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A voyage to the Pacific Ocean : undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : to determine the position and extent of the west side of North America ... performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 / Cook, James. 1784?. Cook, James 1784? • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(93/96)"1776/1780"

Australia's empire / [edited by] Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward. "The volume examines the meaning and importance of empire in Australia across a broad spectrum of historical issues - ranging from the disinheritance of the Aborigines to the foundations of a new democratic state. The overriding theme is the distinctive Australian perspective on empire. The country's adherence to imperial ideals and aspirations involved not merely the building of a 'new Britannia' but also the forging of a distinctive new culture and society. It was Australian interests and aspirations which ultimately shaped 'Australia's Empire'."--BOOK JACKET. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 994

A voyage to the Pacific Ocean : undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, to determine the position and extent of the west side of North America ... performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore ... in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 Cook, James 1784 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(93/96)"1776/1780"

A voyage to the Pacific Ocean : undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 : volume 2 Cook, James 1785 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(93/96)"1776/1780"

Captain Cook's final voyage : the untold story from the journals of James Burney and Henry Roberts /edited by James K. Barnett ; foreword by Richard Neville ; introduction by Glyn Williams. "Maritime historian and researcher James K. Barnett transcribed two extraordinary but little-known journals from celebrated mariner Captain James Cook?s third exploratory expedition. Two young officers from the voyage offer remarkable eyewitness accounts at the time of initial European contact, the first reasonably accurate maps of North America's west coast, the earliest comprehensive report from the Bering Sea ice pack, and the dramatic story of Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. Particularly astonishing for accounts of landings along Hawaii, Vancouver Island, and Alaska, both journals have languished in Australian archives for over a century. Barnett adds context and commentary to complete the story. Commissioned by the British Admiralty, Cook set sail in July 1776 to confirm the outline of North America's Pacific coastline and to search for the elusive Northwest Passage. The expedition's two modest sailing ships, the Resolution and the Discovery, traveled to the South Seas, then chanced upon the Hawaiian Islands before reaching the Oregon coastline and the Arctic ice pack. Fatefully, the captain chose to winter in the Hawaiian archipelago, where he died in a skirmish. The crews made a second unsuccessful attempt to find the coveted route, then returned to England after more than four years at sea. James Burney was first lieutenant for the commander of the Discovery, Charles Clerke. He was active in many shore parties, prepared many of the voyage's charts, and witnessed Cook's death from the ship's deck. One of the few accounts from the consort vessel, his journal provides new details and important, thoughtful impressions of North and South Pacific people and places. Working under the notorious William Bligh, Henry Roberts was Master's Mate on the Resolution, performing essential hydrographic and cartographic tasks for the captain. He was only a few feet away when Cook was killed. His well-illustrated logbook includes coordinates, tables of routes, and records of weather at sea, but also lively accounts of shore excursions. The text is well-illustrated by the officers' maps and drawings, as well as a host of lavish images drawn by the expedition's official artist, John Webber."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(93/96)"1776/1780"

A voyage to the Pacific Ocean : undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : to determine the position and extent of the west side of North America ... performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 / Cook, James. 1785. Cook, James 1785 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(93/96)"1776/1780"

From Grub Street to Fleet Street : an illustrated history of English newspapers to 1899 /by Bob Clarke. "In this book, Bob Clarke examines the organization and development of the English newspaper from its early origin in the broadsides of the sixteenth century, through the burgeoning of the press during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to its arrival as a respectable part of the establishment in the nineteenth century. Along the way this narrative is illuminated with stories of the characters who contributed to the growth of the English press in all its rich variety of forms, and how newspapers tailored their contents to particular audiences.". 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 070(091)(42)".../1899"

The political uses of sea power Luttwak, Edward N 1974 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 327

Von der Schwere eines Schiffs im Wasser ... Scheldon, Gilbert 1750 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:629.12.075

