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An historical journal of events at Sydney and at sea 1787-1792 Hunter, John 1968 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.51(944)"17"

Venus at the Isle of Desolation : my private journal during the Transit of Venus Expedition in 1874 Corbet, Cyril 1875 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 521.842"1874"

Observations on a current that often prevails to the westward of Scilly, endangering the safety of ships that approach the British Channel Rennell, James 1793 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:551.465.5

[Sailing instructions and signals by day 1794? • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:627.724

A view of the diseases of the army in Great Britain, America, the West Indies ... Reide, Thomas Dickson 1793 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:616.92

The new royal geographical magazine or modern, complete, authentic and copious system of universal geography ... Adams, Michael 1793 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:914/919

A treatise on the theory and practice of seamanship Gower, Richard Hall (act) 1793 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:656.61.052

Sydney's first four years Tench, Watkin 1961 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.51(944)"17"

Recueil de mâemoires prâesentâes áa l'Acadâemie des sciences par les astronomes de Poulkova, ou offerts áa l'Observatoire central par d'autres astronomes du pays;publiâe avec l'autorisation de l'acadâemie par W. Struve. Struve, F. G. W.-(Friedrich Georg Wilhelm), 1853-59. • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 52:094

Time and the French Revolution : the Republican calendar, 1789-year XIV /Matthew Shaw. "The French Republican Calendar was perhaps the boldest of all the reforms undertaken in Revolutionary France. Introduced in 1793 and used until 1806, the Calendar not only reformed the weeks and months of the year, but decimalised the hours of the day and dated the year from the beginning of the French Republic. This book not only provides a history of the calendar, but places it in the context of eighteenth-century time-consciousness, arguing that the French were adept at working within several systems of time-keeping, whether that of the Church, civil society, or the rhythms of the seasons. Developments in time-keeping technology and changes in working patterns challenged early-modern temporalities, and the new calendar can also be viewed as a step on the path toward a more modern conception of time. In this context, the creation of the calendar is viewed not just as an aspect of the broader republican programme of social, political and cultural reform, but as a reflection of a broader interest in time and the culmination of several generations' concern with how society should be policed."--Publisher's description. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1793/1806"(44):529.5

Opticorum libri sex philosophis iuxta ac mathematicis utiles Agulonius, Francisco 1613 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 535:094

Christmas greetings : Christmas card containing a reproduction of an oil painting: The 'Victory' leaving the channel in 1793 (BHC3696) [1950] • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 069(26:421.6)(089.7)"383Christmas"

A tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, Tarudant, and thence, over Mount Atlas, to Morocco Lempriere, William 1793 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(64)"1789/1790"

A voyage to Madagascar and the East Indies to which is added M Brunel's Memoir on the Chinese trade Rochon, Alexis Marie 1793 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:916.91

A plan of a course of lectures on the principles of natural philosophy Vince, S 1793 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:52/53

Papers and correspondence of Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth / edited by John D. Grainger. "Sir John Duckworth commanded ships and squadrons and fleets throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He was an assiduous correspondent, writing to Admirals St Vincent, Nelson, Collingwood, and numerous other naval officers. He kept every piece of paper he wrote on or received. He was in the first expedition to the West Indies when he went on a mission to the United States to suppress a French privateer. He commanded a ship in First of June fight in 1794, and was peripherally involved in the great naval mutinies of 1797. He was picked out by Lord St Vincent to command the recovery of Minorca in 1798. He returned to the West Indies in 1799 where he was commander-in-chief in the Leeward Islands, and then at Jamaica. There he was much involved in the Revolutionary war in Haiti, eventually receiving several thousands of French refugees and sending them on to France. A spell with the Channel fleet was succeeded by time at the blockade of Gibraltar. Against orders, he chased a French squadron across the Atlantic and destroyed it (Battle of San Domingo 1796). One of his more curious adventures was a diplomatic mission to the Constantinople to browbeat the Ottoman Sultan into making peace with Russia in 1807. He failed, of course, and was criticised for not bombarding the city. He served out his time afloat with the Channel fleet, displaying his usual humanity. A three-year appointment as governor of Newfoundland completed his career."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.3/32092

Gender, morality, and race in Company India, 1765-1858 / Joseph Sramek. "Between 1765 and 1858, British imperialists in India obsessed continuously about gaining and preserving Indian "opinion" of British moral and racial prestige. Weaving political, intellectual, cultural, and gender history together in an innovative approach, Gender, morality, and race in Company India, 1765-1858 examines imperial anxieties regarding British moral misconduct in India ranging from debt and gift giving to drunkenness and irreligion and points out their wider relationship to the structuring of British colonialism. Showing a pervasive fear among imperial elites of losing "mastery" over India, as well as a deep distrust of Indian civil and military subordinates through whom they ruled, Sramek demonstrates how much of the British Raj's notable racial arrogance after 1858 can in fact be traced back into the preceding Company period of colonial rule. Rather than the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857 ushering in a more racist form of colonialism, this book powerfully suggests far greater continuity between the two periods of colonial rule than scholars have hitherto generally recognized"-- 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.3(42:52)"1765/1858"

