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East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India

The 24-gun Frigate Pandora 1779 / John McKay & Ron Coleman. The Pandora was a 24-gun Sixth Rate built at Deptford in 1779, best known for her voyage to Tahiti to bring back the mutineers of the Bounty. She was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef on her return journey in 1791. The wreck was discovered in 1977. This book outlines the design and building of the ship, her career and aspects of the excavation of the wreck site. There are photographs of a model of the ship and relics from the excavation. There are more than 300 drawings covering every detail of the ship. Admiralty draughts held by the National Maritime Museum Greenwich form the basis of the hull drawings. The book jacket shows the Pandora's colour scheme and decoration. 1992. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82PANDORA

The cursory sketch of the state of the naval, military and civil establishment, legislative, judicial, and domestic oeconomy of this kingdom during the fourteenth century, with a particular account of the campaign of King Edward the Third in Normandy and France in the years 1345 and 1346 ... : vol 1 Bree, John 1791 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:355.48"1345/1346"

Discoveries of the French in 1768 and 1769 to the south-east of New Guinea, with the subsequent visits to the same lands by English navigators, who gave them new names. To which is prefixed an historical abridgement of the voyages and discoveries of the Spaniards in the same seas Claret de Fleurieu, Charles-Pierre 1791 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(934/935)"1767/1788"

Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789 from China to the N W Coast of America : with an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786 from Bengal in the ship Nootka ... Meares, John 1791 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:910.4(711)"1786/1789"

My inestimable friend / Alastair R. Brown. A biography of Rear-Admiral William Brown (1764-1814), the author's great-great-grandfather. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of 13 as a captain's servant before being appointed a midshipman. He passed his lieutenant's examination in 1788, was promoted to commander in 1791, post-captain in 1793 and was made Rear-Admiral in 1811. He served with the Mediterranean Fleet and joined the Channel Fleet in 1794 under Lord Howe. Brown, then in command of the Ajax, returned to England to give evidence at the court-martial of Vice-Admiral Robert Calder in 1805. A full list of Brown's ships and his family tree are provided. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BROWN

Captain Bligh's second chance : an eyewitness account of his return to the South Seas /by Lt. George Tobin ; edited by Roy Schreiber. An edited publication of Lt. George Tobin's diary, kept during William Bligh's second voyage to the South Pacific in 1791, one year after his return to England following the Bounty mutiny. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(96)"1791/3"

Supplâement au Traitâe des montres áa longitudes : suivi de la notice des recherches de l'auteur, depuis 1752 jusques en 1807 /par Ferdinand Berthoud. Berthoud, Ferdinand, 1807. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.282:094

A treatise founded upon philosophical and rational principles towards establishing fixed rules for the best form and proportional dimensions in length, breadth and depth of merchant's ships in general, and also the management of them to the greatest advantage by practical seamanship ... Hutchinson, William 1791 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:629.12

The 24-gun frigate Pandora / John McKay & Ron Coleman. The Pandora was a 24-gun Sixth Rate built at Deptford in 1779, best known for her voyage to Tahiti to bring back the mutineers of the Bounty. She was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef on her return journey in 1791. The wreck was discovered in 1977. This book outlines the design and building of the ship, her career and aspects of the excavation of the wreck site. There are photographs of a model of the ship and relics from the excavation. There are more than 300 drawings covering every detail of the ship. Admiralty draughts held by the National Maritime Museum Greenwich form the basis of the hull drawings. The book jacket shows the Pandora's colour scheme and decoration. This is a revised edition of the 1992 book and includes a 1/128 scale fold out plan with keys to rigging drawings. 2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82PANDORA

