Johnson, James Boswell and hundreds of subsequent tourists. A keen observer and cataloguer of plants, birds, minerals and animals, Pennant corresponded with a trans-continental network of natural scientists (Linnaeus, Simon Pallas, Joseph Banks, Gilbert White), and was similarly well-connected with leading British antiquarians (William Borlase, Francis Grose, Richard Gough). Frequently cited as witness or authority across a wide range of disciplines, Pennant's texts have seldom been themselves the focus of critical attention. There is as yet no biography of Pennant, nor any edition of his prolific correspondence with many of the leading minds of the European Enlightenment. The 'Tours' were widely read and much imitated. As annotated copies reveal, readers were far from passive in their responses to the text, and 'local knowledge' would occasionally be summoned to challenge or correct them. But Pennant indisputably helped bring about a richer, more complex understanding of the multiple histories and cultures of Britain at a time when 'Britishness' was itself a fragile and developing concept. Because the 'Tours' drew on a vast network of informants (often incorporating material wholesale), they are, as texts, fascinatingly multi-voiced: many of the period's political tensions run through them. This volume of eleven essays seeks to address the comparative neglect of Pennant's travel writing by bringing together researchers from literary criticism, art history, Celtic studies, archaeology and natural history. Attentive to the visual as well as textual aspects of his topographical enquiries, it demonstrates how much there is to be said about the cross-currents (some pulling in quite contrary directions) in Pennant's work. In so doing they rehabilitate a neglected aspect of the Enlightenment in relation to questions of British identity, offering a new assessment of an important chapter in the development of domestic travel writing."--Provided by publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92PENNANT
Sir John Vanbrugh : a biography /Kerry Downes. Downes, Kerry. 1987. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 822.4
[Theodosiou Sphairikon biblia 3â (romanized form) = Theodosii Sphaericorum libri tres. Theodosius, 1707. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 514.113
British piracy in the golden age : history and interpretation, 1660-1730. Volume 3 /Editor Joel H. Baer. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
Last will and testament Harrison, John, 1726 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 347.67
Mathematical tables ... Sherwin, Henry 1726 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:519.66
Admiral Lord Howe / by David Syrett ; foreword by James Bradford. "Howe's career spans Britain's 18th century naval wars, from the War of Austrian Succession to the Great Mutiny at Spithead in the French Revolutionary War. [...] In the Seven Years War Howe conducted Pitt's raids on the coast of France and led the British attack at Quiberon Bay. He initially sought a political solution to the American Revolution through negotiations with Benjamin Franklin. When war did erupt, Howe commanded the British squadron in America and subsequently conducted the Third Relief of Gibraltar. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty in the government of the Younger Pitt and in the French Revolutionary War, Howe commanded the Channel Fleet, defeated the French on the Glorious First of June, and negotiated the end of the Great Mutiny at Spithead." --Provided by the publisher. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HOWE
The mariner's compass rectified Wakely, Andrew 1726 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527
A history of the voyages and travels of Capt Nathaniel Uring... Uring, Nathaniel 1726 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4"17"
The voyages and travels of Captain Nathaniel Uring Uring, Nathaniel 1928 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4"17"
Sir John Vanbrugh : storyteller in stone /Vaughan Hart. Hart, Vaughan, c2008. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 72.04"16/17"
A discourse of the laws relating to pirates and piracies, and the marine affairs of Great Britain 1726 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:341.362.1
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica Newton, Issac 1726 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5.093:094
Architecture de Palladio, divisee en quatre livres ... : avec des notes d'Inigo Jones Leoni, Jaques 1726 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:72Palladio
Methodus inveniendi : longitudinem meridianorum tamin mari, quam in terra Biestero, Joh. Petr. 1726 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.09:094
Ways and means to man the navy with not less than fifteen thousand able sailors ... Robe, Thomas 1740 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:355.21(42)"17"
Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Newton, Isaac 1871 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5.093:094