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Narrative of an attempt to reach the North Pole, in boats fitted for the purpose, and attached to His Majesty's Ship Hecla, in the year MDCCCXXVII. Parry, William Edward,-Sir, 1828. • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:910.4(98)"1827"

Regulations and instructions relating to His Majesty's service at sea : established by His Majesty in council. Great Britain.-Admiralty 1806 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.51(42)"1790"

Dumont d'Urville, explorer & polymath / Edward Duyker. "Explorer Jules-Sâebastien-Câesar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) is sometimes called France's Captain Cook. Born less than a year after the beginning of the French Revolution, he lived through turbulent times. He was an erudite polymath: a maritime explorer fascinated by botany, entomology, ethnography and the diverse languages of the world. As a young ensign he was decorated for his pivotal part in France's acquisition of the famous Vâenus de Milo. D'Urville's voyages and writings meshed with an emergent French colonial impulse in the Pacific. In this magnificent biography Edward Duyker reveals that D'Urville had secret orders to search for the site for a potential French penal colony in Australia. He also effectively helped to precipitate pre-emptive British settlement on several parts of the Australian coast. D'Urville visited New Zealand in 1824, 1827 and 1840. This wide-ranging survey examines his scientific contribution, including the plants and animals he collected, and his conceptualisation of the peoples of the Pacific: it was he who first coined the terms Melanesia and Micronesia. D'Urville helped to confirm the fate of the missing French explorer Lapâerouse, took Charles X into exile after the Revolution of 1830, and crowned his navigational achievements with two pioneering Antarctic descents. Edward Duyker has used primary documents that have long been overlooked by other historians. He dispels many myths and errors about this daring explorer of the age of sail and offers his readers grand adventure and surprising drama and pathos."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92D'URVILLE

The Britannia in a storm 1790 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:784.4

The honest waterman 1790 • MUSIC • 1 copy available. 094:784.4

Journal of a third voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, performed in the years 1824-25, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Fury Parry, William Edward,-Sir, 1826 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:910.4(987)"1824/1825"

Journals of the first, second and third voyages for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in 1819-20-21-22-23-24-25, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla, Griper and Fury / Parry, William Edward. 1828-1829. Parry, William Edward,-Sir, 1828-1829 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(987)"1819/1825"

The Quid : or tales of my messmates, being a colection of yarns, ditties, quid-ditties, and od-ditties, by a steerage passenger /[by Tomkins ; ill. J. Meadows]. [Tomkins] 1832. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 820-82:094

Nautical astronomy by night : comprehending practical directions for knowing and observing the principal fixed stars visible in the northern hemisphere ... Parry, William Edward,-Sir, 1816 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:527

Collection de diffâerens traitâes sur des instrumens d'astronomie, physique, &c. / par J.H. de Magellan Magalhäaes, Joäao Jacinto de, 1780. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 520:681.2:094

The mariners : a favourite glee Ravenscroft, Mr 1790 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:784.4

Atlas national de France [Cassini de Thury, Cesar Francois] 1790 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(44)"17"

Regulations and instructions relating to His Majesty's service at sea : established by His Majesty in council. Great Britain.-Admiralty 1790 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.51(42)"1790"

The old sailor's jolly boat : laden with tales, yarns, scraps, fragments, etc., etc. to please all hands ; pulled by wit, fun, humor, and pathos /and steered by M.H. Barker. Old Sailor, 1844. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 820-3

A scientific voyage in the southern hemisphere and around the world executed successively on board the King's corvette Uranie and His Majesty's corvette La Physicienne during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 : narrative journal of Joseph-Paul Gaimard commissioned surgeon of the Marine Royale /edited by Sylvie Brassard and John Milsom. Gaimard, Paul 2025. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 059

Arctic genius : Sir William Edward Parry : the original Arctic explorer "This is the life of a forgotten hero. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of 13, endured years of arduous patrol duty in the English Channel, the Baltic and on the coast of North America, and became a pioneer of British Arctic exploration. He led four expeditions over ten years culminating in a failed attempt to reach the North Pole over land. Parry became an international celebrity. He and John Franklin, his close friend, made headline news frequently. The British public were absorbed by the Arctic regions with their mystical reputation whilst the explorers, marvelling at the sculpted icebergs, strange meteorological events and the inexplicable display of the Northern Lights, developed a spiritual relationship amounting to near obcession." 2025. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans and performed in the years 1790 Vancouver, George 1798 • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 094:910.4(100)"1790/1795"

A treatise of practical astronomy Vince, S 1790 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 520.25

Observations on a Roman horologium, found in Italy Gough, Richard 1790 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:681.111(37)

Doubts on the abolition of the slave trade 1790 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:326.8

Efterretninger om den danske soe-etat fra forrige tider 1790 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.49(489)

A Companion to the Museum Leverian Museum 1979 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069(421)

Epitome of the whole art of navigation ... Atkinson, James 1790 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527

A treatise on practical astronomy Vince, S. 1790 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

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