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Arte de navegar em que se ensinam as regras praticas ... e roteyro das viagens, e costas maritimas de Guiné, Angóla, Brasil, Indias, e ilhas occidentaes, e orientaes, novamente emendado, e accrescentadas muitas derrotas / por Manoel Pimentel.
Manuel PimentelDate: 1746
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Astronomy: an allegorical titlepage with Minerva and Britannia. Engraving 1782.
Date: 1 January 1782Reference: 46472i
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Ship-building: five kinds of quadrant (top), and two types of telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.
Reference: 44513i
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An attempt to develop the law of storms by means of facts : arranged according to place and time; and hence to point out a cause for the variable winds, with the view to practical use in navigation.
William ReidDate: 1850
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The celebrated library of Harrison D. Horblit Esq, removed from Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Date: [1974-]
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Navigation: a compass, and details of its use. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 46688i
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Miscellany: British, 18th century
Date: 1756-c.1836Reference: MS.7642
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Ship-building: quadrant (top), and telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.
Reference: 44515i
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Navigation: a man using a Jacob's staff (cross staff), various other measuring devices at his feet. Woodcut, 16--.
Reference: 46692i
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The non-cartographical maritime works published by Mount and Page : a preliminary handlist / by Thomas R. Adams.
Thomas R. AdamsDate: 1985
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Astronomy: a diagram showing how to determine longitude. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.
John EmslieDate: 1851Reference: 46554i
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Introdução à história dos descobrimentos / [Luís de Albuquerque].
Luis de AlbuquerqueDate: 1962
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Navigation: several quadrants and a sextant. Engraving.
Reference: 46658i
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Specimina ichnographica: or, a brief narrative of several new inventions, and experiments; particularly, The navigating of a ship in a calm, the improvement of the engine to raise water by fire, a new method of drying malt &c. For all which his Majesty has lately been most graciously pleas'd to grant his Letters Patent to John Allen, M.D / [John Allen].
John AllenDate: 1730
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A complete collection of tables for navigation and nautical astronomy. With simple, concise, and accurate methods, for all the calculations useful at sea; particularly for deducing the longitude from lunar distances, and the latitude from two altitudes of the sun and the interval of time between the observations / By Joseph de Mendoza Rios.
Mendoza y Riós, José de, 1763-1816.Date: 1809
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Deliberationi astronomiche perpetue nel trovar con vero modo li giorni critici nell' infirmitadi humane, mediante l'uso di due Ruote, connessioni de' giudicii in quelle : Generali auertimenti nella Flebotomia, & applicationi: Natura, & andamenti delli segni Celesti, effetti nelle Congressioni, e mutue configurationi de' Pianeti, moto diurno loro, e natura. Modo facile per trovare a qualsivoglia hora il segno ascendente, necessario all' arti sì della Medicina, come del Navigare, & anco dell' Agricoltura, in questo libro inserte / Il tvtto descritto dal P.F. Francesco Manenti da Este.
Manenti, Francesco.Date: 1643
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Posthuma Fosteri : the description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed divers scales: and the vses thereof: invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster, late professor of astronomie in Gresham-Colledg. By which the most usuall propositions in astronomie, navigation, and dialling, are facily performed. Also, a further use of the said scales in deliniating of far declining dials; and of those that decline and recline, three severall wayes. With the deliniating of all horizontall dials, between 30, and 60 gr of latitude, without drawing any lines but the houres themselves.
Samuel FosterDate: 1652
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Navigation: a cross-staff or cross-bow, and a sailor using the device. Drawing after Edmund Gunter, 1624.
Edmund GunterReference: 46656i
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Arte del navigare / dell'eccel. dottor Pietro de Medina. ; Nella quale copiosamente si tratta tutto quello, che appartiene alla nauigatione, e sua cognitione. ; In oltre le regole, dichiartioni, noui secreti, & ausi necessarij al nauigare. Opera vtile, on solo à nauiganti, ma ancora à tutti quelli, che si dilettano di quest'arte. ; Di nouo ampliata, & corretta.
Pedro de MedinaDate: 1609
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Navigation: a globe, and putti showing its use. Engraving.
Date: 1768Reference: 46685i
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Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943)
Yersin, Alexandre, 1863-1943.Date: c.1892-1894Reference: MSS.8607-8608
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Physics: a magnetic compass, a horseshoe magnet, globes showing magnetic variation and telegraphic apparatus (below). Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.
John EmslieDate: 10 December 1850Reference: 47567i
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Navigation: various navigational aids, including a quadrant and a sextant. Engraving by Barlow.
Reference: 46660i
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Posthuma Fosteri : the description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed divers scales: and the uses thereof: invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster, late professor of astronomie in Gresham-Colledg. By which the most usual propositions in astronomy, navigation, and dialling, are facily performed. Also, a further use of the said scales in deliniating of far declining dials; and of those that decline and recline, three severall wayes. With the deliniating of all horizontall dials, between 30 and 60 gr. of latitude, without drawing any lines but the houres themselves.
Samuel FosterDate: 1654
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Navigation: a sextant, and detail of the cursor. Engraving, 1768.
Date: 1768Reference: 46683i

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Arte de navegar em que se ensinam as regras praticas ... e roteyro das viagens, e costas maritimas de Guiné, Angóla, Brasil, Indias, e ilhas occidentaes, e orientaes, novamente emendado, e accrescentadas muitas derrotas / por Manoel Pimentel.

Astronomy: an allegorical titlepage with Minerva and Britannia. Engraving 1782.

Ship-building: five kinds of quadrant (top), and two types of telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.

An attempt to develop the law of storms by means of facts : arranged according to place and time; and hence to point out a cause for the variable winds, with the view to practical use in navigation.

The celebrated library of Harrison D. Horblit Esq, removed from Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Navigation: a compass, and details of its use. Coloured engraving.

Miscellany: British, 18th century

Ship-building: quadrant (top), and telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.

Navigation: a man using a Jacob's staff (cross staff), various other measuring devices at his feet. Woodcut, 16--.

The non-cartographical maritime works published by Mount and Page : a preliminary handlist / by Thomas R. Adams.

Astronomy: a diagram showing how to determine longitude. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.

Introdução à história dos descobrimentos / [Luís de Albuquerque].

Navigation: several quadrants and a sextant. Engraving.

Navigation: a cross-staff or cross-bow, and a sailor using the device. Drawing after Edmund Gunter, 1624.

Navigation: a globe, and putti showing its use. Engraving.

Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943)

Physics: a magnetic compass, a horseshoe magnet, globes showing magnetic variation and telegraphic apparatus (below). Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.

Navigation: various navigational aids, including a quadrant and a sextant. Engraving by Barlow.

Navigation: a sextant, and detail of the cursor. Engraving, 1768.