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'Deptford' (1732). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, the sheer lines, and logitudinal half-breadth for 'Deptford' (1732), a 60-gun Third Rate, later Fourth Rate, two decker, as taken off at Portsmouth
1734
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. Backstaff horizon vane
1734
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. Backstaff shadow vane
1734
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. Sight vane for the backstaff
1734
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. The backstaff is made from a lignum vitae frame with boxwood arcs, brass-capped rivets, and a boxwood sight vane, horizon vane and shadow vane, the latter with a Flamsteed lens, which allows the instrument to be used when the sun is obscured by cloud by
1734
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A new mapp of the island of Bombay and Sallset by Saml Thornton Hydrographer to ye Honoble East India Company; at ye signe of ye Plat in ye Minories London.. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:100 000]. Cartographic Note: North at 270 degrees. Ungraduated
1734; circa 1685
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A Sea Otter. This engraving is after a drawing by John Webber from John Hawkesworth's account (1773) of the voyages of Captain James Cook, Joseph Banks and Captain John Byron. Captain James Cook (1728-1779) made three separate voyages to the Pacifi
1778
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A Yacht close-hauled in the breeze. Technique includes engraving.; Plate No.2.
1734
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Badge of the Boatmen's Guild of Amsterdam. Badge of the Boatmen's Guild of Amsterdam. An engraved plate. Obverse: Port broadside view of a boat under sail with a lee board, one man in the stern. Similar to preceding, but boat larger. Reverse: I
1734
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Capt Bartholomew Roberts (c.1682 - 1722). This print of the pirate Bartholomew Roberts first appeared as page 228 (and is so inscribed) in the 1734 first folio edition of Charles Johnson's 'A general history of the lives and adventures of the mo
1734
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Counter commemorating the fitting out of a squadron under Admiral René Duguay-Trouin (1673-1736). Counter commemorating the fitting out of a squadron under Admiral René Duguay-Trouin (1673-1736). Obverse: Bust of Admiral Louis Alexandre de
1734
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Elizabeth; Warship; Third rate; 70 guns. Scale: 1:48. A block model of the ‘Elizabeth’ (1737), a 70-gun, two-decker ship of the line. The ‘Elizabeth’ was built to the 1733 Establishment. These vessels were built originally as 70s,
1734
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P. Rapin de Thoyras. Print
1734
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Portable reflector telescope. This is a portable Gregorian (reflector) telescope. It is signed JAMES SHORT EDINBURGH 1734.3.27 referring to the date it was made. Telescope: The barrel is made of brass and painted black. It is a Gregorian of 76.2mm (3
1734
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Prince (1750); Triton (1745) [alternative spelling: Tryton]. Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the inboard profile and superimposed body plan sections for Prince (1750), a 90-gun Second Rate, three-decker. The plan also shows the inboard profile and superimposed
Between 1742-1758
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Severn (1739). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed for rebuilding the Severn (1695), and approved for the Severn (1739), a 1733 Establishment 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker. A copy of this plan wa
Circa June 1734
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The North West Prospect of the City of Bristol (with key). Print from the panoramic series of ‘Cities, Sea-ports, and Capital Towns’ of England and Wales that the Buck brothers began from 1728. Samuel, joined by Nathaniel from 1724, spent his
1734
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To Her most Excellent Maj.ty Queen Caroline, this Perspective View of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich is humbly inscribed.... The Guidhall Collage website dates this to 1734, which is not improbable although 1735 is the date of installation of the Rysbrac
1734
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'Alderney' (1734); 'Furnace' (1740); 'Lightning' (1740); 'Carcass' (1740); 'Thunder' (1740); 'Basilisk' (1740); 'Blast' (1740); 'Firedrake' (1742). Scale: 1:48. A plan showin
26 March 1734
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Saint Albans. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board with some decoration detail, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for Saint Albans (1737), a 1733 Establishment 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker. Signed by Pe
16 November 1734
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