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'A View taken in the bay of Oaite Peha [Vaitepiha] Otaheite [Tahiti]' ('Tahiti Revisited'). Hodges' paintings of the Pacific are vivid records of British exploration. He was appointed by the Admiralty to record the places discover
1776
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'Bedford' (1775). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board decoration [part of plan missing], sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Bedford' (1775), as built at Woolwich Dock
Circa October to November 1775
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'[Cascade Cove] Dusky Bay'. Hodges' paintings of the Pacific are vivid records of British exploration. He was appointed by the Admiralty to record the places discovered on Cook's second voyage, undertaken in the 'Resolution'
1775
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. Calendar for the single year of 1775. The calendar is made from a disc of bronze, which has worn lettering on one side. On one side of the calendar is a table with the months in three letter abbreviations and a table with the numbers for the number of d
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. The octant has a hornbeam frame and limb with a brass index arm, fittings, and a brass stop for the index arm. There is no tangent screw and the clamping screw is located on the back of the index arm. The octant has two index shades, one in blue and the
1775
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. This achromatic telescope has a tapering mahogany barrel and a single brass draw tube. The other brass fittings include a pivoted eyepiece cover and a brass objective lens cap attached to the barrel collar with a chain. There is also a green baize cover
1775
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A chart of Broach Bar and river surveyed by Lieut WIlliam Augustus Skynner 1773. Scale: circa 1:200,000. Table of references
1775
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A chart of Nova Scotia. Imprint Nov.r [blank] 1775. Shoals outlined. Printed on LVG paper. Border yellow. Aliases for numerous coastal place-names have been added in manuscript.
1775
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A chart of Nova Scotia. Plate change: Lettering added - Part of the Island of St John. Other features: Printed on Bates paper. Aliases added in manuscript, as in HNS10A.
1775
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A chart of Nova Scotia. Plate changes: Imprint April 1st 1779. Land shading intensified. Page number 'PL.8.' engraved top right. Other features: Printed on Bates paper, border yellow.
1779
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A chart of Nova Scotia. Plate changes: Imprint Decr. 1st 1780. Other features: Printed on Bates paper, sheets not joined. Border yellow, land tinted green/brown.
1780
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A chart of Nova Scotia. Plate changes: Imprint November 1st 1780. Page number changed to 'PL.5.' Border recut. Other features: Printed on Bates paper, border yellow.
1780
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A chart of Nova Scotia. Plate changes: Land shaded, shoals stippled, variation notes and tidal information added. Settlement boundaries shown and further names added, including Cape Breton Island, with some aliases incorporated. Other features: Printed on
1775
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A chart of Nova Scotia. Plate changes: sandbanks and Atlantic Ocean named. Aliases engraved. Other features: Printed on Bates paper.
1775
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A chart of Nova Scotia. Plate same as HNS10A. Other features: Printed on unwatermarked paper, border yellow. Page number '4' type stamped overleaf.
1775
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A chart of Nova Scotia. There are eight variants of this chart in the collection.
1775
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A chart of the Banks of Newfoundland, drawn from a great number of hydrographical surveys, chiefly from those of Chabert, Cook and Fleurieu, connected and ascertained by astronomical observations.. Single sheet. Hand col. engr. Scale: [ca.1:2 500 000 (bar
1775
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A chart of the harbour of Boston, composed from different surveys, but principally from that taken in 1769, by Mr George Callender, late Master of His Majesty's ship Romney. A two-sheet chart with a sheet of sailing directions attached. Stored with t
1775
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A chart of the harbour of Boston, composed from different surveys, but principally from that taken in 1769, by Mr George Callender, late Master of His Majesty's ship Romney. Three sheets. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:25 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Variat
1775
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A chart of the harbour of Boston, composed from different surveys, but principally from that taken in 1769, by Mr George Callender, late Master of His Majesty's ship Romney. Three sheets. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:25 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Variat
1775
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A chart of the harbour of Boston, composed from different surveys, but principally from that taken in 1769, by Mr George Callender, late Master of His Majesty's ship Romney. Three sheets. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:25 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Variat
1781
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A chart of the harbour of Boston, composed from different surveys, but principally from that taken in 1769, by Mr George Callender, late Master of His Majesty's ship Romney. Three sheets. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:25 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Variat
1775
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A chart of the harbour of Boston, composed from different surveys, but principally from that taken in 1769, by Mr George Callender, late Master of His Majesty's ship Romney. Three sheets. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:25 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Variat
1781
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A chart of the harbour of Boston, composed from different surveys, but principally from that taken in 1769, by Mr George Callender, late Master of His Majesty's ship Romney. Three sheets. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:25 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Variat
1775
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A chart of the harbour of Boston, composed from different surveys, but principally from that taken in 1769, by Mr George Callender, late Master of His Majesty's ship Romney. Three sheets. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:25 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Variat
1775
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A chart of the Straits of Magellan. Inlarged from the chart published at Madrid in 1769, by Don Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla of the Royal Academy of St. Fernando. and improved from the observations and surveys of Captns. Byron, Wallis and Carteret com
1775
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A general chart of the Island of Newfoundland with the rocks & soundings, drawn from surveys taken by order of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. By James Cook and Michael Lane surveyors and others.. Single sheet. Hand col.
