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Geoghegan - Apparatus for Aerial Navigation, British Patent 11754 of 1910 — Edward Arthur Geoghegan and George Matthews Lindsay Moore-Irvine
American navigation : the political history of its rise and ruin and the proper means for its encouragement — Bates, William W. (William Wallace), 1827-1912
A chronology of inland navigation in Great Britain. Being a record of the dates of the principal works and events connected with inland navigation to the present time. Compiled from various sources ... — De Salis, Henry Rodolph, 1866-
A directory for the navigation of the Pacific Ocean; — Findlay, Alexander George, 1812-1875. [from old catalog]
Report of a Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of New-York, on canal navigation by steam. December, 1858 — New York Chamber of Commerce
The Undertakings of Mr. Henry Bond Senior, a Famous Teacher of the Art of Navigation in London, Concerning the Variation of the Variation of the Magnetical Compass and the Inclination of the Inclinatory Needle; as the Result and Conclusion of 38. Years Magnetical Study — Bond, Henry
Agreement between the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. and the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, dated June 28, 1887 — ['Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company', 'Central Railroad of New Jersey']
Treaty between the United States of America and the Independent State of the Congo--Amity, Commerce, and Navigation

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Geoghegan - Apparatus for Aerial Navigation, British Patent 11754 of 1910 — Edward Arthur Geoghegan and George Matthews Lindsay Moore-Irvine
American navigation : the political history of its rise and ruin and the proper means for its encouragement — Bates, William W. (William Wallace), 1827-1912
A chronology of inland navigation in Great Britain. Being a record of the dates of the principal works and events connected with inland navigation to the present time. Compiled from various sources ... — De Salis, Henry Rodolph, 1866-
A directory for the navigation of the Pacific Ocean; — Findlay, Alexander George, 1812-1875. [from old catalog]
Report of a Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of New-York, on canal navigation by steam. December, 1858 — New York Chamber of Commerce
The Undertakings of Mr. Henry Bond Senior, a Famous Teacher of the Art of Navigation in London, Concerning the Variation of the Variation of the Magnetical Compass and the Inclination of the Inclinatory Needle; as the Result and Conclusion of 38. Years Magnetical Study — Bond, Henry
Agreement between the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. and the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, dated June 28, 1887 — ['Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company', 'Central Railroad of New Jersey']
Treaty between the United States of America and the Independent State of the Congo--Amity, Commerce, and Navigation
A dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce and commercial navigation [microform] : illustrated with maps and plans — McCulloch, J. R. (John Ramsey), 1789-1864
Report of select committee on the report from the commissioners on the improvement of the Saint Lawrence navigation [microform] — Upper Canada. Commissioners for the Improvement of the Navigation on the River Saint Lawrence
Treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, between His Britannick Majesty and the United States of America [microform] : signed at London, the 19th of November, 1794 — ['Great Britain 1794 Nov. 19. Treaties, etc. United States, YYY', 'United States 1794 Nov. 19. Treaties, etc. Great Britain, YYY']
[Lettre] [microforme] : vous vous rappelez sans doute que j'ai été le premier à recontinuer la ligne de navigation entre Montréal et Chambly . — Pacaud, G.J
Recueil de voyages au nord [microforme] : contenant divers mémoires très-utiles au commerce & à la navigation — Bernard, J.-Frédéric (Jean-Frédéric), m. 1752
The Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay navigation [microform] : supplementary report — ['Clarke, Thomas Curtis, 1827-1901', 'Clarke, Thomas Curtis, 1827-1901. The Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay navigation, report']
Highlands of Ontario, Muskoka Lakes [microform] : Muskoka Navigation Company's guide book — Muskoka Navigation Co
A directory for the navigation of the North Pacific Ocean [microform] : with descriptions of its coasts, islands, etc., from Panama to Behring Strait and Japan ; its winds, currents, and passages — Findlay, Alexander George, 1812-1875
Thompson's coast pilot and sailing directions for the north-western lakes [microform] : from Ogdensburg to Buffalo, Chicago, Green Bay, Georgian Bay and Lake Superior, including all the river navigation, courses and distances on each lake, with directions for entering all the principal harbors thereon : also a description of lights and light-houses ... , harbors completed and in progress of construction ... and other valuable maritime suggestions ... — Thompson, Thomas S
A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, illustrated with Maps and Plans, New ed. with numerous corrections and improvements and a supplement — McCulloch, J. R.
Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the Province of Sind, for the year 1908-1909 — Sind (India, British). Customs Department
Air navigation for flight officers — Dixie, Albert Edward
De la mer et de la navigation maritime — Plocque, Alfred
Décret de la Convention nationale, du 26 juillet 1793, l'an second de la République françoise, qui autorise le citoyen Clavaux & société à ouvrir un canal de navigation pour joindre les riviéres d'Eure & de Loir — ['France. Convention nationale', 'Deforgues, François-Louis-Michel Chemin, 1759-1840', 'Gohier, Louis-Jérôme, 1746-1830', 'Imprimerie nationale (France), publisher']
A directory for the navigation of the North Pacific Ocean : with descriptions of its coasts, islands, etc., from Panama to Behring Strait, and Japan, its winds, currents, and passages — Findlay, Alexander G
Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the Presidency of Bombay, for the year 1894-95; prepared in the Office of Commissioner of Customs, Salt, Opium and Abkari, and Reporter General of External Commerce — Bombay. India. Bombay Presidency
The theory of navigation demonstrated: : and its rudiments clearly and plainly proved, from the first and most simple principles of the mathematicks, with all the rules and tables useful in the practice : to which is added, a new table of difference of longitude to every point, half point and quarter point of the compass; very useful for the ready and expeditious working of traverses upon the principles of Mercators sailing, whereby the difference of longitude answering to every single course and distance may be had by inspection. — Hodgson, James, 1672-1755
A digest of the decisions of the Treasury department relating to the tariff, navigation, &c., from 1872 to 1882, inclusive, with the tariff on imports into the United States and the free list, indexed, and the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty — ['United States. Dept. of the Treasury', 'United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Synopsis of the decisions of the Treasury Department on the construction of the tariff, navigation and other laws']
A treatise on practical seamanship; : with hints and remarks relating thereto: designed to contribute something towards fixing rules upon philosophical and rational principles; to make ships, and the management of them; and also navigation, in general, more perfect, and consequently less dangerous and destructive to health, lives, and property. — Hutchinson, William, 1715-1801
A treatise on navigation, and nautical astronomy : adapted to practice, and to the purposes of elementary instruction; with an extensive series of examples for exercise, and all the tables resquisite in nautical computations — Riddle, Edward, 1788-1854
A treatise on trigonometry, plane and spherical : with its application to navigation and surveying, nautical and practical astronomy and geodesy, with logarithmic, trigonometrical, and nautical tables for the use of schools and colleges. — Hackley, Charles William, 1809-1861
Elements of plane and spherical trigonometry : with their applications to mensuration, surveying, and navigation — Loomis, Elias, 1811-1889
Essai sur l'importance du commerce, de la navigation et de l'industrie, dans les provinces formant le royaume des Pays-Bas, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'en 1830 — Terbruggen, A. J. L., Baron Van den Bogaerde Van, 1787-1855
Essai sur la navigation aérienne : aérostation--aviation — Lapointe, Eugène Édouard, 1869-
An historical account of the rise, progress and present state of the canal navigation in Pennsylvania : with an appendix, containing, abstracts of the acts of the legislature since the year 1790, and their grants of money for improving roads and navigable waters throughout the state ; to which is annexed, "an explanatory map" — ['Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation', 'Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Navigation']
Early History of the Falls of Schuylkill, Manayunk, Schuylkill and Lehigh Navigation Companies ... — Charles Valerius Hagner
Annals of commerce, manufactures, fisheries, and navigation: with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them. Containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries, from the earliest accounts to the meeting of the Union Parliament in January, 1801; and comprehending the most valuable part of the late Mr. Anderson's history of commerce with a large appendix — Macpherson, David, 1746-1816
Aërial navigation; a popular treatise on the growth of air craft and on aëronautical meteorology — Zahm, Albert Francis, 1862-
History of Propellers and Steam Navigation: With Biographical Sketches of the Early Inventors — Robert MacFarlane
Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of British India, with Foreign Countries and of the Coasting Trade of the Several Presidencies and Provinces in the year ending 31st March 1879, Vol. I- Foreign Trade — India (British). Finance and Commerce Department
The light of navigation, ... 1620 — Blaeu, Willem Janszoon.
A compleat system of navigation: in two parts. 1750 — Atkinson James
The whole art of navigation;... 1686 — Newhouse, Daniel
A new account of the East Indies, being the observations and remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton, who spent his time there from the year 1688. to 1723. Trading and travelling, by sea and land, to most of the countries and islands of commerce and navigation, between the Cape of Good-hope, and the Island of Japon. ... 1727: Vol 1 — Hamilton, Alexander
A new catalogue of the best charts, pilots, and navigation books, 1800. Sold wholesale, retail, and for exportation, by Heather and Williams, at their sea-chart, map, and mathematical instrument warehouse, No. 157, Leadenhall-street, ... 1800 — Heather and Williams (Stationers).
