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De la mesure du temps : par les horloges dans l'usage civil ou exposition des motifs qui doivent faire adopter, dans l'usage de la mesure du temps par les horloges, le temps egal, appelle temps moyen, au lieu du temps variable du soleil, appelle temps vrai our apparent /par Ferdinand Berthoud
1797 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
529.7
Geometrical and graphical essays : containing a general description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling, and perspective : with many new practical problems : illustrated by thirty-four copper plates /by the late George Adams, mathematical instrument maker to His Majesty, &c.
1797. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
514:094
Nelson : the sword of Albion /John Sugden.
2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92NELSON
Sons of the waves : the common seaman in the heroic age of sail, 1740-1840 /Stephen Taylor.
2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
359.0092241
A photographic history of the Orient Line / Chris Frame, Rachelle Cross, Rob Henderson and Doug Cremer
2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
347.792ORIENT
Jack Tar in history : essays in the history of maritime life and labour /edited by Colin Howell and Richard J. Twomey.
1991. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
387.5/09
Hornblower's historical shipmates : the young gentlemen of Pellew's Indefatigable /Heather Noel-Smith.
2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.335.34
Medicina nautica : an essay on the diseases of seamen
1804 • RARE-BOOK • 6 copies available.
094:613.68
The problem of piracy in the early modern world : maritime predation, empire, and the construction of authority at sea /edited by John Coakley, C. Nathan Kwan and David Wilson.
2025. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
364.16/4
Biographia navalis : or impartial memoirs of the lives and characters of officers of the Navy of Great Britain from the year 1660 to the present times
2002 • BOOK • 6 copies available.
92:355.33
Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World : the Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700-1850 /edited by Richard Harding and Agustâin Guimerâa.
2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.133.4(4)"1700/1850"
Tales from the Captain's Log : from Captain Cook to Charles Darwin, Blackbeard and Nelson - accounts of great events at sea from those who were there
2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(100)
The East India Company at home, 1757-1857 / edited by Margot Finn and Kate Smith.
2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
747.0941
The naval history of Great Britain / W. M. James ; new introductions by Andrew Lambert.
2001. • BOOK • 6 copies available.
355.49"1793/1827"(42)
Steel's original and correct list of the Royal Navy : hired- armed vessels, gun-boats, revenue and excise cutters and packets, with their commanders and stations. To which are added the following lists, etc.
• JOURNAL • 43 copies available.
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