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British warships in the age of sail, 1793-1817 : design, construction, careers and fates /Rif Winfield. Winfield, Rif. 2010. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)"1793/1817"
The extraordinary journey of David Ingram : an Elizabethan sailor in native North America /Dean Snow. "David Ingram was an ordinary seaman of the Elizabethan age. He served on a slave ship captained by John Hawkins, the Queen's slaver. After sailing first to Africa and then taking enslaved people to sell in the Caribbean, the little fleet was nearly destroyed in a furious battle with the Spanish. Ingram and two other marooned men then walked over 3600 miles from Mexico to New Brunswick in eleven months before being rescued. A dozen years later Ingram was brought in for interrogation by the Queen's spymaster, Francis Walsingham, as investors tried to learn more about America in anticipation of colonization. The contemporary historian Richard Hakluyt soon used the records of the interrogation to publish his version of Ingram's testimony. However, when editing it Hakluyt mistakenly assumed that everything Ingram described about Africa, the Caribbean, and North America applied only to Ingram's long walk through America. For over four centuries, Hakluyt's scrambled publication of 1589 has been ridiculed as the fantastic ramblings of a liar. Examination of the original documents surviving from the interrogation has revealed that Hakluyt was a poor editor, and that Ingram had told the truth about his extraordinary journey. Ingram's story can now be told as he related it, revealing things about Africa and the Americas in the age of European discovery that would otherwise be unknown to history"-- 2023 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.941
De Ruyter Dutch admiral / ed. by Jaap R. Bruijn ... [et al.]. "Was Michiel de Ruyter the greatest sea commander who ever lived? Or simply the greatest sea-commander of the 17th century? Some people see him as the man who saved the Dutch Republic, and ensured its independence. He knew how to fight a sea-battle on the grandest scale. He could also haggle like a canny Dutch merchant, achieving the release of Hungarian clergymen from Spanish captivity and that of Dutch sailors from barbarian imprisonment. Louis XIV, often his opponent, called him 'a man who did honour to humanity'. In this book, nine leading historical authorities, from seven different countries, examine his astonishing career."-- from publisher. 2011. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92RUYTER
Tractatus Astrarii / di Giovanni Dondi dall'Orologio ; a cura di Aldo Bullo. A book of medieval mechanical engineering intended primarily for students of astronomy, watchmakers and technicians. The modern sketches added at the end of the book allow readers to more easily follow what is written by Giovanni Dondi on the motions of the planets. Vol. 2 is a facsimile of the original manuscript. [2010]. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 681.11
Captain Cook's second voyage : the journals of Lieutenants Elliott and Pickersgill /by John Elliott and Richard Pickersgill ; edited and introduced by Christine Holmes. Elliott, John, 1984. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(93/96)"1772/1775"
Dâeveloppement nouveau de la partie âelâementaire des mathâematiques : prise dans toute son âetendue /par Louis Bertrand. Bertrand, Louis, 1778. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 51:094
Warships of the Napoleonic Era : design, development and deployment /Robert Gardiner. Gardiner, Robert 2011. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.82"1793/1815"
The Sailing Ship 'Eastminster 1876-1888 & Captain Daniel Rowland Rees 1836-1888 : Wales, Saint Vincent, Burma, Australia /Compiled by Ivor Davies. Davies, Ivor, 2018. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123.1EASTMINSTER
The wine-dark sea O'Brian, Patrick, 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-31
The Royal Navy 1793-1815 / Gregory Fremont-Barnes. Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1793/1815"(42)
Psychiatry and empire / edited by Sloan Mahone and Megan Vaughan. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 616.89:325.3(44+59+6)
A very brilliant affair : the Battle of Queenston Heights, 1812 /Robert Malcomson. Malcomson, Robert. 2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1812/1815"(42:73)
Send it by semaphore : the old telegraphs during the wars with France /Howard Mallinson. Mallinson, Howard. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.72"1793/1815"
Cumby of the Bellerophon : a hero of Trafalgar Jackson, Hilary W 1997? • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.49"1805"(42:44)
Investigation of a new rule for correcting a lunar distance, and of the construction of the requisite tables. Gordon, James. 1836 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527(083.5):094
The far side of the world O'Brian, Patrick, 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-31
Sharpe's siege : Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814 /Bernard Cornwell. Cornwell, Bernard. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3
From trafalgar to the Chesapeake: adventures of an Officer in Nelson's Navy. Lovell, W 2003 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124(42)"17/18"
Travels, explorations and empires : writings from the era of imperial expansion 1770-1835 2001 • BOOK • 8 copies available. 910.4(6)"1790/1832"
Catalogue of the portolan charts and atlases in the British Library : based on a detailed physical inspection completed on site during the years 2000 and 2001 /Prepared by Richard L. Pflederer. Pflederer, Richard L. 2002. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 017.1(421.3)BL
An ephemerides of the coelestiall motions for VII years, beginning Anno 1652, ending Anno 1658 : diligently calculated according to the doctrine of Harmonicon Coeleste, and applyed to the horizon of the famous city of London /by Vincent Wing, philomath Wing, Vincent 1652 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:524.3(059.3)
The mammoth book of life before the mast : sailors' eyewitness accounts from the age of fighting ships Lewis, Jon E Jan 2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92:359"1794/1815"
Anglo-Saxons in the Mediterranean : commerce, politics and ideas (XVII-XX centuries) /edited by Carmel Vassallo & Michela D'Angelo. International Congress of Maritime History. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 38(42)"16/19"
A great and glorious victory : new perspectives on the Battle of Trafalgar /edited by Richard Harding. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1805"