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Banker, Gerard
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Astrolabe
Carte particuliere des costes de l'Afrique qui comprend le Pays de Cafres &c. Levee par ordre express des roys de Portugal sous qui on en a fait la decouverte. (Chart)
Terrestrial table globe (Table globe)
Tellurium
Celestial facsimile globe gores (Facsimile globe gore)
Celestial facsimile globe gores (Facsimile globe gore)
Folder (Folder)
Terrestrial facsimile globe gores (Facsimile globe gore)
Terrestrial facsimile globe gores (Facsimile globe gore)
Terrestrial facsimile globe gores (Facsimile globe gore)
Large Pamphlet explaining different aspects to 'Les Spheres Terrestre & Celeste de Gerard Mercator 1541 et 1551' (Pamphlet)
Nova et castigatior comitatus Hollandiae descriptio (Map)
Septentrionalium terrarum descriptio per Gerardum Mercatorem cum privilegio (Chart)
Curacao from the Dutch originals of Gerard van Keulen (Chart)
A Dutch Yacht and a Dutch warship, 2nd rate, ca.1675 (Print)
Diverse Navires... Navium Hollandicarum... Iohanne Percelles. Title page (Print)
Pierre-Andre De Suffren De Saint-Tropez (Print)
Carolus II. Mag. Brit. et Hiberniae Rex (Print)
Thomas Cogan, M.D. Living Founder of the Royal Humane Society (Print)
St Helena (Print)
The Revolt of the Fleet, 1642 (Print)
John, First Marquis of Hamilton OB.1604. From the Original...in the Collection of...The Duke of Hamilton (Print)
The Revolt of the Fleet. The...Earl of Warwick with the command of the Fleet contrary to his Majesty's Pleasure... (Print)
Willem van den Velden [van de Velde], Ships Draughtsman to King Charles the II. Engraved from an Original Picture of Sir Godfrey Kneller, in the Possession of the Rt Honble Sir Edward Walpole. Knt of the Bath (Print)
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