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

Lady Franklin's revenge : a true story of ambition, obsession and the remaking of Arctic history /Ken McGoogan. A biography of Lady Jane Franklin (1791-1875), born Jane Griffin, who became the second wife of the English explorer Sir John Franklin. A traveller in her own right, she accompanied her husband when he was posted to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) as Lieutenant Governor and became known for her philanthropic work and travels in south-eastern Australia. With her encouragement, Franklin led an expedition to find the North West Passage in 1845 but the lack of news led her to lobby the Admiralty to mount a number of expeditions to ascertain its fate. Her prolific letter writing and circle of influential political contacts helped to ensure that she could raise the support and sponsorship necessary and that the expedition's fate and her husband were not forgotten. Outraged by explorer John Rae's report and the evidence he obtained from local Inuit which indicated both her husband's death and the suggestion that the crew had resorted to cannibalism in order to survive, Lady Franklin launched a campaign to preserve the reputation of and memorialise her husband. She successfully shifted the narrative around the expedition so that the disaster would become publicly understood as a heroic endeavour and her husband celebrated for the apparent discovery of the North West Passage. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FRANKLIN, JANE GRIFFITH, LADY

Parameters of British naval power, 1650-1850 / edited by Michael Duffy. 1992. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.49"1650/1850"(42)

The unfortunate Captain Peirce and the wreck of the Halsewell, East Indiaman a life and death in the maritime service of the East India Company /Philip Browne. An account of the life of Captain Richard Peirce and the sinking of the ship Halsewell off the coast of Dorset in 1786. At the time of the sinking, Peirce had had a successful career with the East India Company and had commanded the Halsewell since its launch in 1778, completing two earlier voyages to India. Soon after departing on its third voyage, the Halsewell encountered bad weather, was damaged and finally ran aground on rocks. As a result of the sinking, Peirce and his two daughters lost their lives along with many other passengers and crew. The author also describes the aftermath of the wreck which received considerable attention: King George III viewed the site, the wreck became the subject of a Eidophusikon show combining pictures with lighting and sound effects, and the event was the subject of paintings and poetry. Includes an extract from the family tree of the Peirce family, a bibliography and detailed notes. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3HALSEWELL

J.F. Encke's astronomische Abhandlungen : zusammengestellt aus den Jahrgèangen 1830 bis 1862 des Berliner astronomischen Jahrbuches nebst drei in diesen Jahrgèangen enthaltenen Abhandlungen /von Bessel, Olbers, und Bremicker. 1866. • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 52"1830/1862":094

England's mistress : the infamous life of Emma Hamilton /Kate Williams. This is a comprehensive biography of Emma Hamilton, Lord Nelson's mistress. It covers her entire life from her birth in 1765 to her death in Calais in 1815, when she was survived by her daughter, Horatia. As a young girl Emma came to London to make her fortune and eventually married Sir William Hamilton, the British Envoy to Naples in 1791. She became a close friend of the Queen of Naples and then Lord Nelson's mistress. The book draws on many letters which were previously undiscovered. There are reproductions of the famous Romney portraits of Emma as well as illustrations by Gilray and Rowlandson lampooning Emma and her relationship with Nelson. There are extensive notes, a bibliography and an index. 2006. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92HAMILTON

The first panoramas : visions of British imperialism /Denise Blake Oleksijczuk. "The First Panoramas is a cultural history of the first three decades of the panorama, a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual medium patented by the artist Robert Barker in Britain in 1787. A towering two-story architectural construction inside which spectators gazed on a 10,000-square-foot painting, Barker's new technology was designed to create an impression of total verisimilitude for the observer. In the beautifully illustrated The First Panoramas, Denise Blake Oleksijczuk demonstrates the complexity of the panoramas' history and cultural impact, exploring specific exhibits: View of Edinburgh and the Adjacent Country from the Calton Hill (1788), View of London from the Roof of the Albion Mill (1791), View of the Grand Fleet Moored at Spithead (1793), and the two different versions of View of Constantinople (1801). In addition to the art itself, she examines the panoramas' intriguing descriptive keys--single-sheet diagrams that directed spectators to important sites in the representation, which evolved over time to give the observer greater perceptual control over the view. Using the surviving evidence, much of it never published before, on the early exhibitions of these massive installations, Oleksijczuk reconstructs the relationships between specific paintings, their accompanying printed guides, and the collective experiences of different audiences. She argues that by transporting its spectators to increasingly distant locations, first in the city and country and then in the world beyond Britain's borders, the panorama created a spatial and temporal disjunction between "here" and "there" that helped to forge new national and social identities"--Provided by publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.047(42)"17"

