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• Ships -- Early works to 1800
• Great Britain -- Early works to 1800

• A proclamation appointing skippers to give up lists of their passengers: (Edinburgh, : Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson ..., Anno Dom 1698), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III) and King of England William III (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• A true description of His Majesties royall ship, built this yeare 1637. at Wooll-witch in Kent To the great glory of our English nation, and not paraleld in the whole Christian world. Published by authoritie. (London : Printed by Iohn Okes, for Iohn Aston, and are to bee sold at his shop in Cat-eaten streete at the signe of the Buls-head, Anno 1637), by Thomas Heywood (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A copy of Monsieur Peire's certificate, sent by him to Captain Desborow; concerning Monsieur Ponti's five ships appearing off St. John's port in Newfoundland, translated into English from the original, which is ready to be produced. ([S.l. : s.n., 1698]), by Monsieur Peire (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons humbly offered for continuing the right of foreign-built ships, now belonging to English owners, to load at and from any of the plantations for England directly ([London? : s.n., 1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the owners of ships concerned in the coal-trade Humbly offered to the consideration of the honourable the Commons in Parliament assembled. ([London : s.n., 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Architectura universalis, das ist, von Kriegs, Statt- und Wasser Gebäwen (Durch Johann Sebastian Medern, bestellten Buchtruckern daselbsten, 1635), by Joseph Furttenbach and Matthäus Rembold (page images at HathiTrust)

• A true relation how eighteen men were casta way [sic] at sea six of which perished in the ship, and the other twelve got into the boat, and lived at sea six weeks in it : with the great hardships they underwent, and how miraculously they were preserved / written by Philip Hanger ... (London : Printed for Charles Harper ..., 1675), by Philip Hanger (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sad nevvs from the seas being a true relation of the losse of that good ship called the Merchant Royall which was cast away ten leagues from the lands end on Thursday night being the 23 of Septemb. last, 1641 ([London? : s.n.], 1641) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Art de la corderie perfectionné (De l'Imprimerie royale, 1747), by M. Duhamel du Monceau, Madeleine-Françoise Basseporte, and Pierre Soubeyran (page images at HathiTrust)

