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National Maritime Museum

Cork halfpenny token. Cork halfpenny token. Obverse: Inscription 'C.C.' Reverse: Port broadside view of a three-masted ship under sail, castle (right). Legend: 'A CORK . HALFE . PENNY'. (sic).
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Counter commemorating Admiral César, Duc de Vendôme (1594-1665) and the defeat of the Spanish fleet, 1656. Counter commemorating Admiral César, Duc de Vendôme (1594-1665) and the defeat of the Spanish fleet, 1656. Obverse: Bust o
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Counter commemorating the victory off the Dardanelles, 1657. Counter commemorating the victory off the Dardanelles, 1657. Obverse: St Mark seated (left), handing the sacred flag to the Doge kneeling (right). Legend: 'S . M . VEN . BERTVCCIVS . VALER
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De Carybsche eylanden van de Barbados tot de bocht van Mexico. Bound sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:7 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Border graduated for latitude. Bar scales in Dutch and Spanish miles, English and French miles [actually leagues]. Additio
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De Vlaamsche en Canarische Eylanden. Bound sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:5 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 270 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in Dutch and Spanish miles, English and French miles [actually leagues]. Additional
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Distant view of Wieringen. The unsigned drawing shows two views of Wieringen from the water with various vessels in front of the coastal profile. Above is a distant view with a beacon on the left, a church in the middle and a village (Wieringe) on the rig
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Galileo Galilei Linceo Filosafo E Matematico del Ser. mo Gran Duca di Tosca. Above Galileo the two putti illustrate two aspects of astronomy. The putto on the left holds a hinged rule with a quadrant arc, similar to a device invented by Galileo as a mathe
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Nieuwe Carybsche pascaart. The Carybes Islands newly setforth and amendid. Bound sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:2 400 00 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 180 degrees. Border graduated for latitude. Bar scales in Dutch miles, Spanish leagues, and English an
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Nieuwe pascaart. Bound sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:5 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 42 degrees. Borders obliquely graduated for latitude. Bar scales in Dutch and Spanish miles, English and French miles [actually leagues]. Additional Places: No
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Oost Zee. Bound sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:1 500 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Lacks graduation. Bar scales in Dutch and Spanish miles, English and French miles [actually leagues]. Additional Places: Baltic. Contents Note: Contains an inset continuation
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Pascaart van Guinea van Capo Verde tot Capo de Bon Esperance. Bound sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:8 500 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: Border graduated for latitude. Bar scale in Dutch miles. A chart bound in Jacob Colom's 'Atlas of werelts-water-d
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Pascaarte van de Noord Zee. Bound sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:2 800 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 90 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in Dutch and Spanish miles, and English and French miles [actually leagues]. Additional Place
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Pascaarte van Hispangien van de noord zyde van Yrlandt tot de Straet. Bound sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:3 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 270 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in Dutch and Spanish miles, English and French mil
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Pascaerte van Brazil en Nieu Nederlandt van Cuorvo en Flores tot de Barbados nu eerst uytgegeven. Bound sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:11 200 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 270 degrees. Border graduated for latitude. Bar scales in Dutch and Spanish m
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Poem 'make use of time comming: one: for that is perished: which is gone.'. Includes watercolour of presumably old father time with an hourglass on his head, a scythe and with angel wings. Also is a hand painted on the lefthandside with quill pe
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Portrait of a Dutch two-decker. Viewed from the port bow with the foot of the fore course and of the mizzen indicated. There is a boat astern. On the beakhead bulkhead, there is an elaborate arems between two doorways. The vessel is not the ‘Bredero
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Portrait of the 'Asperen'. Portrait of the ‘Asperen’, viewed from the starboard quarter. She was built in 1656; 36 guns, she was wrecked in 1689. The arms of Asperen are on the tafferel, with lion supporters, quarterly 1 and 4, three
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[Mediterranean Sea]. Two sheets joined. Col. ms. Medium: Vellum, with neck, attached by a strip of vellum to a turned boxwood roller 25cm long. Physical description Note: The boxwood roller contains an (empty) recepticle for a compass. Scale: [ca. 1:11 50
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'The Maner of the Marreners Sea Compass or the Merridianes of the World.'. Watercolour image of a compass. With image of a ship at the centre.
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