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1. The mariner's magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts : containing, the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler that resolves most mathematical conclusions : and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation ... with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places round the world ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation, in working a ship in all weathers and conditions at sea : a new way of surveying of land, by the mariners azimuth or amplitude compass ... : the art of gauging all sorts of vessels, and the measuring of timber, glass, board, stone, walls, cielings, and tylings : the art of gunnery ... astronomy, geometrical, instrumental, and by calculation : the art of dialling by a gnomonical scale ... : whereunto is annexed an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed relating to the customs and navigation : also a compen / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.

The mariner's magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts : containing, the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler that resolves most mathematical conclusions : and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation ... with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places round the world ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation, in working a ship in all weathers and conditions at sea : a new way of surveying of land, by the mariners azimuth or amplitude compass ... : the art of gauging all sorts of vessels, and the measuring of timber, glass, board, stone, walls, cielings, and tylings : the art of gunnery ... astronomy, geometrical, instrumental, and by calculation : the art of dialling by a gnomonical scale ... : whereunto is annexed an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed relating to the customs and navigation : also a compen / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.

Creator:: Sturmy, Samuel, 1633–1669
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: [34], 219 [i.e. 223], [7], 132, [6], 52, [52], 11, [3], 13 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : port, ill. ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A description of the windward passage, and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to, and from the island of Jamaica : also an account of the trade-winds, and of the variable winds and currents on the coasts thereabouts, at different seasons of the tear : illustrated with a chart of the coast of Florida, and of the islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller islands, shoals, rocks, and other remarkable things in the course of the navigation in the West-Indies : whereby is demonstrated, the precariousness of those voyages to the West-India merchants, and the impossibility of their homeward-bound ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's : the whole very necessary for the information of such as never were in those parts of the world : to which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies ...

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Creator:: Cowley, J. (John)
Physical Description:: 23, [5] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Trigonometrie, or, The doctrine of triangles : divided into two bookes : the first shewing the mensuration of right lined triangles : the second of sphericall, with grounds and demonstrations thereof : both performed by that late and excellent invention of logarithmes, after a more easie and compendious manner, than hath beene formerly taught : whereunto is annexed (chiefly for the use of seamen), a treatise of the application thereof in the three principall kindes of sailing, with certaine necessary tables used in navigation / by Richard Norvvood ...

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Creator:: Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675
Date:: 1631
Physical Description:: 8, 129, [180] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. L'art de batir les vaisseaux, et d'en perfectionner la construction : de les garnir de leurs apparaux, les mettre en funin, les manoeuvrer, &c avec la coupe d'un vaisseau du premier rang, les devis de plusieurs fortes de vaisseaux, les outils & machines des ateliers de construction, les instrumens de mathematique servans à la navigation, leurs descriptions & figures; diverses listes & tables concernant la construction, l'equipment, &c. Outre, Les pavillons de divers etats, le tout tiré des meilleurs auteurs hollandois, comme Witsen, van Eyk, Allard, &c.

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Date:: MDCCXIX [1719]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Afbeelding van alle de generale zeinen, die gedaan en geobserveerd werden in 'slands vloot, zoo in het zeilen en ankeren by daag en nagt, als ten tyde van gevegt : met de beteekenis van ieder signaal, en aanwyzing der plaatszen daar dezelve in de origineele Hollandsze en Engelsze zein-boeken te vinden zyn : als meede een register van alle de instructien en waarschouwingen daar toe behoorende : te zamen gesteld, en in 't ligt gebragt, to gemak en dienst van 's lands officieren ter zee / door N. Govertsz, schryver in 's lands-dienst ter zee.

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Creator:: Govertsz, N
Date:: 1746
Physical Description:: [176] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Arcano del mare / di D. Ruberto Dudleo duca di Nortumbria, e conte di Waruich : diuiso in libri sei ...

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Creator:: Dudley, Robert, Sir, 1574–1649
Date:: MDCLXI [1661]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 57 x 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The Atlantic pilot.

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Creator:: De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717–ca. 1799
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: viii, 25, [1] p., [4] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The rutters of the sea: the sailing directions of Pierre Garcie; a study of the first English and French printed sailing directions, with facsimile reproductions, by D.W. Waters.

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Creator:: Garcie, Pierre, called Ferrande, ca. 1435–ca. 1520
Date:: 1967
Physical Description:: xv, 478 p. illus. 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library