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On astronomical navigation View picture(s) 1 ALCALA-GALIANO, D. Dionisio. Memoria sobre las observaciones de latitud y longitud en el mar, por d. Dionisio Alcala-Galiano, capitan de navio de la Real Armada. (Madrid), Imprenta de la Viudad de D. Joachin Ibarra, 1796. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with red morocco title-label, gilt outside dentelles, marbled endpapers, yellow edges. With 7 folding engraved plates with tables. (2), 87, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Astronomy  Navigation  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early plan to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific oceans; with the often lacking map View picture(s) 2 BASTIDE, Martin (de) la. Mémoire sur un Nouveau Passage de la Mer du Nord à la Mer du Sud. Paris, De l´Imprimerie de Didot fils aîné, 1791. 8vo. Original wrappers. With a large folding engraved map showing the greater part of Nicaragua, including the big lakes, parts of Costa Rica, the river systems (River St. Juan), mountain ranges, and the more important cities and volcanoes: 'Carte du Lac de Nicaragua et de la Rivière St. Juan sur laquelle on a marqué le passage proposé pour faire communiquer l'Ocean à la Mer du Sud', dated 1791. (4), 70 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America [Central]  Hydraulics  Navigation  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fine uncut copy with coloured maps and aquatint profiles View picture(s) 3 BOUGARD, René and John Thomas SERRES. The little sea torch: or, true guide for coasting pilots: ... London, J. Debrett for the "author" [Serres], G. & W. Nicol, et al. [printed by T. Rickaby], 1801. Large folio (47 x 30 cm). Contemporary boards, blue-grey paper sides. With the early 20th-century heraldic bookplate of Moncure Biddle by W. & A. Mussett. With 20 numbered aquatint plates containing 137 coastal profiles, and 12 partly numbered engraved plates containing 24 maps of port cities, harbours, islands and the Strait of Gibraltar. All coastal profiles and maps beautifully and subtly coloured by a contemporary hand. VI, 144, [5] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Colour Platebooks  Maritime History  Navigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In honour of the Dutch national naval hero View picture(s) 4 BRANDT, Gerard. Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter, Hertog, Ridder, &c. L. Admiraal Generaal van Hollandt en Westvriesland. Amsterdam, Wolfgang, Waasberge, Boom, van Someren & Goethals, 1687. Folio. Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed & gilt, blue edges. Title, full-page portrait of Michiel de Ruyter, 7 double-page plates with sea-battles and De Ruyter's funeral procession by Daniel Stoopendaal, full-page plate by J. Mulder of De Ruyter's tomb, all engraved. [8], 1063, [23] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Amsterdam  Biography  Low Countries  Maritime History  Navigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Advantage of steam vessels over sailing ships View picture(s) 5 CAMPAIGNAC, Antoine Bernard. De l'état actuel de la navigation par la vapeur et des améliorations dont les navires et appareils a vapeur marins sont susceptibles; suivi de notes explicatives, tableaux, projets, etc. Paris, 1842. 4to. Contemporary green half calf, spine gilt (slightly worn). With 5 large folded plates and a folded table. 19, 355 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Navigation  Ships & Shipbuilding  Technology  Transport  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Columbus or Vespucci: who discovered America? View picture(s) 6 CANOVAI, Le Père Stanislao. Elogio d'Amerigo Vespucci che ha riportato il premio della nobile Accademia Etrusca di Cortona nel dì 15. Ottobre dell'anno 1788. Con una dissertazione giustificativa di questo celebre navigatore, del P. Stanislao Canovai. Terza editione. Con illustrazioni ed aggiunte, e con una seconda dissertazione sulle vicende delle longitudini geografische. N.p.(Modena) n.pr., 1790. 4to. Contemporary boards, handwritten title-label on spine. Woodcut vignette on title, sm. elegant woodcut initials. (2), III-XVII, 39; 55; 64 pp. (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Americana  Discovery & Exploration  Italy  Navigation  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Learning the principles of navigation View picture(s) 7 CLEEFF, J. van. Catechismus der zeevaartkunde, of vragen en oefeningen over het beschouwende en werkdadige der stuurmanskunst. Tweede verbeterde en met antwoorden vermeerderde uitgaaf. Groningen, M. Smit, 1846. