Single sheet publication. Printed in two columns., Issued every two weeks?, No. 7, published in 1760: "Imports from the 30th of December 1759, to the 13th of January 1760.", Description based on: No. 7, published in 1760; caption title., Annotated on verso: Mr. Maister(?)., and For further information, consult with library staff.
Portrait of Lord Sheffield within an ornamental oval border
Alternative Title:
Lord Sheffield and the commerce of Great Britain
Description:
Title from item., Another [earlier?] state published with the imprint: John Str. Bristol, 1790., and Temporary local subject terms: Cap and staff of liberty -- Emblems: Commerce -- Literature: Sheffield on commerce -- British commerce -- Cargo.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sheffield, John Holroyd, Earl of, 1735-1821,
Subject (Topic):
Liberty cap, Commerce, Coats of arms, Shipping, and Sailing ships
Single sheet publication. Printed in two columns., Issued every two weeks?, No. 16, published in 1774: "Imports from the 16th of April, to the 30th of April, 1774.", Description based on: No. 16, published in 1774; caption title., and With a signature on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Maury's wind & current chart and Maury's wind and current chart
Description:
BEIN: 11cfk 1850A-4: Var. editions. 1 copy each of sheets 1-4 and sheets 5-8 mounted together on linen., Shows prevailing wind direction by month., Various eds. of some charts., Some sheets lack title and numberings., 1st and 2nd editions lack series designations A, B, C, etc., "The winds are denoted by small brushes, the head of the brush pointing to the direction whence the wind blows, the length of the brush shewing the comparative force.", "Eng. by Sherman & Smith N.Y."--Lower right margin on some sheets., "Series A.", Track chart, released as series A, a part of Maury's "Wind and current charts", series A-F. Covers the North Sea, the North Atlantic just west of the Hebrides, the Irish Sea, the English Channel, and the Bay of Biscay. The track charts were designed to illustrate the routes sailed by numerous Navy and merchant vessels. Directions of currents encountered and the force and direction of winds were included for each track. For complete discussion, see "The wind and current chart series produced by Matthew Fontaine Maury," by Marc I. Pinsel, in Navigation : Journal of the Institute of Navigation, v. 28, no. 2 (Summer, 1981), p. 123-137., Some sheets numbered individually in upper left margin, e.g.: 1, 2., On some sheets: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by M.F. Maury, in the Clerks office of the District Court of the southern district of New York., Accompanied by article from the magazine: Navigation : Journal of the Institute of Navigation. [16] leaves (p. 123-137) : photocopies ; 28 x 22 cm., Sheet no. 2 annotations in red ink., Copy imperfect: Sheets 1-2, 4 and torn and repaired along folid line. Sheet 2 covered in varnish. Sheets 1-3, 5-8 discoloration throughout, mounted on cloth backing., and Includes notes and printed track lines for numerous voyages of many different vessels on some sheets.
Publisher:
U.S. Hydrographical Office
Subject (Geographic):
North Atlantic Ocean. and North Atlantic Ocean
Subject (Topic):
Nautical charts, Winds, Ocean currents, Trade routes, Shipping, and Oceanography
Maury's wind & current chart and Maury's wind and current chart
Description:
BEIN: 11cfk 1850A-4: Var. editions. 1 copy each of sheets 1-4 and sheets 5-8 mounted together on linen., Shows prevailing wind direction by month., Various eds. of some charts., Some sheets lack title and numberings., 1st and 2nd editions lack series designations A, B, C, etc., "The winds are denoted by small brushes, the head of the brush pointing to the direction whence the wind blows, the length of the brush shewing the comparative force.", "Eng. by Sherman & Smith N.Y."--Lower right margin on some sheets., "Series A.", Track chart, released as series A, a part of Maury's "Wind and current charts", series A-F. Covers the North Sea, the North Atlantic just west of the Hebrides, the Irish Sea, the English Channel, and the Bay of Biscay. The track charts were designed to illustrate the routes sailed by numerous Navy and merchant vessels. Directions of currents encountered and the force and direction of winds were included for each track. For complete discussion, see "The wind and current chart series produced by Matthew Fontaine Maury," by Marc I. Pinsel, in Navigation : Journal of the Institute of Navigation, v. 28, no. 2 (Summer, 1981), p. 123-137., Some sheets numbered individually in upper left margin, e.g.: 1, 2., On some sheets: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by M.F. Maury, in the Clerks office of the District Court of the southern district of New York., Accompanied by article from the magazine: Navigation : Journal of the Institute of Navigation. [16] leaves (p. 123-137) : photocopies ; 28 x 22 cm., Sheet no. 2 annotations in red ink., Copy imperfect: Sheets 1-2, 4 and torn and repaired along folid line. Sheet 2 covered in varnish. Sheets 1-3, 5-8 discoloration throughout, mounted on cloth backing., and Includes notes and printed track lines for numerous voyages of many different vessels on some sheets.
Publisher:
U.S. Hydrographical Office
Subject (Geographic):
North Atlantic Ocean. and North Atlantic Ocean
Subject (Topic):
Nautical charts, Winds, Ocean currents, Trade routes, Shipping, and Oceanography
Wash drawing depicting several ships just offshore. Three men in a small boat row towards a ship that looks to have run aground; a man stands on the sandbar(?) beside the incapacitated ship with his arm raised
Alternative Title:
Gale
Description:
Title from local catalog card; alternative title from the print after which the drawing was made., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Drawn after a print entitled "A gale," engraved by P.C. Canot after a painting by van de Velde, which was published by John Boydell on 1 November 1773. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0609.1656., Date of production from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso: Charles Gore 1781 from a print after an original by Vandevelde in the possession of Mr. Pratt, engrav'd by Canot 1773., Formerly laid in at page 103 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Wash drawing depicting several ships just offshore. Three men in a small boat row towards a ship that looks to have run aground; a man stands on the sandbar(?) beside the incapacitated ship with his arm raised
Alternative Title:
Gale
Description:
Title from local catalog card; alternative title from the print after which the drawing was made., Signed by the artist in ink on verso., Drawn after a print entitled "A gale," engraved by P.C. Canot after a painting by van de Velde, which was published by John Boydell on 1 November 1773. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0609.1656., Date of production from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso: Charles Gore 1781 from a print after an original by Vandevelde in the possession of Mr. Pratt, engrav'd by Canot 1773., Formerly laid in at page 103 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.