1775
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A general chart of the Island of Newfoundland with the rocks & soundings... by James Cook and Michael Lane surveyors and others. Single sheet. Engr. Medium: Segmented and backed. Scale: ca. 1:1 300 000. Additional Places: Canada.
1775
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A View of Deptford. Engraved for Harrison's History of London. Copper-plate print, titled below the image 'A View of Deptford' and lettered above it 'Engraved for Harrison's History of London' identifying it as a plate from W
1775
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A View of Deptford. Engraved for Harrison's History of London. Technique includes engraving. In 1513 Henry VIII founded a dockyard at Deptford to build ships for the Royal Navy. In the 18th century a Victualling Yard was established alongside, where
1775
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A view of Milford Haven in Nova Scotia. Framed and glazed watercolour on paper and backed with paper. Ends cut off.
1775
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An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontiers, shewing...mountains, rivers, swamps, marshes, bays, creeks, harbours, sandbanks and soundings on the coasts; with the roads and Indian paths as well as the boundary or provincial lin
1775
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An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontiers, shewing...mountains, rivers, swamps, marshes, bays, creeks, harbours, sandbanks and soundings on the coasts; with the roads and Indian paths as well as the boundary or provincial lin
1775
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Argo (1758). Scale 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck and lower deck for Argo (1758) ), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate, as fitted at Portsmouth in March 1775.
1775
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Captain John Bentinck, 1737-75, and his son, William Bentinck, 1764-1813. A double full-length portrait showing Captain Bentinck seated on the left facing right in captain's full-dress uniform, over three years, 1774-87, and a grey wig. William, his
1775
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Cast of a medal commemorating Polish astronomer Martin Poczobut (1728-1810). Cast of a medal struck in honour of Polish astronomer Martin Poczobut (1728-1810) by the orders of the Polish King Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1732-1798). In a black case. Obve
1775
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Copley Medal. Royal Society, Copley Medal awarded to Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811), "in consideration of his curious and laborious Observations on the Attraction of Mountains, made in Scotland, – on Schehallien" . Obverse:
1775
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Coventry (1757). Scale 1:96. Plan showing the quater deck and forecastle, upper deck, lower deck and fore and aft platforms for Coventry (1757) , a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate as taken off at Chatham Dockyard in 1775. Signed Israel Pownoll (Master Shipwrig
circa. March 1775
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De Held Woltemade. Print
1775
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Diadem (1782); Magnanime (1780); Sampson (1781). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for Magnanime (1780), and in 1776 approved for Sampson (1781), and in 1778 for Diadem (1782), all
6 November 1775
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Engraved for the Modern Universal Traveller. View of Greenwich from Deptford. This may be a variant on PAD2193, 2194 and 4103 and PAI1968, since it has a different imprint. A view of Greenwich from Deptford with four sailing vessels and two rowing boats.
1775
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General view of the Island of Otaheite [Tahiti, from the south-east]. (Updated, August 2018) Hodges' paintings of the Pacific are vivid records of British exploration. He was appointed by the Admiralty to record the places discovered on Cook's s
1775
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Lady Hamilton aged 10. Drawing. The original mount is in a melinex envelope and has several inscriptions, see below. 'Portrait of a welsh girl afterwards Lady Hamilton', inscribed on wood support in pen. 'Drawn by the Honble Charle Grevil
1775
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Leopard (1790); Hannibal (1779). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the bod plan, sheer lines, and longirudinal half-breadth proposed for Leopard (1790), and later in May 1776 proposed for Hannibal (1779), both 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers. Note that the plan
4 November 1775
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Medal commemorating Dr Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (1732-1807). Medal depicting Dr Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (1732-1807) which commemorates the refounding by him of the Literary Society of Bourg-en-Bresse in 178
1783
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Medal commemorating the establishment of a lazaretto at Marseilles, 1775. Medal commemorating the establishment of a lazaretto at Marseilles, 1775. Obverse: Bust of King Louis XVI in a long wig and drapery (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS XVI . REX CHRIS
1775
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Medusa (1785). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for Medusa (1785), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker. Signed by John Williams [Surveyor of the Navy, 1765-1784].