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. With woodcut vignette on title-page. [1-2], 12, [2], [3-5], 6-115, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Navigation  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare work on sundials View picture(s) 8 COETS, Henrik. Horologiographia plana. Seu nova & perspicua in superficiebus planis omnia genera horologiorum describendi methodus. Leyden, Jacob Moukée, 1689. 4to. 18th-century blue-grey wrappers. With woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 20 engraved plates with diagrams. [12], 87, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Navigation  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to become a good sailor View picture(s) 9 COMTE, Pieter le. Praktikale zeevaartkunde en theoretische kennis voor handel en scheepvaart. Amsterdam, widow of Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1842. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to (27 x 25 cm). Modern polished brown calf, raised spine with black title label. Text part with numerous tables in text; the plates part with 121 numbered engraved plates (including LIII A), showing 684 numbered illustrations. VIII, 16, 313. [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Manuals  Navigation  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The ocean and her rulers View picture(s) 10 ELWES, Alfred. De zee en hare beheerschers, of beknopte geschiedenis der voornaamste zeemogendheden uit vroegeren en lateren tijd. Naar het Engelsch voor Nederlanders bewerkt door A.A. Deenik. Sneek, Van Druten & Bleeker, 1861. 8vo. Contemporary red half morocco. XXV, 368 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  English  History  Maritime History  Navigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A French naval officer wins the gold medal of the Zeeland Society of Sciences View picture(s) 11 GARNIER DE SAINT-JULIEN. Mémoire en réponse a deux questions sur l'art nautique, proposées, en 1781, par la Société Zélandoise des Sciences, établie à Flessingue, pour le compte de celle de Batavia, qui a remporté le prix au jugement de la première, dans son assemblée générale tenue à Flessingue le 7 octobre 1783. Présenté à Mgr. le Maréchal de Castries, par l'auteur, le 2 avril 1784. Par M. Garnier de St. Julien, Capitaine en 1er au Corps-Royal du génie. Vlissingen, 1785. 8vo. Contemporary marbled wrappers, uncut. With 5 figures on 3 folding engraved plates printed on blue paper. 64 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Maritime History  Navigation  Ships & Shipbuilding  Zeeland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Tactics at sea by the 'Hero of the battle of the Doggersbank' View picture(s) 12 KINSBERGEN, Jan Hendrik van. Grondbeginselen der zee-tacticq. Uitgegeeven door C.A. Verhuell. Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1782. Large 4to (29.5 x 25 cm). Contemporary half calf with ribbed spine and red title label, sprinkled boards. With title in red and black, 23 folding engraved plates (with 51 illustrations). [14], 75, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Maritime History  Militaria  Navigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The famous circumnavigation by Jacques L'Hermite, with a description of Peru and Chile by Madriga and Spilbergen View picture(s) 13 L'HERMITE, Jacques de (Johan van WALBEECK). Journael van de Nassausche vloot, ofte beschrijvingh van de voyagie om den gantschen aert-kloot, gedaen met elf schepen... Amsterdam, Joost Hartgertsz., 1648. 4to. 18th-century marbled wrappers. With half-page woodcut with two ships on the title-page and a large double-page engraved plate. [2], 76 [ i.e 78] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  America [South]  Chile  Dutch  Navigation  Peru  Travel & Voyages  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two works on sundials issued together. The second work is by the first Dutch defender of Copernicus View picture(s) 14 LANSBERGIUS, Phillippus van. Beschrijvingh der vlacke sonne-wysers: in welcke de waere manier, om deselve op allerhande vlackten te betrecken, volgens wiskonstige regulen geleert, ende door een groot getal vertoog-schetzen aengewesen werdt. Nieuwelijx oversien ende met noodige byvoeging verrijckt, door Jacob Mogge. Middelburg, Wilhelmus Goeree, 1675. (Colophon: printed by Thomas Berry, for Zach Folio. Contemporary vellum. Title in red and black, large woodcuts with diagrams throughout, woodcut headpiece. (2), 54, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy  Astronomy & Cosmography  Navigation  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two important treatises on the attempt to determine the longitude at sea. Only two copies located of each work View picture(s) 15 LEY, Jan Hendrick Jarichs van der. 