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Copies Of Volumes And Documents - Photostats


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 PST

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Copies Of Volumes And Documents - Photostats

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Level of description: Collection

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CONTEXT

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Copies of Volumes and Documents - Photostats

CONTENT

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These include two early works on shipbuilding: Matthew Baker's 'Fragments of English Shipwrightry', c 1586, and Sir Anthony Deane's 'Doctrine of Naval Architecture', 1670, held in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Other examples include copies of two letters written by Sir Francis Drake, ([1540]-1596) 1587 and 1589, a copy of his will, 1595, and one of his 'Pilot of the Caribbean and Azores', 1596; copies of the will of Captain Cook, made in 1776, and of fifty-six letters by or about Lord Nelson, 1780 to 1805, and the personal papers of Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1813), Astronomer Royal.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 2011-05-16


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Geographical exploration | Geography
Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) | Wars (events)
Shipbuilding industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry

Personal names
Cook | James | 1728-1779 | explorer
Maskelyne | Nevil | 1732-1811 | astronomer
Nelson | Horatio | 1758-1805 | 1st Viscount Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe | Vice-Admiral x Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe | 1st Viscount

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