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War, empire and slavery, 1770-1830 / edited by Richard Bessel, Nicholas Guyatt and Jane Rendall. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.01:326(4-44)"1770/1830"

The naval gazetteer : or seaman's complete guide. Containing a full and accurate account, alphabetically arranged, of the several coasts of all the countries and islands in the known world ... illustrated with a correct set of charts ... Malham, John 1795 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527.83

The North American pilot : second part: for New England, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and the Havanna Jefferys, Thomas 1795 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(261)"17"

The repertory of arts and manufactures : consisting of original communications, specifications of patent inventions, and selections of useful practical papers from the Transactions of the Philosophical Societies of all nations etc : volume 2 1795 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:608.3

English paintings of English poetry : a gallery guide "This leaflet provides the poetic sources and a brief commentary for a selection of paintings in the Tate by some of the greatest English artists, Hogarth, Blake, Turner, as well as some more obscure, but fascinating, figures such as John Hamilton Mortimer ca1980 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 7.046

The rockets' red glare : the War of 1812 and Connecticut "The War of 1812 was a turning point for the nation, and for the state of Connecticut. The Rocket's Red Glare examines the many facets of America's second major war, and its impact on destiny. A series of essays represents a collaborative effort of museums, historical societies and scholars to tell Connecticut's story in the War of 1812 and place it in the context of larger national and international events. With full color illustrations." 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.49"1812"(42:73)

An account of life on board HMS Flora May 26 - September 12, 1794 Warren, John Borlase 1997 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92COTTON, CHARLES Bowland

Letters of Euler to a German princess on different subjects in physics and phylosophy Euler 1795 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 5.093:094

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

Romantic-era shipwreck narratives : an anthology /edited by Carl Thompson. An anthology of popular narratives about shipwrecks, published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3

Navies of the Napoleonic era / Otto von Pivka. Pivka, Otto von, 1980. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1792/1815"

The memoirs and adventures of Mark Moore, late an officer in the British navy. Interspersed with a variety of original anecdotes, selected from his journals, when in the Tuscan, Portuguese, Swedish, Imperial, American, and British service, in each of which he bore a commission Moore, Mark 1795 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Moore, Mark

A fisherman of Greenwich / Julie Tadman. The biography of William Bracegirdle, born around 1782 and apprenticed as a fisherman in 1795 under John Mann of Greenwich. As a fisherman, boat builder and businessman Bracegirdle lived and worked in the area throughout his life, a tenant for a time of Ballast Quay owned by Morden College. Much of the text concerns a court case concerning the use of the Quay. The author is a descendant of Bracegirdle. An extract of the list of apprenticeship records from St Alfege church showing the names of Master Fishermen and their apprentices 1703-1816 is provided. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Astronomia philolaica. : opus novum. . . superque illa hypothesi tabulae constructae omnium, quotquot hactenus editae sunt, facillimae. Bullialdus, Ismael 1645 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 52.092:094

Seamanship : both in theory and practice Steel, David, 1795 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:656.61.052

Conversaciones de Ulloa con sus tres hijos en servicio de la marina instructivas y curiosas, sobre las navegaciones, y modo de hacerlas, el pilotage, y la maniobra; noticia de vientos, mares, corrientes, paxaros, pescados y anfibios; y de los fenomenos que se observan en los mares en la redondez del globo Ulloa 1795 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527

Fisherman of Greenwich / Julie Tadman. The biography of William Bracegirdle written by a descendant. William Bracegirdle was born around 1782 and apprenticed as a fisherman in 1795 under John Mann of Greenwich. As a fisherman, boat builder and businessman Bracegirdle lived and worked in the area throughout his life, a tenant for a time of Ballast Quay owned by Morden College. Much of the text concerns a court case concerning the use of the Quay. An extract of the list of apprenticeship records from St Alfege church showing the names of Master Fishermen and their apprentices 1703-1816 is provided near the end of the volume. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BRACEGIRDLE

Sammlung astronomischer abhandlungen : Beobachtungen und nachrichten nebst register uber die astronomischen Jahrbucher von 1776 bis 1798 und zwey supplement-Banden / Bode, J E 1795 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 52:094

Empire, barbarism, and civilisation : James Cook, William Hodges, and the return to the Pacific /Harriet Guest. Guest, Harriet 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7HODGES:325.3/.4

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

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

American activities in the Central Pacific 1790-1870 : a history, geography and ethnography pertaining to American involvement in the Pacific taken from contemporary newspapers etc 1966-1967 • FOLIO • 8 copies available. 382(73:93/96)"18"

Gazettes of naval and military exploits, from 1794 to 1807. [1807?]. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.48/49"1794/1807"(42:44):094

Captain Cook's computer : the life of William Wales, F.R.S. (1734-1798) /by Wendy Wales. A biography of William Wales FRS (1734-98). Wales, a mathematician and astronomer, was employed in 1765 by the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne at the Royal Observatory Greenwich as a computer, calculating ephemerides that could be used to establish the longitude of a ship, for Maskelyne's Nautical Almanac. Wales was sent by the Royal Society to observe the transit of Venus in 1769 from Hudson Bay and as a result of his work there was invited to accompany Captain James Cook on his second voyage of discovery (1772-75) on HMS Resolution, tasked with testing Larcum Kendall's K1 chronometer. He became Master of the Royal Mathematical School, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1776, and served as Secretary of the Board of Longitude (1795-98). The author has drawn on Wales's own accounts of his work and travels and provides brief details of the lives of Wales's immediate family and genealogical charts. [2015]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92WALES

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