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Documents concerning ship captains and shipping, 1762-circa 1809

Call Number:
OSB MSS 155
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
30
Abstract:
Manuscript documents and letters, illustrating the daily life and responsibilities of sea captains in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The collection includes documents relating to Captain Robert Poultney in Jamaica and letters on personal and naval...
Description:
Robert Poultney was the captain of the ship Loretta in Jamaica in 1762-1764.
Subject (Geographic):
Mediterranean Region and Brittany (France)
Subject (Name):
Poultney, Robert., Wainwright, John, Captain., Chiffonne (Ship), Great Britain. Royal Navy, and Loretta (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Officers, Sea life, Aids to navigation, Coasts, Navigation, Seafaring life, Ship captains, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Documents concerning ship captains and shipping, 1762-circa 1809

2.
The English pilot. describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones

Published / Created:
MDCCXXV [1725]
Call Number:
1978 Folio 10
Image Count:
26
Description:
BEIN 1978 Folio 10: Autograph of Nicholas Hampton, 1724[?]. Paper tab pasted to margin of p. 3.
Publisher:
Printed for Thomas Page, William and Fisher Mount, in Postern-Row on Tower-hill
Subject (Geographic):
Caribbean Area and Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Navigation and Pilot guides
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The English pilot. describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones ... : also a new description of Newfound-Land, New-England, New-York, east and west New-Jerzey, Dellewar-Bay, Virginia, Mary-Land, and Carolina, &c. ... : the whole being very much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions, not before published : by the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations. The fourth book

3.
The English pilot. describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones

Published / Created:
MDCCLX [1760]
Call Number:
1974 Folio 72
Image Count:
37
Description:
BEIN 1974 Folio 72: [4] p. of ms. sailing log ("Remarks &c. on the Bee transport, Southampton River"), dated Oct. 8, 1795-Nov. 10, 1795, bound in at end.
Publisher:
Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and son, on Tower-Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Caribbean Area and Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Navigation and Pilot guides
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The English pilot. describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones ... : also a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, east and west New-Jersey, Dellavar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. ... : the whole being very much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions : by the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations. The fourth book

4.
The English pilot. describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones

Published / Created:
MDCCLIX [1759]
Call Number:
1973 Folio 114
Image Count:
29
Description:
BEIN 1973 Folio 114: Inscriptions of Nathaniel Sherburne, dated 1763.
Publisher:
Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and son, on Tower-Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Caribbean Area and Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Navigation and Pilot guides
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The English pilot. describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones ... : also a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, east and west New-Jersey, Dellavar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. ... : the whole being very much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions : by the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations. The fourth book

5.
The English pilot. describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones

Published / Created:
MDCCLXIII [1763]
Call Number:
1973 Folio 116
Image Count:
34
Description:
BEIN 1973 Folio 116: Imperfect: some p. stained, with some loss of text. Inscriptions on versos of some maps: Joseph Tomlinson.
Publisher:
Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page, on Tower-Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Caribbean Area and Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Navigation and Pilot guides
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The English pilot. describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones ... : also a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, east and west New-Jersey, Dellawar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. ... : the whole being very much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions : by the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations. The fourth book

6.
The English pilot. describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens

Published / Created:
1698.
Call Number:
1973 Folio 76
Image Count:
21
Description:
BEIN 1973 Folio 76: Imperfect: t.p. mutilated, with some loss of text; p. 3-6 wanting; some p. mutilated and repaired, with some loss of text. Ms. inscription at front: Luke James.
Publisher:
Printed for John Thornton, at the sign of the England, Scotland, and Ireland, in the Minories, and Richard Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Caribbean Area and Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Navigation and Pilot guides
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The English pilot. describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, islands, depths, rocks, shoals, sands, banks, and dangers from Hudsons-Bay to the river Amazones, with all the West-India navigation, and all the islands therein as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbes, and Bahama Islands : with a new description of New-found-land, New-England, New-York, Dellewar-Bay, Virginia, Mary-land and Carrolina, &c. : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another ... : by the information of divers navigators of our own and other nations. The fourth book

7.
The jewell of artes

Creator:
Waymouth, George
Published / Created:
1603-1604.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 565
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
1173
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of George Waymouth (fl. 1587-1611), The jewell of artes, an unfinished technical handbook of navigation, inventions, fortifications, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting of short textual parts and extremely numerous full-page tech...
Description:
About the author, a somewhat mysterious navigator, scholar and engineer, see Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, v. 51 (2004), pp. 777-778. He returned in 1602 from his unsuccesful expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, presented the King...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Waymouth, George.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Military art and science, and Navigation
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The jewell of artes