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Letters from Mr Fletcher Christian containing a narrative of the transactions on board His Majesty's ship Bounty before and after the mutiny, with his subsequent voyages and travels in South America
1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:355.133"1789"
An Universal dictionary of the marine : or a copious explanation of the technical terms and phrases employed in the construction, equipment, furniture, machinery, movements, and military operations of a ship, illustrated with variety of original designs of shipping, in different situations; together with separate views of their masts, sails, yards and rigging. To which is annexed, a translation of the French sea-terms and phrases, collected from the works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, etc. / By William Falconer, author of The Shipwreck.
1780. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
094:629.12(038)
Captain Francis Crozier : Last man standing? /Michael Smith.
2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92CROZIER
The Universal Navigator, and modern tourist : comprehending authentic and circumstantial narratives of the most interesting voyages and travels ...
1805 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
92Wilson
Aphroditographische fragmente, zur genauern kenntniss des planeten Venus : sammt beygefugter beschreibung des Lilienthalischen 27 fussigen telescops, mit practischen bemerkungen und beobachtungen uber die grosse der schopfung
1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
52.092:094
Report from the Committee appointed to enquire into the best mode of shipping of the Port of London ...
1796 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
094:342.537
Prospectus and specimen of an history of marine architecture ...
1796 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available.
094:629.12
An authentic narrative of a voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery, during the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780, in search of a North-West passage ...
1784 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:910.4(93/96)"1776/1780"
An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour
1773 • RARE-FOLIO • 3 copies available.
094:910.4(93/96)"1764/1771"
Navies of the Napoleonic era / Otto von Pivka.
1980. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.49"1792/1815"
Toussaint Louverture : a revolutionary life /Philippe Girard.
2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92LOUVERTURE
Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the Polar expeditions performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom ... in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28 / Beechey, F W. 1831.
1831 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available.
094:910.4(987)"1825/1828"
Journal du voyage de M. le Marquis de Courtanvaux : sur la frâegate l'Aurore, pour essayer par ordre de l'Acadâemie, plusieurs instrumens relatifs áa la longitude ; Mis en ordre par M. Pingrâe ... nommâe par l'Acadâemie pour coopâerer áa la vâerification desdits instrumens, de concert avec M. Messier.
M. DCCLXVIII [1768]. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
910.4(261)"1768":094
A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the discovery of copper mines, a North West Passage, etc, in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 and 1772
1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:910.4(712.2)"1769/1772"
La sphere, poeme en huit chants, : qui contient les elemens de la sphere celeste et terrestre, avec des principes d'astronomie physique; accompagne de notes, et suivi d'une notice des poemes Grecs, Latins et Francois qui traitent de quelque partie de l'astronomie
1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
52.092:094
Suite du traitâe des montres áa longitudes : contenant la construction des montres verticales portatives, & celle des horloges horisontales pour servir dans les plus longues traversâees /par Ferdinand Berthoud.
1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
528.282:094
A letter to the Court of Directors on the sale of commands and remuneration of the captains of the East India Company's shipping, containing a proposition for accomplishing the same "with the least possible injury to the parties concerned" / by J. Prinsep.
1796. • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available.
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Ceylon and the Dutch 1600-1800
1996 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
949.2(548.7)"16/18"
A narrative of the proceedings of His Majesty's fleet under the command of Earl Howe, from the second of May to the second of June 1794
1796 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available.
094:355.49"1794.06.01"(441.1)
A Narrative of the circumstances which led to fixing the lights in Hasbro' Gatt, the light at the Goodwin, and the proposition for a light near the Sunk Sand
1796 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
094:627.715(426.1)
Terra Australis : Matthew Flinders' great adventures in the circumnavigation of Australia /edited and introduced by Tim Flannery.
2001. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(94)"1796/1803"
A voyage round the world in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV / by George Anson, Esq. (late Lord Anson), Commander in chief of a squadron of his Majesty's ships sent upon an expedition to the South Sea
1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(100)"1740/1744":094
George Charles Smith of Penzance : from Nelson sailor to mission pioneer /Roald Kverndal.
2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92SMITH, GEORGE
Life on the edge : Peter Danckwerts GC MBE FRS, brave, shy, brilliant /by Peter Varey.
2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92DANCKWERTS
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