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ARCTIC AMERICA Discoveries of the Searching Expedition under the Command of CAPTN. H.T. Austin. R.N.C.B. & CAPTN. Penny. 1851. (Chart; Print)
Captain Field's Improved Parallel Rule (Parallel rule)
Longships (Chart; Print)
England, south coast, Newhaven surveyed by Captn. R.F. Bullock R.N. 1852 (Chart; Print)
England, south coast, Mounts Bay, Penzance Bay surveyed by Commr. Williams and Mr J. Wells, Master 1851 (Chart; Print)
England, south coast, Weymouth and Portland Roads surveyed by Capt. Sheringham, Lieut. Cox and Mr Taylor 1850 (Chart; Print)
France, west coast, sheet VII, Raz de Sein to Ile d'Ouessant including the Rade de Brest and B. de Douarnenez from the Pilote Francais 1822 (Chart; Print)
France, west coast, the channels between Ile D' Ouessant and the Mainland from the Pilote Francais 1813 (Chart; Print)
France, west coast, sheet IV, Les Sables d'Olonne to Bourgneuf from the Pilote Francais 1828 (Chart; Print)
France, west coast, sheet VI, I. de Groix to Raz de Sein from the Pilote Francais 1823 (Chart; Print)
France, west coast, Brest Roadstead from the Pilote Francais 1822. (Chart; Print)
Octant box
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Plan of Spithead showing the proposed evolutions at the review of the fleet by Her Majesty on Wednesday the 23rd April 1856 (Chart; Print)
Wind chart of the south and east coast of Africa (Chart; Print)
Quintant telescope
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Ionian Sea Santa Maura Kephalonia Ithaca and Zante Islands with the coast of Greece from Parga to Katakolo and the Gulfs of Arta and Patra by Captain WH Smyth RN KSF and his assistant officers 1825 (Chart; Print)
Sea of Marmora, Princes Islands surveyed by Commr. T. Spratt, H.M.S. Spitfire 1854 (Chart; Print)
Spain, north and west coasts, Bayonne to Oporto from charts published by the Hydrographical Office at Madrid. (Chart; Print)
Spain west coast, Port of Ferrol from a Spanish Government Chart 1894 (Chart; Print)
Spain, north coast, Port Santander surveyed by Dn. Antonio Arevalo and Dn. Bernado Del Campo 1840. With additions from a survey by Mr. F.J. Evans 2nd. Master RN 1839. (Chart; Print)
Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal chiefly from a French survey made in 1876 (Chart; Print)
Coast of Syria, Gulf of Iskanderun to Markhab surveyed by Lieut. E.W. Brooker, F. Skead, Master, and R.H. Blamey, Master Assist. under the direction of Commr. A.L. Mansell RN, HMS Tartarus 1858 (Chart; Print)
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