Author: Christie, Manson & Woods (London).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Auction catalogue, books of Viscount Hampden, 20 to 21 October 1938
Author: Christie, Manson & Woods (London).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Auction catalogue, books of Hampden ... [et al.], 20 to 22 July 1899
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Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London).Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Auction catalogue, books of Viscount Maugham ... [et al.], 20 to 21 November 1958
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Author: Hodgson & Co. (London).Auction catalogue, books of Ralph J. Dickinson ... [et al.], 19 to 21 October 1938
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Author: Hodgson & Co. (London).Auction catalogue, books of Viscount Kemsley, 18 to 20 March 1969
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London).Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club
Author: Herbert John Gladstone Gladstone (Viscount.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780952907503
Category : Glees, catches, rounds, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Royal Mistresses and Bastards
Author: Anthony J. CampPublisher:
ISBN: 9780950330822
Category : Favorites, Royal
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Changing English Countryside, 1400-1700
Author: Leonard CantorPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351730193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The period covered by this book, first published in 1987, was an important one for the rural landscape in England. The author describes and analyses the evolution of the countryside during the years which witnessed the gradual disappearance of the medieval landscape and the introduction of new farming methods and industrial techniques, thus laying the foundation for the radical changes that were to transform the English countryside in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The main features of the countryside are dealt with fully and examples are given of their remains which can still be identified in the landscape today.
Money of Pre-federal America
Author: John M. KleebergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A Buccaneer's Atlas
Author: Basil RingrosePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520054103
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the west coast of the Americas captured a Spanish ship, from which they obtained a derrotero, or book of charts and sailing directions. When they arrived back in England, the Spanish ambassador demanded that the buccaneers be brought to trial. The derrotero was ordered to be brought to King Charles II, who apparently appreciated its great intelligence value. The buccaneers were acquitted, to the chagrin of the king of Spain, who had the English ambassador expelled from the court at Madrid on a seemingly trumped-up charge. The derrotero was subsequently translated, and one of the buccaneers, Basil Ringrose, added a text to the compilation and information to the Spanish charts. The resulting atlas, consisting of 106 pages of charts and 106 pages of text, is published in full for the first time in this volume. Covering the coast from California to Tierra del Fuego, the Galapagos, and Juan Fernandes, Basil Ringrose's south sea waggoner is a rich source of geographical information, with observations on navigational, physical, biological, and cultural features as well as on ethnography, customs, and folklore. After almost exactly three hundred years, this secret atlas is now made available to libraries and individuals. The editors have provided an extensive introduction on historical, geographical, and navigational aspects of the atlas, as well as annotations to the charts and text, and they have plotted the coverage of the charts on modern map bases. On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the west coast of the Americas captured a Spanish ship, from which they obtained a derrotero, or book of charts and sailing directions. When they arrived back in England, the Spanish ambassador demanded that the buccaneers be brought to trial. The derrotero was ordered to be brought to King Charles II, who apparently appreciated its great intelligence value. The buccaneers were acquitted, to the chagrin of the king of Spain, who had the English ambassador expelled from the court at Madrid on a seemingly trumped-up charge. The derrotero was subsequently translated, and one of the buccaneers, Basil Ringrose, added a text to the compilation and information to the Spanish charts. The resulting atlas, consisting of 106 pages of charts and 106 pages of text, is published in full for the first time in this volume. Covering the coast from California to Tierra del Fuego, the Galapagos, and Juan Fernandes, Basil Ringrose's south sea waggoner is a rich source of geographical information, with observations on navigational, physical, biological, and cultural features as well as on ethnography, customs, and folklore. After almost exactly three hundred years, this secret atlas is now made available to libraries and individuals. The editors have provided an extensive introduction on historical, geographical, and navigational aspects of the atlas, as well as annotations to the charts and text, and they have plotted the coverage of the charts on modern map bases.