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Captain Marryat : seaman, writer and adventurer A biography of Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) covering his career in the Royal Navy and his success as a novelist. Marryat was the author of Children of the New Forest and stories of the sea such as Mr Midshipman Easy. 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Marryat

Observations on the scurvy : with a review of the opinions lately advanced on that disease and a new theory defended ... Trotter, Thomas, 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:616.392

A description of several instruments for measuring a ship's way through the water ... with an account of his patent perpetual log ... Gower, R H 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.12.053.2

Observations on the scurvy, with a review of the opinions lately advanced on that disease ... Trotter, Thomas, 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:616.392

Family histories in Scottish Customs records / Frances Wilkins Wilkins, Frances 1993 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 337

The eleventh report of the Commissioners ... Great Britain. Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state and condition of the woods forests and land revenues of the Crown and to sell or alienate fee farm and other unimproveable rents 1792 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:674

A letter to the Members of Parliament who have presented petitions ... for the abolition of the slave trade West-India Merchant 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094 <EXTI Philosophical Tracts:529.78

Fixarum praecipuarum catalogus novus ex observationibus astronomicis in specula astronomica Gothana annis 1787. 1788. 1789. 1790. de Zach, Francisco 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Le port de la libertâe : Brest, au temps de l'Indâependance amâericaine /Jean-Yves Besseliáevre, Alain Boulaire, Olivier Corre, Lenaèig L'Aot-Lombart, Marjolaine Mourot ; prâeface d'Olivier Poivre d'Arvor. "In March 1778, the Scottish privateer John Paul Jones landed at Brest. He is the first officer of the young American navy to whom Louis XVI entrusts a ship. France has just joined the United States in fighting against the British Crown. The freedom of the young American nation gets ready on the docks of Penfeld ..."--Provided by the publisher. [2016] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1778/1781"(42:44)

After the lost Franklin expedition : Lady Franklin and John Rae /Peter Baxter. "The fate of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1847 is an enigma that has tantalised generations of historians, archaeologists and adventurers. The expedition was lost without a trace and all 129 men died in what is arguably the worst disaster in Britain's history of polar exploration. In the aftermath of the crew's disappearance, Lady Jane Franklin, Sir John's widow, maintained a crusade to secure her husband's reputation, imperiled alongside him and his crew in the frozen wastes of the Artic. Lady Franklin was an uncommon woman for her age, a socially and politically astute figure who ravaged anyone who she viewed as a threat to her husband's legacy. Meanwhile John Rae, an explorer and employee of the Hudson Bay Company, recovered deeply disturbing information from the Expedition. His shocking conclusions embroiled him in a bitter dispute with Lady Franklin which led to the ruin of his reputation and career. Against the background of Victorian society and the rise of the explorer celebrity, we learn of Lady Franklin's formidable grit to honour her husband's legacy; of John Rae being discredited and his eventual ruin, despite later being proven right. It is a fascinating assessment of the aftermath of the Franklin Expedition and its legacy."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)"1847/1859"

The hanging of Thomas Jeremiah : a free Black man's encounter with liberty /J. William Harris. Harris, J. William, 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 343.1(73)(=013)

Tables astronomiques calculees sur les observations les plus nouvelles : pour servir a la troisieme edition de l'astronomie De La Lande 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52-17:094

Grosser atlas uber die gantze Welt Homann, Johann Baptist 1737 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(100)"17"

The environs of London, being an historical account of the towns, villages and hamlets within twelve miles of that capital, with biographical anecdotes : Greenwich Lysons, Daniel 1792-1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:914.216

A Reply to the answer of the Rev Dr Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal, to A narrative of facts relating to some time-keepers, constructed by Mr Thomas Mudge, for the discovery of the longitude at sea Mudge, Thomas, 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:528.282

A History of the law of shipping and navigation Reeves, John 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:347.79

