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A chart of Guinea describeing the seacoast from Cape de Verde to Cape Bona Esperanca. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:11 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 90 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Plaine chart. Bar scales in English
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A chart of Spaine perticulerly discribing the coastes of Biscaia Gallissia Portugal Andaluzia Granada &c.. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:2 800 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 270 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales
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A chart of the Bay of Biscaia. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:1 600 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Dutch miles and Spanish leagues. Additional Places: Biscay. A chart fr
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A chart of the Brittish Chanel. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1: 1 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Dutch miles and Spanish leagues. Additional Places: English Channel.
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A chart of the coast of America from Newfoundland to Cape Cod. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:5 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Dutch miles and Spanish leagues.
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A chart of the coasts of Barbarie, Gualata Arguyn & Genehoa from C Vincent to C Verd. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:6 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 270 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in English and French
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A chart of the East Sea. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:2 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Lacks graduation. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Dutch miles and Spanish leagues. Additional Places: Baltic. Contents Note: Contains a large
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A chart of the easternmost part of the East Indies with all the adjacent islands from Cape Comorin to Japan. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:17 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 270 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Plane chart.
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National Maritime Museum

A chart of the Levant or easternmost part of the Mediterranean Sea. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:5 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Lacks graduation. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Spanish leagues and Dutch miles. Contents Note:
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A chart of the North Sea. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:300 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 90 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Spanish leagues and Dutch miles. Contents Note: Contains
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A chart of the sea coast of Brazil, from Cape St Augustine to the Straights of Magellan, & in the South Sea, from the lattitud of eight degrees, to the said straights. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:13 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Bor
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A chart of the sea coasts of new England New Jarsey Virginia Maryland and Carolina from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Physical description Note: This is erroneously bound into PBE6857. Scale: [ca. 1: (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Bor
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National Maritime Museum

A chart of the sea-coasts of England and Ireland. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:1 650 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Dutch miles and Spanish leagues. Contents Note: Deco
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National Maritime Museum

A chart of the seacoasts from the Landsend of England to Cape Bona Esperanca. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:18 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 270 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Plane chart. Bar scales in English and Fren
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A chart of the South Sea. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:28 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Border graduated for latitude. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Dutch miles and Spanish leagues. Additional Places: Pacific Ocean. Contents
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A chart of the Tartarian Sea from Nova Zemla to Japan. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:12 500 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Spanish leagues and Dutch miles. Additional Pl
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A chart of the West Indies from Cape Cod to the River Oronoque. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:9 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Spanish leagues and Dutch miles. Addit
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A chart of the westermost part of the Mediterranean Sea.. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:5 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Spanish leagues and Dutch miles. Contents No
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A chart of the western ocean. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1: 14 500 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 90 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Plane chart. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Spanish leagues and Dutch miles. Add
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A chart of the western part of the East Indies. With all the aejacent islands, from Cape Bona Esperanca to Cape Comorin. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:16 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 270 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude.
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A chart of ye narrow seas newly corrected. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:2 500 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 90 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Dutch miles and Spanish leagues. Addit
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A draught of Cape Bona Esperanca. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:325 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 270 degrees. Bar scale in English leagues. Additional Places: Cape of Good Hope. Contents Note: Contains a large inset view. A chart f
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A draught of the sands, channels, buoyes, beacons and sea-marks upon the coast of England: from the Southforeland to Orfordness. Discovered by Capt. Gilbert Crane, and Capt. Tho: Browne, Elder Bretheren of ye Trinity House. The sea coast surveighed by Jon
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A Dutch flagship under easy sail. On the right, a ship viewed from slightly abaft the port beam with flag at the main and pendant at the fore, before a light breeze under fore course and fore topsail; the main topsail is on the cap and the mizzen topsail
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A general chart of the West India's. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:27 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Border graduated for latitude. Plane chart. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Dutch miles and Spanish leagues. Additional Pla
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A generall chart of the northerne navigation. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:9 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Spanish leagues and Dutch miles. Additional Places: Nort
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National Maritime Museum

