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    Giovanni Alfonso Borelli on the construction of galleys / by W.E. Knowles Middleton.

    William Edgar Knowles Middleton | Date: 1973
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    An humble proposal for the increase of our home trade , And a Defence to Gibraltar: being a better security for all our shipping that trades in the straights, and entirely checks and restrains the growth of Highway-Men, Foot-Pads, House-Breakers, Shop-Listers, Horse-Stealers, Incendiaries and Others, that are guilty of enormous Crimes; rendering them useful, that in case of a War, it will be above a Hundred Thousand a Year in this Kingdoms way. By Joseph Davies.

    Davies, Joseph | Date: 1731
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    An humble proposal for the increase of our home trade, and a defence to Gibraltar ... By Joseph Davies.

    Davies, Joseph | Date: 1731
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    A bas-relief of a warship at the battle of Actium. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1771.

    Giovanni Battista Piranesi | Date: [1771?] | Reference: 2499309i

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