The environs of London : being an historical account of the towns, villages and hamlets within twelve miles of that capital interspersed with biographical anecdotes : vol 1 Lysons, Daniel 1811 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:914.216

An historical sketch of Gibraltar, with an account of the siege which that fortress stood against the combined forces of France and Spain ... Heriot, J 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1779/1783"(468.2)

Collections for an history of Sandwich in Kent, with notices of the other Cinque Ports and members, and of Richborough Boys, William 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:942.23

Extracts from the treaties between Great Britain and other kingdoms and states of such articles as relate to the duty and conduct of the commanders of HM's ships of war Great Britain. Treaties, etc 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:341.24(42)

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

An essay on vision : briefly explaining the fabric of the eye and the nature of vision, intended for the service of those whose eyes are weak or impaired ... Adams, George,-Geometrical and graphical essays 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:612.84

Exploration of the South Seas in the eighteenth century : rediscovered accounts /Sandhya Patel. "The first volume makes available Samuel Wallis' logs of the Dolphin's voyage 1766-68 in their original form for the first time. Captain Samuel Wallis was the first Englishman to come across the Tuamotus and the Society Isles in the South Pacific, specifically Tahiti. His writings predate the available textual sources by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, the log of the Spanish voyages and James Cook - whose text Wallis' prefigures. The three logs attest to the very first encounter between Europeans and Tahitians, but until now comparatively little research has been conducted on the more elaborate second volume and none on the first. The Polynesian archipelagos grew into objects of discourse over the years and Wallis' logs may very well be located at the heart of these evocative constructs. The translated accounts of voyages undertaken by foreign vessels abounded in an era when they encouraged not only competitive geopolitical initiatives but also commercial enterprises throughout Europe, resulting in a voluminous textual corpus. However, French merchant-seaman Etienne Marchand's journal of his voyage round the world in 1790-1792, encompassing an important visit to the Marquesas Archipelago during his first crossing of the Pacific, remained unpublished until 2005 and has only now been made available in English. The second volume of this series comprises an annotated translation in English of this document."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 910.4(100)

Granville Stapylton : Australia Felix 1836 : Second in command to Major Mitchell /Gregory C. Eccleston. "Granville Stapylton Australia Felix 1836 Second-in-command to Major Mitchell is based on the true journals of the pioneer land surveyor Granville Stapylton when he accompanied Major Thomas Mitchell on the famous 'Australia Felix' expedition in 1836, as his second-in-command. This expedition proceeded down the Lachlan, Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers into far western New South Wales, before crossing into what is now Victoria and proceeded south past the Grampians to the coast at Portland, before returning via Mount Macedon to the settled areas near Gundagai. Their continuous survey traverse from Boree (near Molong) to Jugiong (near Gundagai), via south-west Victoria, was found to have a commendably small misclosure of 13/4 miles. Stapylton's journals clarify when and where several natural history discoveries were made, including that of the now extinct Pig-footed Bandicoot, the now extinct White-footed Rabbit-rat, and the first-ever sighting of an australite. Stapylton's journals also describe several first contacts with the indigenous people, the sometimes-fraught relationship between himself and Mitchell, and Stapylton's concern for the welfare of the young girl Ballandella, whom Mitchell took home to raise with his family: one of the first instances of the 'stolen generation'. Being of the aristocracy, Stapylton found it hard to fraternise with the convicts in the team, but by the end of the expedition he had warmed to them sufficiently to praise them for always treating Turandurey (the female in the party) with respect. The book later describes the attack on Stapylton's survey camp in far north-eastern New South Wales, inland from Mount Warning, in 1840, resulting in the murder of Stapylton and one of his men. The farcical criminal trial in Sydney in 1841 is described in detail, with the men adjudged guilty being brought back to the infant Brisbane Town to be publicly hanged from the vanes of the windmill. Also revealed is Mitchell's assuming responsibility for Stapylton's baby son, including his care and schooling until he was old enough to become employed."--Dust Jacket 2018. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92STAPYLTON

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