A review of all that hath pass'd between the courts of Great Britain and Spain, relating to our trade and navigation from the year 1721, to the present convention; ... 1739 — Pulteney, William, Earl of Bath
A treatise on navigation and nautical astronomy, including the theory of compass deviations, prepared for use as a textbook at the U.S. Naval Academy — Muir, W. C. P. (William Carpenter Pendleton)
A treatise on the steam engine in its application to mines, mills, steam navigation, and railways — ['Bourne, John, ed', 'Artizan club (London, England)']
Guide des marins pendant la navigation nocturne, ou, Description générale des phares, fanaux ... — Phillippe Jean Coulier
Astronomia accurata; or The royal astronomer and navigator. Containing new improvements in astronomy, chronology, and navigation. Particularly new and correct solar and lunar tables; with precepts and examples of their use, according to old or new style ... The seaman's ready computer, or new and easy navigation .. — Heath, Robert, d. 1779
Memorial of the citizens of Cincinnati, to the Congress of the United States, relative to the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers — Cincinnati (Ohio). Citizens
Essai sur la navigation sous-marine — A. J. Castéra
Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the Presidency of Bombay (excluding Sind), for the year 1913-1914 — Bombay Presidency (India, British). Customs, Salt, Opium and Abkari Department
Treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America; by their President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, Nov. 19, 1794. 1795 — Great Britain.
Histoire du commerce et de la navigation à Bordeaux, principalement sous l'administration anglaise — Michel, Francisque, 1809-1887
A general history and collection of voyages and travels, arranged in systematic order: forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time — Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813. n 86841455
Dictionnaire moderne des termes de marine et de la navigation à vapeur par le ch.er Lemetheyer
Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the Presidency of Bombay (excluding Sind), for the year 1909-1910 — Bombay Presidency (India, British). Customs, Salt, Opium and Abkari Department
Financial Statement of the Trade and Navigation of Bombay Presidency — Bombay Presidency (India, British)
A treatise on ship-building and navigation. In three parts, wherein the theory, practice, and application of all the necessary instruments are perspicuously handled. With the construction and use of a new invented shipwright's sector ... Also tables of the sun's declination, of meridional parts ... To which is added by way of appendix, an English abridgment of another treatise on naval architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel .. — ['Murray, Mungo, d. 1770', 'Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782. Treatise on ship-building']
Traitez de paix et de commerce, navigation et marine, entre la France et les Etats Generaux des Provinces Unies des PaysBas. Conclu à Rysvvick le 21. septembre 1697 — Francia
Treatise on navigation and nautical astronomy — Riddle, E
Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation — ['Valentine, E. Seton', 'Tomlinson, F. L.']
Bref récit et succincte narration de la navigation faite en 1535 et 1536 parle capitaine Jacques Cartier aux îles de Canada, Hochelaga, Saguenay et autres — Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557
Concession de la navigation de la Scarpe, depuis le fort de Scarpe jusqu' à l'Escaut
International Mercantile Marine Company (International Navigation Company) : plan and agreement of reorganization, dated August 3, 1915 — ['International Mercantile Marine Co', 'International Navigation Company (N.Y.)']
Vol. 1892 : Annual report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Pt. 4 Railroad, Canal, Navigation and Telegraph Companies — Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs
The voyage and shipwreck of St. Paul, with dissertations on the life and writings of St. Luke, and the ships and navigation of the ancients — ['Smith, James, 1782-1867', 'Smith, Walter Edward, ed']
Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the Province of Sind, for 1922-23 and 1923-24 (bounded together) — Province of Sind (India, British). Custom Department
Annals of commerce, manufactures, fisheries, and navigation with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them: containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries, from the earliest accounts to meeting of the Union Parliament in January 1801 : with a large appendix : in four volumes. 2 — Macpherson, David
Cugles Practical Navigation — Charles H. Cugle
The anatomy of the Navigation laws — ['Ricardo, John Lewis, 1812-1862', 'Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc']
The book of the sextant, with ancient and modern instruments of navigation — Hughes, A. J. (Arthur Joseph), 1880-1961, author
The English pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West-India navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones. ... The whole being very much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions, not before publish'd. B
A general history and collection of voyages and travels, arranged in systematic order: forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time — ['Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813', 'Stevenson, William, 1772-1829. Historical sketch of the progress of discovery', 'Dunlop, A., associated name']
Tabeller over skibsfart og varetransport gennem Øresund, 1497-1660. Tables de la navigation et du transport des marchandises passant, par le Sund 1497-1660; udarbejdede efter de bevarede regnskeber over Øresundstolden, rédigés d'après les comptes conservés de péage du Sund, udg. paa Carlsberfondets bekostning, pub. aux frais de la fondation de Carlsberg — ['Bang, Nina (Ellinger) 1866-1928', 'Carlsbergfondet (Copenhagen, Denmark)']
Recueil des traités de commerce et de navigation de la France avec les puissances étrangères, depuis la paix de Westphalie, en 1648, suivi du recueil des principaux traités de meme nature — ["Hauterive, Pierre Louis Auguste Bruno Blanc de Lanautte, comte d', 1797-1870", 'France. Treaties, etc', 'Cussy, Ferdinand de Cornot, baron de, 1795-1866']
A catechism of the steam engine and its various applications to mines, mills, steam navigation, railways, and agriculture — Bourne, John, civil engineer. [from old catalog]
Navigation And The Merchant Marine — Washington Government Printing Office
Treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, between His Britannic Majesty, and the United States of America, conditionally ratified by the Senate of the United States, at Philadelphia, June 24, 1795. To which is annexed, a copious appendix. 1795-11-02 — Great Britain.