4 August 1775
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Orpheus (1774). Scale 1:96. Plan showing the quaterdeck, forecastle, upper deck, and lower deck for Orpheus (1774), a 32-gun, Fifth Rate Frigate, as taken off at Plymouth Dockyard in September 1775. NMM, Progress Book, volume 5, folio 250, states that &#
c. September 1775
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Plan of the fortifications and harbour of St Johns in Newfoundland with the sea coast and country adjacent from Deadmans Head to Quiddy Viddy. Single sheet. Col. ms. Scale: [ca. 1:14 000]. Cartographic Note: Ungraduated. North at 343 degrees. Variation sh
1775
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Port Amherst [and] Port Haldimand. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 12 degrees. Variation shown 12 degrees W. No scales on any state. Latitude error until 28C. Additional Places: Nova Scotia. Contents Note: S
1781
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Port Amherst [and] Port Haldimand. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 12 degrees. Variation shown 12 degrees W. No scales on any state. Latitude error until 28C. Additional Places: Nova Scotia. Contents Note: S
1781
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Port Amherst [and] Port Haldimand. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 12 degrees. Variation shown 12 degrees W. No scales on any state. Latitude error until 28C. Additional Places: Nova Scotia. Contents Note: S
1779
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Port Amherst [and] Port Haldimand. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 12 degrees. Variation shown 12 degrees W. No scales on any state. Latitude error until 28C. Additional Places: Nova Scotia. Contents Note: S
1775
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Port Amherst [and] Port Haldimand. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 12 degrees. Variation shown 12 degrees W. No scales on any state. Latitude error until 28C. Additional Places: Nova Scotia. Contents Note: S
1775
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Port Amherst [and] Port Haldimand. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 12 degrees. Variation shown 12 degrees W. No scales on any state. Latitude error until 28C. Additional Places: Nova Scotia. Contents Note: S
1775
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Port Amherst [and] Port Haldimand. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 12 degrees. Variation shown 12 degrees W. No scales on any state. Latitude error until 28C. Additional Places: Nova Scotia. Contents Note: S
1775
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Port Amherst [and] Port Haldimand. There are seven variants of this chart in the collection.
1775
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Possession Bay in the Island of South Georgia (without title). This engraving, likely after a drawing by artist William Hodges, comes from the official account of Cook's second voyage, 'A Voyage towards the South Pole', published by Strahan
1775
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Royal Sovereign (1786). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Royal Sovereign (1786), a 100-gun First Rate, three-decker. The plan also illustrates the alterations to the mast positions during her refit at Plymouth Dockyard between June and Ju
circa May 1775
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Shannon (1796), Maidstone (1796). Scale 1:48. Plann showing the body plan, sheer lines with scroll figurehead and longitudinal half breadth proposed and approved for Shannon (1796), Maidstone (1796), both 32-gun, Fifth Rate Frigats to be built of fir at D
2 February 1795
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Shipwreck off the Ligurian coast. Plate No.65.
1775
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Siren/Syren (1773). Scale 1:96. Plan showing the quarter deck and forecastle, upper deck, lower deck and fore and aft platforms for Siren/Syren (1773), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate as taken off at Chatham Dockyard in 1775. NMM, Progress Book, volume 5, f
1775
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Sphinx (1775). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board decoration and her name on the counter, the sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and the longitudinal half-breadth for Sphinx (1775), a 20-gun Sixth Rate, as built at Port
Circa October-November 1775
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Sphinx (1775). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the fore & after platform with some fittings for Sphinx (1775), a 20-gun Sixth Rate, possibly as built.
Circa 1775
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Sphinx (1775). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck with some fittings for Sphinx (1775), a 20-gun Sixth Rate, possibly as built.
Circa 1775
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Sphinx (1775). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Sphinx (1775), a 20-gun Sixth Rate, possibly as built.
Circa 1775
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Sphinx (1775). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck with some fittings for Sphinx (1775), a 20-gun Sixth Rate, possibly as built.
Circa 1775
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Swindrecht. Plate No.96.
1775
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The seat of war in New England by an American volunteer, with the marches of the several corps sent by the colonies towards Boston, with the attack on Bunkers Hill.. Single sheet. Hand col. engr. Scale: [ca. 1:500 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Graduated
1775
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The south coast of Ireland, from Gally Head to Cape Clear Island surveyed and navigated by M.Mackenzie senr.. Single sheet. Engraving. Two leaves of paper joined vertically. Scale: [ca. 1:63 000 (bar)]. Scale in miles. North at 24 degrees (chart aligned o
1775
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The south west coast of Ireland from the Staggs of Castle Haven to Dursey I. Surveyed and navigated by M. Mackenzie Sen.. Single sheet (two sheets joined). Engraving. Scale: circa. 1:75,000 (bar). Scale in English miles. Rhumb lines. Soundings. Variation
1775
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The Virgin Islands from English and Danish surveys. Single sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: ca. 1:500 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Graduated, meridians of London and Ferro. Scales in sea leagues and statute miles. Additional Places: Caribbean. Contents Note:
1775
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The voyage down the Danube. Plate No.89.