• Élémens de l'architecture navale (A Paris : Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, Imprimeur-Libraire du Roi pour l'Artillerie & le Génie, M.DCC.LVIII., 1758), by M. Duhamel du Monceau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire generale de la marine, : contenant son origine chez tous les peuples du monde, ses progrès, son état actuel, & les expéditions maritimes anciennes et modernes. (Chez Pierre Prault ... :, 1744), by Jean-Baptiste Torchet de Boismêlé, Claude Etienne Bourdot de Richebourg, Théodore de Blois, and France (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some account of the institution, plan, and present state, of the Society for the improvement of naval architecture: with the premiums offered by the society, list of members, and the rules and orders of the society. To which are annexed some papers on subjects of naval architecture received by the committee. (London, 1792), by London Society for the improvement of naval architecture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examen maritime théorique et pratique. (Firman Didot, 1792), by Jorge Juan and Pierre Lévêque (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de la construction des vaisseaux, avec des eclaircissemens & démonstrations touchant l'ouvrage intitulé: Architectura navalis mercatoria (Malassis [etc.], 1781), by F. H. af Chapman and Vial du Clairbois (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'architecture navale : contenant la maniere de construire les navires, galeres & chaloupes, & la definition de plusieurs autres especes de vaisseaux : avec les tables des longitudes, latitudes & marées ... (Chez J. de la Caille, 1677), by F. Dassié and Jean de La Caille (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grondbeginselen van den scheepsbouw, of Werkdadige verhandeling der scheepstimmerkunst (In 's Gravenhaage : By Ottho van Thol, Boekverkopers ; Te Amsterdam : By Gerrit de Groot, Boekverkopers, MDCCLIX., 1759), by M. Duhamel du Monceau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of naval architecture, or, A practical treatise on ship-building (London : Printed for A. Millar, MDCCLXIV., 1764), by M. Duhamel du Monceau and Mungo Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architectura navalis et regimen nauticum. (Graphic, 1972), by Nicolaas Witsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'architecture navale : contenant la maniere de construire les navires, galeres & chaloupes, & la definition de plusieurs autres especes de vaisseaux ... (Chez Jean de La Caille ..., 1677), by F. Dassié (page images at HathiTrust)
• An history of marine architecture : Including an enlarged and progressive view of the nautical regulations and naval history, both civil and military, of all nations, especially of Great Britain : derived chiefly from original manuscripts, as well in private collections as in the great public repositories : and deduced from the earliest period to the present time (R. Faulder ..., 1800), by John Charnock, Robert Faulder, J. Nichols and Son, and Bye and Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examen maritime, théorique et pratique (A Nantes : Chez l'Auteur ; Chez Augustin-Jean Malassis, Imprimeur-Libraire ; Chez Despilly, Libraire, M.DCC.LXXXIII., 1783), by Jorge Juan, Antoine-Joseph Gaitte, and Pierre Lévêque (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recherches sur la manière de suppléer a l'action du vent sur les grands vaisseaux : soit en y appliquant les rames, soit en y employant quelqu'autre moyen que ce puisse être : fondées sur une nouvelle théorie de l'économie, des forces et des effets (Bachelier, 1810), by Daniel Bernoulli, Mathon de la Cour (Jacques), Leonhard Euler, and Académie des Sciences (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Generall sailing-orders according to which masters as have a mind to saile are to ruled by. (Rotterdam, : by Isaac van Lochem, bookseller in the Milstreete, by order of Their Lordships, the Lords of the Admirality upon the Maze., [1692?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• De la manœuvre des vaisseaux, ou Traité de méchanique et de dynamique : dans lequel on réduit a des solutions très-simples les problêmes de marine les plus difficiles, qui ont pour object le mouvement du navire (Chez H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, rue S. Jacques, à S. Thomas d'Aquin, 1757), by M. Bouguer (page images at HathiTrust)
• James, Duke of York and Albany, Earl of Ulster, Lord High Admiral of England, Scotland, & Ireland, Constable of Dover-castle, Lord Warden of the Cinque ports, and governor of Portsmouth, &c. Instructions for the better ordering his Majesties fleet in sayling [sic]. ([London : s.n., 1660]), by King of England James II (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Instructions made by the Right Honourable Edward Russel, admiral, in the year 1691. For the better ordering the fleet in sailing by day and night and in fighting. ([London : s.n., 1691]), by Edward Russell Orford (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Generall sailing-orders according to which masters as have a mind to saile are to ruled by. (Rotterdam, : by Isaac van Lochem, bookseller in the Milstreete, by order of Their Lordships, the Lords of the Admirality upon the Maze., [1692?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Le manoeuvrier, ou Essai sur la théorie et la pratique des mouvemens du navire et des évolutions navales. (chez Desaint ... , 1769), by Jacques Bourdé de Villehuet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recherches sur la manière de suppléer a l'action du vent sur les grands vaisseaux : soit en y appliquant les rames, soit en y employant quelqu'autre moyen que ce puisse être : fondées sur une nouvelle théorie de l'économie, des forces et des effets (Bachelier, 1810), by Daniel Bernoulli, Mathon de la Cour (Jacques), Leonhard Euler, and Académie des Sciences (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Navigation improv'd: or, The art of rowing ships of all rates, in calms, with a more easy, swift, and steady motion, than oars can. Also, a description of the engine that performs it; and the author's answer to all Mr. Dummer's objections that have been made against it ... By Tho. Savery, gent. (London,: Printed and sold by James Moxon, at the Atlas in Warwick-lane, 1698), by Thomas Savery (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Teoria