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Surveyor of the sea : the life and voyages of Captain George Vancouver Anderson, Bern 1960 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.47(711/712)

Nelson's band of brothers : lives and memorials /Peter Hore. Nelson gave the name 'band of brothers' to the officers who had commanded ships of his fleet at the battle of the Nile in 1798. This work provides biographical summaries of all those officers who had commanded ships or squadrons in Nelson's fleet fighting under his tactical control at the battles of the Nile (1798), Copenhagen (1801) and Trafalgar (1805). Location details and photographs are also provided of the memorials to these men, and the work is illustrated throughout with photographic plates. 2015. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92:355.33(42)"17/18"

Progress in underwater science: proceedings of the 12th symposium Underwater Association Symposium 12th : 1798 1979 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 57(26)

The prizes of war : the naval prize system in the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815 Hill, Richard 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49 "1793/1815"(42:44)

War memories : the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in modern European culture /edited by Alan Forrest, âEtienne Franðcois and Karen Hagemann. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940"1793/1815":32.019.5

Enlightenment travel and British identities : Thomas Pennant's tours of Scotland and Wales /Mary-Ann Constantine "Thomas Pennant of Downing, Flintshire (1726-1798), naturalist, antiquarian and self-styled 'Curious Traveller', published accounts of his pioneering travels in Scotland and Wales to wide acclaim between 1769 and 1784, directly inspiring Dr Johnson, James Boswell and hundreds of subsequent tourists. A keen observer and cataloguer of plants, birds, minerals and animals, Pennant corresponded with a trans-continental network of natural scientists (Linnaeus, Simon Pallas, Joseph Banks, Gilbert White), and was similarly well-connected with leading British antiquarians (William Borlase, Francis Grose, Richard Gough). Frequently cited as witness or authority across a wide range of disciplines, Pennant's texts have seldom been themselves the focus of critical attention. There is as yet no biography of Pennant, nor any edition of his prolific correspondence with many of the leading minds of the European Enlightenment. The 'Tours' were widely read and much imitated. As annotated copies reveal, readers were far from passive in their responses to the text, and 'local knowledge' would occasionally be summoned to challenge or correct them. But Pennant indisputably helped bring about a richer, more complex understanding of the multiple histories and cultures of Britain at a time when 'Britishness' was itself a fragile and developing concept. Because the 'Tours' drew on a vast network of informants (often incorporating material wholesale), they are, as texts, fascinatingly multi-voiced: many of the period's political tensions run through them. This volume of eleven essays seeks to address the comparative neglect of Pennant's travel writing by bringing together researchers from literary criticism, art history, Celtic studies, archaeology and natural history. Attentive to the visual as well as textual aspects of his topographical enquiries, it demonstrates how much there is to be said about the cross-currents (some pulling in quite contrary directions) in Pennant's work. In so doing they rehabilitate a neglected aspect of the Enlightenment in relation to questions of British identity, offering a new assessment of an important chapter in the development of domestic travel writing."--Provided by publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92PENNANT

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

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

Experiments to determine the density of the earth / by Henry Cavendish Cavendish, Henry. 1798. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 528.2:094

The despatches of Molyneux Shuldham, Vice-Admiral of the Blue and Commander-in-Chief of His Britannic Majesty's ships in North America, January-July, 1776 Shuldham, Molyneux, 1913 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1776"

Britannia's palette : the arts of naval victory /Nicholas Tracy. Tracy, Nicholas, c2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.044(41)

In search of an admiral / by Rosalind Hadden. Hadden, Rosalind 2013. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92SHULDHAM

A narrative of the death of Captain James Cook : to which are added some particulars concerning his life and character, and observations respecting the introduction of the venereal disease into the Sandwich Islands Samwell, David, 1786 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Cook

Nelson : the sword of Albion /John Sugden. The second volume in the author's biography of Horatio Nelson. This volume covers the years 1797-1805, beginning with Nelson's return from the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the loss of his right arm and ending with the aftermath of his death at the Battle of Trafalgar. The text covers both Nelson's naval career and also his personal life and relationships with his wife Fanny and Emma Hamilton, and the purchase of Merton Place. The text is illustrated with photographic plates and supported by detailed notes, bibliography and index. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92NELSON

The logs of the first voyage made with the unceasing aid of steam between England and America, by the Great Western of Bristol / James Hosken, appendix and remarks by Christopher Claxton. Hosken, James, [2011] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123GREAT WESTERN

The man who hunted whales : a tale of Kangaroo Island and a doomed ship /Dorothy M Heinrich. Heinrich, Dorothy M. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.124.722

Camperdown, October 11 1797; Lord Viscount Nelson's over the French, in the Bay of Aboukir, August 1, 1798 Smirke, R 1803. • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 355.49"1794/1798"(084.1)

Positiones mediae stellarum fixarum in zonis regionmontanis : a Besselio inter + 15À et + 45À declinationis observatarum, ad annum 1825 reductae et in catalogum ordinatae /auctore Maximiliano Weisse Weisse, Maksymilian, 1863 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 524-13:094

Alexander Aubert, Esq 1798 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 52

The death of Captain Cook and other writings / by David Samwell ; edited by Martin Fitzpatrick, Nicholas Thomas and Jennifer Newell. Samwell, David, 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SAMWELL:92COOK

Annuaire des longitudes 1798 - 1907 • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.

Annuaire de bureau des logitudes 1798-1922 complete run • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.

A disquisition on the stability of ships Atwood, George 1798 • • 1 copy available. 094:629.12.073

The Times 3 Oct 1798 • RAREPAM-OS • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1798"(621)

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