't Ghesicht des grooten zeevaerts. Franeker, Jan Lamrinck, 1619. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved author's portrait and over 25 woodcuts in text. [34], 125, [7] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Maritime History  Navigation  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare Tahitian imprint concerning astronomy View picture(s) 16 MAZIMANN, P. De l'utilité dont serait un cerlcle [sic] a pied parallactique pour l'observation des distances lunaires. Tahiti, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1858. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers. 14, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy  Astronomy & Cosmography  Maritime History  Navigation  Pacific  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Five treatises on astronomy and geography View picture(s) 17 METIUS, Adrianus. Astronomische ende geographische onderwysinghe. Inde welcke door 't gebruyck des aertschen globi, ofte gebulte caerten, midtsgaders t'astrolabium catholicum, ende platte pas-caerte de const der zeevaert verlicht, ende de schippers ende stuerluyden duydelyck ende cortelijck in haere voyagie onderricht worden. Beneffens twee nieuwe tafelen romborum, Uit de welcke veerdich ende met seer geringe moeyte de zeylagien naer de rondicheyt van de globe, sonder eenighe merckelijcke faulte, worden afgereeckent. Amsterdam, Franeker, Hendrick Lauwerensz., Ulderick Balck, 1632. 5 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With astronomical or geographical woodcut figures on 5 titles, and numerous astronomical and geographical woodcut illustrations, figures and tables in text. (20), 223 (=299) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Dutch  Geography  Navigation  Schoolbooks  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Navigating through centuries: the first naval history View picture(s) 18 MORISOT, Claude Barthélemy. Orbis Maritimi sive rerum in mari et littoribus gestarum generalis historia: in qua inventiones navium, earundem partes, armamenta. Instructiones Classium, navigationes, praelia maritima, arma, stratagemata, trophea, triumphi, naumachiae. Urbes & coloniae maritimae, periplus orbis antiqui, & novi. Magistratus, praefecturae & officia classica apud omnes Gentes. Leges navales, lustrationes classium, causae & genera ventorum, usus pixidis nauticae, histiodromice, marium diversi motus, aestusque, atque exundationes, aliaque omnia ad rem maritimam pertinentia. Opus unicâ centuriâ contentum, quae in duos libros divisa & partita est: Primus: res in mari, aut circa mare gestas continet, ab initio navigationum ad Costantini Magni obitum, cum descriptione littorum antiquis cosmographis cognitorum. Secundus: A Constantino Magno ad hanc usque diem res pelago, & in oris gestas complectitur, cum descriptione littorum antiquis incognitorum. Dijon, Petrus Palliot, 1643. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary half sheepskin with marbled boards. Engraved title by Spirinx, title printed in red and black, double-page plate of an ancient sea battle (Naumachia) and 44 engraved plates in text, including a full-page plate of an antique statue with six antique vessels attached to it, 23 maps, 9 plates of antique coins with representations of the sea, and 11 views of various (sailing) ships, including one propelled by oxen, all engraved by Palliot. (24), 725, (19) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Classical Antiquity  Europe  Geography  Maritime History  Medals  Navigation  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Essay on chronometry resulting from Roquemaurel's circumnavigation View picture(s) 19 MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Observations chronométriques faites pendant la campagne de circumnavigation de la corvette La Capricieuse, commandée par M. Roquemaurel, capitaine de vaisseau. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1855. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary grained red half roan. With 4 folding plates. VIII, 139, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Brazil  Navigation  Pacific  Science  Surveying  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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England's secret weapon in the battle of Trafalgar View picture(s) 20 POPHAM, Sir Home Riggs. Telegraphic signals; or marine vocabulary. London, printed for T. Egerton, 1809. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards. Engraved plate with flags and signals, thumb-indexed. (4), II, 4-113, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  England  Maritime History  Navigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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