Great maps : the world's masterpieces explored and explained /Jerry Brotton. "This beautifully illustrated book showcases more than 60 of the greatest maps ever made, from the ancient Babylonian map carved on a stone tablet, through medieval maps such as the mappa mundi to the modern satellite images of Google Earth. Drawing upon geography, science, exploration, art, culture, and mythology, maps have existed almost as long as the human race. They do more than simply describe the landscape - they also offer a unique window into the lives and beliefs of their creators. Great Maps shows how they have changed our understanding of the world, and features both entire maps and close-up visual tours that pull out key details that offer intriguing historical and cultural context. From maps of the world filled with fantastical monsters, through famous explorers discovering new continents, to the first road atlases and modern data-mapping and cartography, Great Maps explores in stunning photographic detail how maps have influenced and reflected our world throughout history."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 912.43(100)

Astronomical observations made at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich in the year ... Royal Observatory, Greenwich. • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.

Vom Mittelpuncte der Schwere in einem Schiffe und deffen vortheilhafter Stellung ... Scheldon, Gilbert 1750 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:629.12.075

The English hero : or Sir Francis Drake reviv'd B, R 1750 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Drake

The mariner's compass rectified ... / Wakely, Andrew. 1749. Wakely, Andrew 1749 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:528.28

Orcades : or a geographic and hydrographic survey of the Orkney and Lewis Islands Mckenzie, Murdoch, 1750 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(26:411)"17"

The quiet revolution of Caroline Herschel : the lost heroine of astronomy /Emily Winterburn. "Caroline Herschel was a prolific writer and recorder of her private and academic life, through diaries, autobiographies for family members, notebooks and observation notes. Yet for reasons unknown she destroyed all of her notebooks and diaries from 1788-1797. As a result, we have almost no record of the decade in which she made her most influential mark on science when she discovered eight comets and became the first woman to have a paper read at the Royal Society. ... By piecing together - from letters, reminiscences and museum objects - a detailed account of the time, we get to see a new side to history's 'most admirable lady astronomer' and one of the greatest pioneering female scientists of all time."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HERSCHEL

L'art de mesurer sur mer le sillage du vaisseau Saverien, Alexandre 1750 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.12.053.2

Discoverers of the universe : William and Caroline Herschel /Michael Hoskin. This biography traces William and Caroline Herschel's many extraordinary contributions to astronomy, shedding new light on their productive but complicated relationship, and setting their scientific achievements in the context of their personal struggles, larger-than-life ambitions, bitter disappointments, and astonishing triumphs.--Book jacket. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HERSCHEL

Optical essays : containing a practical description of the several sorts of single, solar and compound microscopes ... Martin, Benjamin 1750? • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:681.7

A method to multiply or divide any number of figures by alike or a less number Mackenzie-Quin, Quin 1750 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 519.66:094

The English pilot : the third book: describing the sea-coasts ... in the oriental navigation ... Seller, John 1750 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(261:264:267)"17"

Law, labour, and empire : comparative perspectives on seafarers, c. 1500-1800 /Maria Fusaro, Bernard Allaire, Richard J. Blakemore, Tijl Vanneste. "Seafarers were the first workers to inhabit a truly international labour market, a sector of industry which, throughout the early modern period, drove European economic and imperial expansion, technological and scientific development, and cultural and material exchanges around the world. This volume adopts a comparative perspective, presenting current research about maritime labourers across three centuries, in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, to understand how seafarers contributed to legal and economic transformation within Europe and across the world. Focusing on the three related themes of legal systems, labouring conditions, and imperial power, these essays explore the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between seafarers' individual and collective agency, and the social and economic frameworks which structured their lives"-- 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 331.7/6313870903

The original astronomical observations, made in the course of a voyage to the Northen Pacific Ocean for the discovery of a North East and North West Passage ... in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery ... / by James Cooke, James King, William Bayly. Cook, James, 1782 printing (London : printed by William Richardson). • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:52-13

Methode de lever les plans et les cartes de terre et de mer, avec toutes sortes d'instruments et sans instruments Ozanam, Jacques 1750 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:528.4

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