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. Half moon shaped cushion. Red with gold brocade.

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. Oar. Marked with number "10".
1731
National Maritime Museum

. Oar. Marked with number "11".
1731
National Maritime Museum

. Oar. Marked with number "8".
1731
National Maritime Museum

A correct chart of the coast of Portugal & Barbaria from C. Finisterra to C. Baydor with the Canarie Isles..Humbly dedicated to Robert Godschall of Weston. Scale: [ca.1:3 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 90 degrees. Compass rose & rhumb
1731
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A pocket map of the cities of London and Westminster and the suburbs thereof being a new and exact plan with the addition of the new buildings, churches etc to this present year 1731. Sold by Robt Hulton at the corner of Pall Mall St James. Engraved plan
1731
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Admiral Sir Charles Wager, 1666-1743. A half-length portrait to right, wearing a russet velvet coat with gold buttons and gold embroidered buttonholes, a breastplate and a fair full-bottomed wig. The portrait is in a painted oval and a flagship flying a v
1731
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Celestial clockwork globe. Celestial clockwork globe. Astronomical details on the sphere include a magnitude table within a cartouche, below Crater. The Milky Way is labelled, and 14 stars and four star groups are named. The 48 Ptolemaic constellations an
1731
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Celestial clockwork globe. Hour pointer from celestial clockwork globe. Astronomical details on the sphere include a magnitude table within a cartouche, below Crater. The Milky Way is labelled, and 14 stars and four star groups are named. The 48 Ptolemaic
1731
National Maritime Museum

Celestial pocket globe. Celestial pocket globe - case for the terrestrial pocket globe. Spherical case consists of two hinged hemispheres with two hook and eye clasps. It is lined with gores depicting celestial sphere. The projection of the celestial glob
1731
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Celestial pocket globe. Celestial pocket globe gores within the case.The celestial projection is geocentric but the constellations are seen from the back. The stars are represented by different symbols but there is no magnitude table. The Milky Way is lab
1731
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Counter commemorating Admiral Comte de Toulouse and the hope of employment for the Navy. Counter commemorating Admiral Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678-1737) and the hope of employment of the Navy. Obverse: Bust of the Admiral Comte de
1731
National Maritime Museum

James Berkeley Earl of Berkeley. Print
1731
National Maritime Museum

James Berkeley, Earl of Berkeley. Plate 16.
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National Maritime Museum

James Berkeley, Earl of Berkeley. Print
1731
National Maritime Museum

Medal commemorating the Second Treaty of Vienna, 1731. Medal commemorating the Second Treaty of Vienna, 1731. Obverse: Short bust of King George II in a long wig. Legend: 'GEORGIUS . II . D . G. MAG . BRIT . FR . ET HIB : REX . F . D .' Reverse:
1731
National Maritime Museum

Petrus Monamy. Navium et Prospectum marionorum Pictor: Vandeveldo Soli Secundus [Peter Monamy]. Text in Latin below image. It translates as 'Peter Monamy, painter of shipping and marine views; second only to van de Velde'. The artist of the orig
1731
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Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe. Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe. Geographical details on the terrestrial sphere show trade winds marked by hatched regions in the oceans between the tropics. In North America there is a label, 'Unknown P
1731
National Maritime Museum

Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe. Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe. The geographical details on the terrestrial sphere, astronomical details on the inside of the case, construction and cartography are the same as those of Cushee GLB0044, but t
1731
National Maritime Museum

Terrestrial pocket globe. Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe. The geographical details on the terrestrial sphere, astronomical details on the inside of the case, construction and cartography are the same as those of Cushee GLB0044, but the case hooks
1731
National Maritime Museum

Terrestrial pocket globe. Terrestrial pocket globe. Trade winds are marked by hatched regions in the oceans between the tropics. In North America, there is a label, 'Unknown Parts' and California is drawn as an island. Australia is represented a
1731
National Maritime Museum

Wolf (1731). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Wolf (1731), an 8-gun two-masted Sloop building at Deptford Dockyard. She was snow-rigged. A copy was sent to Deptford on 9 April 1
April 1731
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