The truth about the mutiny on HMAV Bounty : and the fate of Fletcher Christian /Glynn Christian. "The Truth About the Mutiny on HMAV BOUNTY - and the Fate of Fletcher Christian brings this famed South Pacific saga into the 21st century. By combining unprecedented research into Fletcher Christian and his fate with deep knowledge of Bounty's Polynesian women, Glynn Christian presents a fresh and comprehensive telling of a powerful maritime adventure that still captivates after 230 years. Of over 3000 books and major articles on the mutiny, or the five feature films starring such as Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Marlon Brando and Mel Gibson, none has told the true story as until 1982, no author knew the real Fletcher Christian, or could understand his relationship with William Bligh, his mentor-turned-nemesis. Glynn Christian's extraordinary research into Bligh, Christian and Bounty included every deposit of documents worldwide and a sailing expedition to Pitcairn Island. This book details the cramped dark conditions on the ship and how Bligh bravely commanded it at Cape Horn, saving it and the crew. Yet he was unable to keep discipline because he didn't punish enough, instead relying on his brutal tongue. Forced to remain in Tahiti for 23 weeks, Bligh struggled to retain order when Bounty sailed. Glynn Christian reveals how this affected Fletcher Christian mentally, explaining his out-of-character mutiny. Then Christian showed revolutionary social conscience, using democracy and uniforms on Bounty to maintain leadership, including through the little-known settlement of Fort George on Tubuai. After this, he and Bounty disappeeared for 18 years. Bounty's story becomes that of Pitcairn Island, of revolutionary black women who protected their children with the blood of their fathers and continued Fletcher's ideals to become the first women in the world permanently to have the vote and guarantee education for girls. But where was Fletcher Christian?"--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 996.18

Memoir for the correction of time, shewing a new system of the universe ... with an easy manner of correcting the longitude at sea and land Pellizer, Joseph Emanuel 1793 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:528.282

Picturesque views, on the river Medway, from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex ... Ireland, Samuel 1793 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:914.223

Abrege de navigation, historique, theorique et pratique... Lalande, Jerome 1793 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:527

Historia de la ultima guerra entre la Inglaterra, los Estados Unidos de America, la Francia, Espana, y Holanda desde el ano de 1775 en que se principio hasta el de 1783 en que se concluyo ... 1793 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1775/1783"(73)

Britain's convicts to the colonies A study of the transportation of English convicts during the period 1763-1793 including transportation to North America, West Africa and New South Wales. The work is based on the author's thesis submitted to London University in 1933 and concerns the administration of the system rather than transportation as a means of colonization. Includes statistics, details of the process of transportation and the use of prison hulks. Appendices also cover the transportation of Irish and Scottish convicts. References, an index and bibliography are also provided. 1990 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 343.87(42:6)"1785/1786"

The Durham papers : selections from the papers of Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood Durham, G.C.B. (1763-1845) /edited by Hilary L. Rubinstein "Admiral Sir Philip Durham (1763?1845) was one of the most distinguished and colourful officers of the late Georgian Navy. His lucky and sometimes controversial career included surviving the sinking of HMS Royal George in 1782, making the first conquest of the tricolour flag in 1793 and the last in 1815, and having two enemy ships surrender to him at Trafalgar. A Scot distantly related to Lord Barham, Durham entered the Navy in 1777, serving initially on the American and West Indies stations. He was Kempenfelt's signal officer on HMS Victory during the second battle of Ushant in 1781 and on the Royal George. Making his reputation initially as the daring young master and commander of HMS Spitfire early in the French Revolutionary War, he became a crack frigate captain with a fortune in prize money, and commanded HMS Defiance at Trafalgar, where he was wounded. He ended his war service as Commander-in-Chief, Leeward Islands. En voyage he artfully captured two brand-new French frigates which were subsequently taken into the service of Britain, and during his tenure he won the heartfelt gratitude of local merchants by ridding the surrounding seas of American privateers preying on British trading vessels. True to form, he clashed with the judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court on Antigua and with the general with whom he led a combined naval and military assault on Martinique and Guadeloupe following Napoleon's escape from Elba. He later served as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth having resigned his parliamentary seat to do so. Married first to the sister of the Earl of Elgin, of 'Marbles' fame, and secondly to a cousin of 'sea wolf' Lord Cochrane, he was well-known to George III, who as a result of Durham's amusing yet improbable anecdotes, dubbed any tall tale he heard 'a Durham'. This collection of his papers consists mainly of letters and despatches relating to his service in the Channel Fleet, the Mediterranean, and the Leeward Islands. Correspondence with his parents during 1789?1790 reflects his anxieties relating to employment and prospects for promotion when he was a young lieutenant with an illegitimate child to support. The collection, featuring items from and to him, comprises a fascinating and informative set of documents."--Provided by publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22NRS

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