compita della costruzione e del maneggio de' bastimenti : ridotta ad uso di quelli che s'applicano alla navigazione (Nella stamperia Penada, 1776), by Leonhard Euler and Simone Stratico (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théorie complete de la construction et de la manœuvre des vaisseaux : mise à la portée de ceux qui s'appliquent à la navigation (C.A. Jombert, 1776), by Leonhard Euler and Anders Johan Lexell (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'architecture navale : contenant la maniere de construire les navires, galeres & chaloupes, & la definition de plusieurs autres especes de vaisseaux : avec les tables des longitudes, latitudes & marées ... (Chez J. de la Caille, 1677), by F. Dassié and Jean de La Caille (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grondbeginselen van den scheepsbouw, of Werkdadige verhandeling der scheepstimmerkunst (In 's Gravenhaage : By Ottho van Thol, Boekverkopers ; Te Amsterdam : By Gerrit de Groot, Boekverkopers, MDCCLIX., 1759), by M. Duhamel du Monceau (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Art de batir les vaisseaux et d'en perfectionner la construction ... outre les pavillons de divers états, le tout tiré des meilleurs auteurs Hollandois, comme Witsen, van Eyk, Allard, &c. Amsterdam, D. Mortier, 1719. (Edindustria, 1959) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aeloude en hedendaegsche scheeps-bouw en bestier : waer in wijtloopigh wert verhandelt, de wijze van scheeps-timmeren, by Grieken en Romeynen : scheeps-oeffeningen, strijden, tucht, straffe, wetten en gewoonten : beneffens evenmatige grootheden van schepen onses tijts, ontleet in alle hare deelen : verschil van bouwen tusschen uitheemschen en onzen landaert : indisch vaertuygh : galey-bouw : hedendaegsche scheeps-plichten : verrijckt met een reex verklaerde zee-mans spreeck-woorden en benamingen : doorgaens verciert met vele kopere platen (By Casparus Commelijn, Broer en Jan Appelaer, Boeck-verkoopers, 1671), by Nicolaas Witsen and Romeyn de Hooghe (page images at HathiTrust)
• De nederlandsche scheeps-bouw-konst open gestelt : vertoonende naar wat regel, of evenredenheyd, in Nederland meest alle scheepen werden gebouwd : mitsgaders masten, zeylen, ankers, en touwen, enz. daar aan gepast : soo suit de schriften van ouder, als jonger bouw-meesters, als ook by eygen ondervindinge, tot nut van alle jonge bouw-meesters en knechten, als ook uitreeders en liefhebbers van scheepen (Gedrukt by Andries Voorstad tot Delft voor Jan ten Hoorn, 1697), by Cornelis van Eyk and Jan Luiken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instruction élémentaire et raisonnée sur la construction- pratique des vaisseaux : en forme de dictionnaire (Omega c/o Hubert Berti, 1900), by Duranti de Lironcourt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hydrographie : contenant la theorie et la pratiqve de tovtes les parties de la navigation (Chez Iean Dv Pvis ... , 1667), by Georges Fournier and Alexander Lindsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art des armes navales, ou, Traité des évolutions navales : qui contient des regles utiles aux officiers généraux, & particuliers d'une armée navale; avec des exemples tirez de ce qui s'est passé de plus considérable sur la mer depuis cinquante ans (Chez Anisson, & Posuel, 1697), by Paul Hoste, Evelyn family, Frederick Evelyn, François Cars, Mathieu Ogier, Thomas Blanchet, and Mathieu Boulanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat ship-wright plainly and demonstratively teaching the proportions used by experienced ship-wrights according to their custome of building, both geometrically and arithmetically performed : to which by Edmund Bushnell, ship-wright. (London : Printed by W. Leybourn for George Hurlock, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1664), by Edmund Bushnell (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The case of the owners of the ship Redbridge ([London : s.n., 1694]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the Queene. The Queenes Majestie upon consyderations very great, and presently importyng the mayntenaunce of her people in peace with her neyghbours. (Imprinted at London : By Richarde Iugge [i.e. B. Norton and J. Bill], printer to the Queenes Maiestie, [ca. 1618]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The complaint of Rob. Oxwick, and company, ovvners of the ship endeavour: and of Ri. Baker, and company, proprietors of the said ships lading, both amounts to 16587. l. against the French, of their proceedings, want of justice, and satisfaction. ([London : s.n., 1658?]), by Robert Oxwick (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons, humbly offered to the honourable house of commons, for bringing in a bill, for registring all bills of sale of ships, and vessels of burden, in a general register book, with some objections answered. ([London : s.n., 1700?]), by Simon Baxter (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the petitioners complaining of the breach of the Act of Navigation, 12. Car. 2. ([London? : s.n., 1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case os [sic] the owners of the ship Averilla, burthen three hundred and fifty tons. ([London : s.n., 1696?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• L'architecture navale : contenant la maniere de construire les navires, galeres & chaloupes, & la definition de plusieurs autres especes de vaisseaux ... (Chez Jean de La Caille ..., 1677), by F. Dassié (page images at HathiTrust)

• Del conduttore elettrico posto nel campanile di S. Marco in Venezia : memoria, in cui occasionalmente si ragiona dei conduttori che possono applicarsi ai vascelli, ai magazzini da polvere, ed altri edifizj. (Per li figliuoli del qu. Z. Antonio Pinelli ..., 1776., 1776), by Giuseppe Toaldo and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)

• The cargo's of seven East-India ships. Viz. The loyal merchant from Surrat. July 1664 ... ([S.l.: s.n., 1664]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• By his Highnes Councill in Scotland, for the government thereof. It having pleased the Lord to visit our brethren and neighbors of the United Providences with the pestilence ... (Edinburgh : Printed by Christopher Higgins, in Harts-Close, over against the Trone-Church, 1655), by Scotland. Privy Council (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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