A mapp of the citie and port of Tripoli in Barbary. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:6 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 105 degrees. Bar scales in paces and feet. Plan shown as bird's eye view. Hollar's rough setting-out arcs hav
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A new mapp of the island of Saint Hellena..... The body of this island lyeth in 16 deg. south lat.. Bound sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:4 700 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 223 degrees. Lacks graduation and rhumb lines. Bar scale in English miles. Addit
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A new mappe of the sea coasts of England, France and Holland, wherein the English names, scituation, point of the compass, and distance of the several ports, harbours, havens, creeks, sands, &c.. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:900 000 (bar)
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A state barge. A near port view of a large state barge with a Union jack.
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Die Ebbe und Fluth auss einer flaschen Landt Karten furgestelt. Single sheet cylindrical projection world map. This illustration from Happel's book 'Relationes Curiosae' is an important early representation of oceanographic phenomena. It il
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Medal commemorating the Spanish defeated at Messina, 1675. Medal commemorating the Spanish defeated at Messina, 1675. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig (right) with a small curl in front. Similar to preceding but the curl larger. Legend: '
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Novissima et accuratissima insulae Jamaicae descriptio. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:550 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scale in English miles. Additional Places: Jamaica. Contents Note: Contains the seal o
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Novissima totius terrarum orbis tabula [Newest Map of the Whole Earth]. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Double hemisphere, largely from Dutch sources. Includes astronomical diagrams including representations of the cosmographical hypotheses of Ptolemy, Copern
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Portrait of the 'Holmes'?. Viewed from astern, slightly on the starboard quarter, a portrait of a ship that is thought to be the ‘Holmes’, 24-gun fifth-rate, bought from Sir Robert Holmes 1671, made a fireship 1677, sold 1682. This
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Portrait of the 'Phoenix'. A portrait from before the starboard beam of the ‘Phoenix’, 42-gun fourth-rate, built 1671, burnt 1692. This is an accurate and careful drawing perhaps based on an offset but probably not in reverse. For
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Portrait of the 'Speedwell'. A portrait from before the port beam of the ‘Speedwell’, 28-gun fifth-rate, built 1656 as the ‘Cheriton’, renamed 1660, wrecked 1678. There does not seem to be any decoration round the upper d
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Portrait of the 'Speedwell'. Portrait of the ‘Speedwell’ viewed from the starboard quarter, but only as far forward as the main chains. This is an unsigned pencil drawing by the Younger. It has been drawn, according to Robinson, wit
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Portrait of the 'St David'. Portrait of the ‘St David’, fourth rate, 54 guns. She was built in 1667 and sunk in 1690. She is viewed from the starboard quarter. There are wreathed ports on the upper deck and square decorated ports on
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Portrait of the 'St David'. Viewed close on the port bow, a portrait of the ‘St David’, 54-gun fourth-rate, built 1667, sunk 1690. Only the foremost gun deck port is shown. This drawing is made with freedom and accuracy but without
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t Eylandt Martinique. This view is found in ""Tooneel des oorlogs, opgerecht in de Vereenigde Nederlanden; ..." published in four parts in 1675 by Lambert van den Bos. There was also a German edition, "Schau-Platz des Krieges: aufger
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The English Yacht 'Portsmouth' at Anchor. (Updated, August 2015) To the right is the 'Portsmouth', yacht, lying at anchor in shallow water in a calm, in starboard-broadside view. Her deck is crowded with people. She is flying a jack fr
1675
National Maritime Museum

The mapp of the land of Feroe containing XVII inhabited islands. Single sheet. Engraving on thin paper, mounted on card. Scale [circa 1:500,000]. The border is graduated for latitude and there is a scale in German miles. On the compass rose, E and W are t
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The windward passage from Jamaica, betwene the east end of Cuba, and the west end of Hispaniola. Bound sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: [ca. 1:1 800 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 270 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scale in English leag
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