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A coelestiall [sic] planisphere. Single engraved sheet, depicting the northern celestial hemisphere. Originally folded and bound with G200:2/3 and G200:3/2, now laid on a backing sheet. Text in the margins gives examples of the planisphere's uses: 1,
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A View of Falmouth Harbour, circa 1678. Danckerts travelled widely and his most important commission for King Charles II was to paint a series of 28 canvases depicting various palaces and fortified ports. This picture may have formed part of this series,
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An English Ship in Action with Barbary Vessels. An English ship, on the left, battles with a ‘Barbary’ ship and two galleys. Smoke fills the sky and the gunfire, which reflects in the sea, illuminates the sails of the ships and their flags. In
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Calm: HMS Royal James, a royal yacht and other shipping. A three-decker shown at anchor. She has a blue flag at the main signifying an admiral of the blue and a Union jack at the fore. In the right foreground is a royal yacht with an extra long pendant at
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Counter commemorating the state in danger, 1678. Counter commemorating the state in danger, 1678. Obverse: A fishing boat under sail in a rough sea, two shields above. Inscription: 'DOMINE SALVA NOS' (Lord save us). Reverse: Inscription, 'G
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Counter commemorating the state in danger, 1678. Counter commemorating the state in danger, 1678. Obverse: A fishing boat under sail in a rough sea. Inscription: 'DOMINE SALVA NOS' (Lord save us). Reverse: Inscription, 'DOMINE SALVA SERVOS
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Medal commemorating Admiral Count Wachtmeister (1641-1714). Medal commemorating Admiral Count Wachtmeister (1641-1714). Obverse: Bust of Admiral Wachtmeister with long hair in an embroidered robe (right). Legend: 'HANS . WACHT . = MEISTER . AM : GL
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Medal commemorating the capture of Stralsund, 1678. Medal commemorating the capture of Stralsund, 1678. Obverse: Bust of Frederick William, the Elector of Hanover, in a long wig, laureate, and armour embossed with a mask (right). Legend: 'FRID : WILH
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Portrait of the 'Happy Return'. A portrait, viewed from slightly before the starboard beam, of the English fourth-rate ship ‘Happy Return’, which was built in 1654 as the ‘Winsby’, 54 guns, renamed in 1660, and captured b
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Portrait of the 'Happy Return'. Portrait of the ‘Happy Return’, viewed from close under the port quarter, the side only lightly sketched. There are two rows of stern windows with a small royal arms between them. It is very freely but
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Portrait of the ‘Portland’, a 50-gun fourth-rate, built in 1653 and burnt in 1692.. The ‘Portland’ viewed from slightly before the starboard beam, with square decorated ports and, on the broadside, twelve guns on the gun deck, elev
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The Cleveland Yacht at sea in a fresh breeze. Oil painting (framed). Robinson, 'The Oil Paintings of the Willem van de Veldes', p. 989, no. 407. Related drawings are PAE5248, PAF6879, PAF6589. Coll: the late Michael Robinson
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The right ascensions and declinations of the principal fixed starrs in both hemisphears to ye year 1678. Single sheet, engraving. Only the northern celestial hemisphere, drawn on the plane of the ecliptic, is on this sheet. The star Cor Caroli (the heart
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The right ascensions and declinations of the principal fixed stars in both hemisphears to year 1678.. Printed star chart of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere dedicated to Jonas Moore. Engraved by James Clerk. At the foot of the sheet there is a contempora
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[Western Atlantic]. Single sheet. Coloured manuscript drawn on vellum, mounted on two hinged oak boards. This is the western half of a four-board plat. The chart contains a latitude scale and a distance scale in leagues.
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[Celestial southern hemisphere]. The chart is dedicated to King Charles II and the constellations include Robur Carolinum (King Charles' oak tree). The chart contains a key for six magnitudes of stars. There are diagrams in the four corners of the sh
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Commodore Charles Brown, 1678/9-1753. (Updated, April 2018). Brown is shown standing, three-quarter length, turned slightly to his left in a brown coat with a powdered wig falling behind his shoulders, against a rocky coastal background of sea, dark sky a
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