Historical account of the navigable rivers, canals, and railways, of Great Britain : as a reference to Nichols, Priestley & Walker's new map of inland navigation — Priestley, Joseph, 1766 or 1767-1852
Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the Presidency of Bombay, for the year 1883-84; prepared in the Office of Commissioner of Customs, Salt, Opium and Abkari, and Reporter General of External Commerce — Bombay. India. Bombay Presidency
Theoretical navigation .. — Clark, Lewis, d. 1885
Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the Presidency of Bombay for the Year 1884-85; prepared in the Office of Commissioner of Customs, Salt, Opium and Abkari and Reporter General of External Commerce — India. Bombay Presidency
Le Génie industriel. Revue des inventions francaises et étrangères; annales des progrès de l'industrie agricole et manufacturière. Technologie--mécanique--chemins de fer--navigation--chimie--agriculture--mines--travaux publics et arts divers. Biographie des inventeurs ..
Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the Presidency of Bombay, for the year 1882-83; prepared in the Office of Commissioner of Customs, Salt, Opium and Abkari, and Reporter General of External Commerce — Bombay. India. Bombay Presidency
The treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation between Great Britain and the United States, 1794 — Rankin, Robert Ream
Convention Respecting the Free Navigation of the Suez Maritime Canal — Saïd, M.
Recueil des traités de commerce et de navigation de la France avec les puissances étrangères, depuis la paix de Westphalie, en 1648, suivi du recueil des principaux traités de même nature conclus par les puissances étrangères entre elles, depuis la même époque; — Hauterive, Pierre Louis Auguste Bruno Blanc de Lanautte, comte d', 1797-1870, editor
Oeuvres de M. Gauthey. Tome premier troisieme Memoires sur les canaux de navigation, et particulierement sur le canale du centre, autrefois canal du Charolais. Par M. Gauthey ... Publies par M. Navier, ingenieur .. — Emiland Marie Gauthey
Dictionnaire universel théorique et pratique du commerce et de la navigation HZ
Description and Use of a New and Simple Nautical Chart, for Working the Different Problems in Navigation; With Examples of Its Application according to Mercator's Sailing, and Sailing by the Arc of a Great Circle; With a Demonstration of Its Principles — Garnett, John
The Elements of Navigation Sixth Edition Volume 2 — ['Robertson, J. (John), 1712-1776', 'Wales, William, 1734?-1798']
Waters and Watercourses. Tidal Waters. Right of Federal Government to Improve Navigation
Bref récit et succincte narration de la navigation faite en MDXXXV et MDXXXVI par le capitaine Jacque Castier, aux îles de Canada, Hochelaga, Saguenay et autres ; précédée d'une brève et succincte introduction historique — ['Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557', "Avezac-Macaya, Armand d', 1800-1875"]
A System Of The Shipping And Navigation Laws Vol.1 — Holt, Francis Ludlow
Instructions sur la navigation des Indes Orientales et de la Chine ... par M. d'Après de Mannevillette .. — Jean Baptiste Nicolas Denis : d' Apres de Mannevillette
Essai sur la theorie des torrens et des rivieres, contenant les moyens les plus simples d'en empecher les ravages, d'en retrecir le lit & d'y faciliter la navigation, le hallage & la flottaison. Accompagne d'une discussion sur la navigation interieure de la France; et termine par le projet de rendre Paris, port maritime, en fais — Jean Antoine Fabre
Ice floods and winter navigation of the lower St. Lawrence — Keefer, Thomas Coltrin, 1821-1915
Abolition des guerres; la création de la navigation aérienne au moyen de ptéronaves — [Chouet, Jean Claude Louis] [from old catalog]
A report to the Navy department of the United States, on American coals applicable to steam navigation, and to other purposes — ['Johnson, Walter R[oger], 1794-1852. [from old catalog]', 'United States. Navy dept. [from old catalog]']
An argument on behalf of the city of Wheeling before the Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation upon the memorial of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company / by James S. Wheat — Wheat, James S., author

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