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    A system of seamanship, and naval tactics . Extracted from the Encyclopaedia, published by Thomas Dobson. Illustrated with copperplates.

    Clerk, John, 1728-1812. | Date: 1799
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    A sea manual, recommended to the young officers of the Royal Navy, as a companion to the signal book. By Sir Alexander Schomberg

    Schomberg, Alexander, 1720-1804. | Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]
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    The American sailor a treatise on practical seamanship, with hints and remarks relating thereto. Designed to contribute towards making navigation in general more perfect, and of consequence, less destructive to health, lives and property. By Samuel Buckner.

    Buckner, Samuel. | Date: [1790]

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