1775
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Unicorn (1776); Perseus (1776). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Unicorn (1776) and Perseus (1776), both 20-gun Sixth Rates building at Rotherhithe by John Randall & Co. Signed by John Williams [Surveyor of the Navy, 1765-1784]
8 December 1775
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View of Greenwich from Deptford. Engraved for Harrison's History of London. Technique includes etching. Stored with PAD2194, another copy. See PAI1968, an uncoloured copy, for notes. This print was engraved for 'Harrison's History of London
1775
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View of Greenwich from Deptford. Engraved for Harrison's History of London.. Technique includes etching. Stored with PAD2193, another copy. See PAI1968, an uncoloured copy, for notes. This print was engraved for Harrison's 'History of Lond
1775
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View of Greenwich from Deptford. Engraved for Harrison's History of London.. The Old Royal Naval College is the great baroque masterpiece of English architecture, set in landscaped grounds on the River Thames in the centre of the Maritime Greenwich W
1775
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View of Greenwich from Deptford. Engraved for Harrison's History of London.. This print from Walter Harrison's London 'History' portrays a routine view of reasonable topographical accuracy as regards the main buildings (though probably
1775
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[Canso harbour]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: Aligned on magnetic north. Variation shown 14 degrees 45' W, 57A and 57B have longitudes erroneously increasing from west to east. In 57A* and 57B* these errors ar
1775
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[Canso harbour]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: Aligned on magnetic north. Variation shown 14 degrees 45' W, 57A and 57B have longitudes erroneously increasing from west to east. In 57A* and 57B* these errors ar
1781
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[Canso harbour]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: Aligned on magnetic north. Variation shown 14 degrees 45' W, 57A and 57B have longitudes erroneously increasing from west to east. In 57A* and 57B* these errors ar
1775
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[Canso harbour]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: Aligned on magnetic north. Variation shown 14 degrees 45' W, 57A and 57B have longitudes erroneously increasing from west to east. In 57A* and 57B* these errors ar
1779
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[Canso harbour]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: Aligned on magnetic north. Variation shown 14 degrees 45' W, 57A and 57B have longitudes erroneously increasing from west to east. In 57A* and 57B* these errors ar
1775
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[Canso harbour]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: Aligned on magnetic north. Variation shown 14 degrees 45' W, 57A and 57B have longitudes erroneously increasing from west to east. In 57A* and 57B* these errors ar
1775
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[Canso harbour]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: Aligned on magnetic north. Variation shown 14 degrees 45' W, 57A and 57B have longitudes erroneously increasing from west to east. In 57A* and 57B* these errors ar
1775
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[Canso harbour]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: Aligned on magnetic north. Variation shown 14 degrees 45' W, 57A and 57B have longitudes erroneously increasing from west to east. In 57A* and 57B* these errors ar
1775
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[Canso harbour]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: Aligned on magnetic north. Variation shown 14 degrees 45' W, 57A and 57B have longitudes erroneously increasing from west to east. In 57A* and 57B* these errors ar
1775
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[Canso harbour]. There are nine variants of this chart in the collection.
1775
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[Crow Harbor]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 180 degrees. Variation shown 14 degrees 50' W. Additional Places: Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia. Contents Note: Contains a view and sailing directions within
1781
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[Crow Harbor]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 180 degrees. Variation shown 14 degrees 50' W. Additional Places: Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia. Contents Note: Contains a view and sailing directions within
1781
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[Crow Harbor]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 180 degrees. Variation shown 14 degrees 50' W. Additional Places: Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia. Contents Note: Contains a view and sailing directions within
1779
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[Crow Harbor]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 180 degrees. Variation shown 14 degrees 50' W. Additional Places: Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia. Contents Note: Contains a view and sailing directions within
1779
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[Crow Harbor]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 180 degrees. Variation shown 14 degrees 50' W. Additional Places: Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia. Contents Note: Contains a view and sailing directions within
1775
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[Crow Harbor]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 180 degrees. Variation shown 14 degrees 50' W. Additional Places: Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia. Contents Note: Contains a view and sailing directions within
1775
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[Crow Harbor]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 180 degrees. Variation shown 14 degrees 50' W. Additional Places: Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia. Contents Note: Contains a view and sailing directions within
1775
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[Crow Harbor]. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: North at 180 degrees. Variation shown 14 degrees 50' W. Additional Places: Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia. Contents Note: Contains a view and sailing directions within
1775
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