Bligh : William Bligh in the South Seas /Anne Salmond. A biography of William Bligh (1754-1817). The author, an anthropologist, focuses on Bligh's three voyages in the South Seas and the impact of his encounters with the Pacific Islanders. Beginning with Bligh's voyage on the Resolution with Captain Cook (1776-80) during which Cook met his death, the author also examines Bligh's first breadfruit voyage on the Bounty (1787-89) during which the famous mutiny occured and resulted in Bligh's 3,618-mile voyage in an open boat to Timor, and then, finally, his second breadfruit voyage on HMS Providence (1791-93). Detailed notes and a bibliography are provided. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BLIGH

The ambitions of Jane Franklin : Victorian lady adventurer /Alison Alexander. A biography of Jane Franklin (1791?1875), born Jane Griffin. Well educated, Jane travelled in Europe as a young woman. Following her marriage to Sir John Franklin in 1828, Jane continued to travel alone and with companions around the Mediterranean. In 1836 John Franklin was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) and Jane accompanied him there travelling widely across Australia and becoming involved in life in the colony. Recalled at the end of 1843, John Franklin was then appointed to lead an expedition to find the North-West passage. Departing in 1845, Franklin disappeared and Jane then devoted herself to finding out what had happened to the expedition, sponsoring seven expeditions to find him and supporting many others. Faced with Dr John Rae's evidence of cannibalism, she used her influence to challenge the evidence and maintain her husband's reputation as a polar hero, in the process destroying Rae's reputation. She continued to travel widely until her death at the age of 84. The text is supported by photographs, a bibliography and notes. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FRANKLIN, JANE

The slave trade debate : contemporary writings for and against /introduction by John Pinfold. At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This publication reproduces a selection of representative pamphlets encompassing the arguments put forward by each side. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42)"17/18"

The British Navy in the Baltic / John D. Grainger. "This book presents a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Baltic Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth century. It traces developments from Anglo-Saxon times, through the medieval period when there were frequent disputes between English kings and the Hanseatic League, the seventeenth-century wars with the Dutch, and Britain's involvement in the Northern Wars in the early years of the eighteenth century. It considers in detail the major period of British involvement in the Baltic during the Napoleonic Wars, when the British navy fought the Danes, Napoleon's allies, and was highly effective in ensuring Sweden's neutrality and Russia's change of allegiance. It goes on to discuss British naval actions in the Baltic during the Crimean War and in the First World War and its aftermath. Throughout, the book relates naval actions to patterns of trade, to wider international politics, and to geographical factors such as winter sea ice and the shallow nature of the Baltic Sea."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"800/1950"(42)

Scriptores logarithmici; or, a collection of several curious tracts on the nature and construction of logarithms... Maseres, Francis 1791-1807 • RARE-FOLIO • 6 copies available. 51:094

Grote atlas van de West-Indische Compagnie = Comprehensive atlas of the Dutch West India Company. Volume I: The old WIC, 1621-1674" of the Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch West India Company, which is scheduled to appear in October/November 2011, will in this way deal with the legacy of manuscript maps, ground-plans and topographical depictions from the entire WIC charter area in the period up to 1674. In the first place much attention will naturally be devoted to the colonies of New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland, with New Amsterdam, the present New York, 1624-1664) and Brazil (1624-1654). As well as these the volume will present a complete survey in map and image of the early WIC settlements in the Antilles, on what was called the Wild Coast or Guyana including the later Surinam, and on the coasts of Africa, and of the various explorations and military operations carried out by Dutch fleets in the area of the Atlantic Ocean and along the Pacific coasts of South and Central America. 2011-2012. • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available. 347.71DUTCH WEST INDIA(084.3)

Staying power : the history of black people in Britain /Peter Fryer "'STAYING POWER is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of two thousand years of Black presence in Britain. First published in the 1980s, amidst race riots and police brutality, Fryer's history performed a deeply political act; revealing how Africans, Asians and their descendants had long been erased from British history. By rewriting black Britons into the British story, showing where they influenced political traditions, social institutions and cultural life, was - and is - a deeply effective counter to a racist and nationalist agenda.This new edition includes the classic introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of 'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack', in addition to a brand-new foreword by Guardian journalist Gary Younge, which examines the book's continued significance today as we face Brexit and a revival of right wing nationalism."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 305.896041

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