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The Spanish empire in America ...
English Merchant
1747 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:98"15/17"
A proposal for increasing the strength of the British navy ...
Robins, Benjamin
1747 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.02
The forties : John Piper
Jenkins, David Fraser
2000 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
069.51:75
Hydrostatical and pneumatical lectures
Cotes, Roger
1747 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
531:094
Nouvelle theorie de la manoeuvre des vaisseaux a la portee des pilotes
Saverien, Alexandre
1747 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:656.61.052
Sea fisheries : the Sea Fisheries (Isle of Man) Order 1971
Great Britain. Statutory Instruments
1971 • GOVTPUB • 1 copy available.
639.2.052.3(428.9)
Merchant shipping : safety : the Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods) (Amendment) Regulations 1981
Great Britain. Statutory Instruments
1981 • GOVTPUB • 1 copy available.
614.8
The practical sea-gunner's companion : or, an introduction to the art of gunnery ...
Mountaine, William
1747 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:656.61.052
Barche e navi venetiane disegnate da Gasparo Galli
Galli, Gasparo
1747 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:629.12(453.1)"12/16"
La mature discutee et soumise a des nouvelles loix
Saverien, Alexandre
1747 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:656.61.052
Traite de la fabrique des manoeuvres pour les vaisseaux : ou l'art de la corderie perfectionne
Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis
1747 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:629.12.014.2
An authentic account of the late expedition to Bretagne. Conducted by Richard Lestock ... and Lieut General St Clair ...
Lestock, Richard
1747 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available.
094:355.48"1746"(441.1)
Resolutions of the C[our]t-m[artia]l upon the several articles of the charge against T[homa]s M[athew]s, Esq
1747 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available.
92Mathews
A letter to the gentlemen of the army
1757 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:355.353(42)"17"
Forsog til navnkundige danske moends livs og levnets bekrivelse andet stykke indeholdende den danske soe-heldt og vice-admiral Peder Tordenskjolds ...
Rothe, Casper Peter (comp)
1747 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:92Tordenskjold
The whole proceedings in the House of Peers upon the impeachment ... against Simon Lord Lovat, for high treason ...
Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Lords
1747 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available.
92Fraser:094:340.96"1746"
Le port de la libertâe : Brest, au temps de l'Indâependance amâericaine /Jean-Yves Besseliáevre, Alain Boulaire, Olivier Corre, Lenaèig L'Aot-Lombart, Marjolaine Mourot ; prâeface d'Olivier Poivre d'Arvor.
"In March 1778, the Scottish privateer John Paul Jones landed at Brest. He is the first officer of the young American navy to whom Louis XVI entrusts a ship. France has just joined the United States in fighting against the British Crown. The freedom of the young American nation gets ready on the docks of Penfeld ..."--Provided by the publisher.
[2016] • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.49"1778/1781"(42:44)
A complete system of geography : being a description of all the countries, islands, cities, chief towns, harbours, lakes, rivers, mountains, mines, etc of the known world ... the whole illustrated with seventy maps, by Emanuel Bowen ...
Bowen, Emanuel
1747 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available.
094:914/919
A proposal for encreasing the strength of the British navy ...
Robins, Benjamin
1767 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
094:355.461
An Act for the better securing the payment of shares of prizes taken from the enemy, to the Royal Hospital at Greenwich; and for preventing the embezzlement of goods and stores belonging to the said hospital. 20 George II. 1746
Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc
1747 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available.
355.292.3:094:342.537
The calculator : being, correct and necessary tables for computation. Adapted to science, business, and pleasure /by James Dodson,
Dodson, James
M. DCC. XLVII. [1747] • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
51:094
A letter to the right honourable George, Earl of Macclesfield. : Concerning an apparent motion obeyed in some of the fixed stars.
Bradley, James
1747 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available.
52.09:094
Biographical memoirs of Admiral Sir Charles Knowles 1st Baronet 1700-1777 : with memoir of his son, Admiral Sir Charles Henry Knowles Bt, KGCB
This item was prepared for the 250th celebrations of the 1747 Siege of Fort at No. 4, subsequently named Charlestown. It consists of items relating to Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet taken from: the Naval Chronicles of 1799; the Mariners' Mirror (Russia 1771-1774); the Saturday Review of Jamaica 1928; the Pepperell Papers; and the Dictionary of National Biography of 1895. There is also a memoir of his son, Admiral Sir Charles Henry Knowles, 2nd Baronet, taken from Ralfe's Naval Biography of 1828 and the Dictionary of National Biography of 1895.
1997 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
92Knowles, Charles Henry
A letter to the Right Honourable the Lords of the Admiralty, setting forth the inconveniences and hardships, the Marine officers are subject to, who serve on board the fleet
Officer, An (pseud)
1757 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:355.353(42)"17"
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