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Captain Rous and the 1835 HMS Pique incident : why did it happen and what was its legacy? /Ingrid Carding. Carding, Ingrid 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82PIQUE
Ausfèuhrliche Methode mit dem Fraunhofer'schen Heliometer Beobachtungen anzustellen nebst Cometen-Beobachtungen mit solchem Instrumente auf der Ernestinischen sternwarte Seeberg / angestellt, von P. A. Hansen Hansen, P. A.-(Peter Andreas), 1827. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 520:094
Von der Methode der kleinsten Quadraten im Allgemeinen : und in ihrer Anwendung auf die Geodèasie /P.A. Hansen. Hansen, P. A.-(Peter Andreas), 1867. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 528:094
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encompassing an important visit to the Marquesas Archipelago during his first crossing of the Pacific, remained unpublished until 2005 and has only now been made available in English.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)
Tables du soleil exâecutâees d'apráes les ordres de la Sociâetâe royale des sciences de Copenhague / par P. A. Hansen et C. F. R. Olufsen. Hansen, P. A.-(Peter Andreas), 1853. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 523.9(083.5):094
A history of Halley's comet : with an account of its return in 1835, and a chart showing its situation in the heavens /Translated from the French of G. de Pontecoulant ... by Colonel Charles Gold, C.B. Pontâecoulant, G. de-(Gustave), 1835. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 523.64HALLEY:094
Mâemoire sur le calcul des perturbations et le prochain retour a son pâerihâelie de la comáete de Halley : [mâemoire couronne par l'Acadâemie des Sciences, en 1829] /par G. de Pontâecoulant. Pontâecoulant, G. de-(Gustave), 1829. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 523.64HALLEY
Practical treatise on painting in oil-colours 1795 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:75.021.321
The Swamp Fox : lessons in leadership from the partisan campaigns of Francis Marion /Scott D. Aiken. Aiken, Scott Daniel [2012] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1775/1783"(42:73)
Sir George Burns, Bart : his times and friends /by Edwin Hodder. A biography of Sir George Burns, Bart, co-founder of the Glasgow Steam Packet Company and British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, forerunner of the Cunard Line. 1890. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 347.792Burns
The history of the female shipwright / by Mary Lacy ; with an introduction by Margarette Lincoln. A contemporary edition of Mary Lacy's 1773 biography recounting her life as a sailor and shipwright, after she adopted the name of William Chandler and went to sea as a man. The book recounts Lacy's early life in Kent, her time in the ship Sandwich as a servant to the ship's carpenter, and later as an apprentice shipwright, before ultimately passing her shipwright exam from the British Admiralty, becoming arguably the first British woman to do so. The book also includes descriptions of life on board ship and in the dockyards, and details the author's various romantic entanglements. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Lacy, Mary
Eighteenth century smuggling in Christchurch White, Allen 1973 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.233
Auseinandersetzung einer zweckmassigen methode zur brechnung der absoluten storunden der kleinen planeten / von P. A. Hansen Hansen, P. A.-(Peter Andreas), circa 1865 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 52.092
Carey's American atlas Carey, Mathew 1795 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(7)"17"
Britain's maritime empire : Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763-1820 /John McAleer "A fascinating new study in which John McAleer explores the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope and its critical role in the establishment, consolidation and maintenance of the British Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Situated at the centre of a maritime chain that connected seas and continents, this gateway bridged the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, which, with its commercial links and strategic requirements, formed a global web that reflected the development of the British Empire in the period. The book examines how contemporaries perceived, understood and represented this area; the ways in which it worked as an alternative hub of empire, enabling the movement of people, goods, and ideas, as well as facilitating information and intelligence exchanges; and the networks of administration, security and control that helped to cement British imperial power"-- 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941-44
North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795 Vancouver, George 1798 • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 094:910.4(100)"1790/1795"
Thoughts on the naval strength of the British empire ... Sinclair, John, 1795 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:355.02
Theory of tides St Pierre, M de 1795 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:551.466
Description of a forty-feet reflecting telescope Herschel, William 1912 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 520.224
Handbook of the Admiralty transmitting magnetic compass type I, II and III Great Britain. Admiralty. Compass Department 1948-1952 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11
Naval marine engineering practice : volume 1 Great Britain. Ministry of Defence 1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.23
The Irish coasting pilot Laurie, Robert 1795 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(26:415)"17"
Equiano's daughter : the life of and times of Joanna Vassa, daughter of Olaudah Equiano, Gustavus Vassa, the African /by Angelina Osborne. "The Life and Times of Joanna Vassa' is a remarkable achievement and adds another ripple in the trail to discover more about a great man and his legacy, in this year of the 200th anniversary since the act to abolish the transatlantic slave trade in Britain came into effect. This book honours the legacy of the relentless journey of an abolitionist and the journey to discover what happened to Joanna following his death on the 31st March 1797." 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 305.805092
A voyage round the world / Parker, Mary Ann. 1991. Parker, Mary Ann 1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Gorgon