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. Standard wooden nocturnal except for following details: For use with Little Bear only. Handle is pierced by semicircle and inverted tear-drop. Some decoration on the handle. The main disc is rather warped. Reverse only has a 16 point compass rose with p
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Carte generale des costes de l'Europe sur l'Ocean comprises depuis Dronthem en Norvege jusques au Destroit de Gibraltar. Single sheet. Engraving coloured in outline. Scale: [circa 1:7,500,000]. Border graduated for latitude and longitude with t
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Carte particuliere des costes de l'Afrique qui comprehend le Royaume de Cacheo le Province de Gelofo etc levee par ordre expres des Roys de Portugal sous qui ou en a fait la decouverte a Amsterdam chez Pierre Mortier Libraire…. Scale: circa 1:

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Carte particuliere des costes meridionales d'Angleterre qui comprend l'Isle de Wicht, et le havre de Porsmouth, avec les autres isles, bancs, et costes qui sont entre le havre de Chichester et ce luy de la Pole. Levee et gravee par ordre du Roy
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Counter commemorating the second capture of Rosas, 1693. Counter commemorating the second capture of Rosas, 1693. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig, high on the forehead (right). Legend: 'LVDOVICUS MAGNVS REX' Reverse: A flower and t
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Falmouth. To Sir Peter Killegrew, Baronet, this map is dedicated and presented by Capt. Greenvile Collins. Hyd: to ye king.. Single sheet. Engr. Medium: On modern backing sheet. Scale: [ca. 1:44 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Ungraduated. Soundings and sa
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Kingsale Harbour. Single sheet. Engraving, laid on modern backing sheet. Scale [circa 1:17,000 (bar)]. Bar scale in English miles. North is at 120 degrees. This is an ungraduated chart with a single compass radiate. Soundings and shoals are marked and th
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La Carte IV. Carte Nouvelle des Costes de Bretagne depuis St Malo jusques a l'embaucheure de la Riviere de Loire... 1693. Hand-coloured.
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Medal celebrating the entente cordiale. Medal commemorating the flourishing navy. Uniface. France armed with the trident, and crowned, driving Neptune's sea chariot (to left). Legend: 'SPLENDOR REI NAVALIS.' (The glory of the Navy.) Exergue
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Medal celebrating the entente cordiale. Medal commemorating the flourishing navy. Uniface. France armed with the trident, and crowned, driving Neptune's sea chariot (to left). Legend: 'SPLENDOR REI NAVALIS.' (The glory of the Navy.) Exergue
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Medal commemorating the capture of Rosas, 1693. Medal commemorating the capture of Rosas, 1693. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig with curls on the neck (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: Hercules (rig
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Medal commemorating the Duke of Saxegotha's return home from England. Medal commemorating the Duke of Saxegotha's return home from England. Obverse: A hilly landscape, a fountain with a dolphin (left), a tree (right). Legend: 'TE NON PRAES
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Medal commemorating the flourishing Navy. Medal commemorating the flourishing navy. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig with curls on the neck (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: France, crowned, seated i
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Medal commemorating the Smyrna fleet being attacked off Gibraltar, 1693. Medal commemorating the Smyrna fleet being attacked off Gibraltar, 1693. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig with curls on the neck (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNU
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Naval reward medal. Naval reward medal. Obverse: Naval reward, 1692-93. Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig with curls on the neck (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: The king, seated in the stern of an antique ga
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Plymouth. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:26 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Ungraduated. Soundings, shallows, rocks shown. Scale in miles. Contents Note: Dedication to Arthur, Earl of Torrington, Baron Herbert of Torbay, 1st Lord of the Admiralty. Title
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[Canada] and Newfoundland taken by Capt. Cyprian Southake in the yeares 1689-1690-1691-1692 made anno 1693 by Augustine Fitzhugh. Single sheet. Col. ms. Medium: Vellum, mounted on vellum backing. Cartographic Note: Border graduated for latitude. Rhumb lin
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[North Sea]. Single sheet. Coloured manuscript on vellum. Scale [circa 1:400,000]. The chart contains latitude bars and rhumb lines. Sandbanks and soundings are shown. Very clean and bright. Rhumb lines do not meet at nodes. Parts of the edges have been r
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Ground plan of the City of Londonderry relieved by Mountjoy, Phoenix and Dartmouth breaking the Boom, 16th April-30 July 1689. Page 5.
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