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The Beagle letters / Charles Darwin ; edited by Frederick Burkhardt ; with an introduction by Janet Browne. Contains all the letters written and received by Charles Darwin during his voyage on HMS Beagle. The letters are published chronologically. The text is illustrated with contemporary watercolour paintings by Conrad Martens, the artist who also travelled on board. The text is also supported by a detailed bibliography and index, brief biographies of the correspondents, details of the location of the letters, and family trees for the Wedgwood and Darwin families. 2008. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92DARWIN

Uranographia sive astrorum descriptio viginti tabulis ceneis incisa ex recentisfinis et absolutissimis astronomorum observationibus Bode, Joannis Elerti 1801 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

The oriental navigator : or new directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China and New Holland ... 1801 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83(264:267)

The cave of Neptune : a dramatic poem : on the victory gained by the English fleet under the command of Lord Howe in 1794 Holford, Thomas 1801 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:820-1

Plans of the principal harbours, bays, and roads, in St George's and the Bristol channels Morris, Lewis 1801 • ATLAS-FOL • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(26:429)"18"

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

Address of the Astronomer Royal to the individual members of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1855, October 18: and Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1856, June 7. Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1855-6 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 520.1:094

Account of observations of the transit of Venus, 1874, December 8, made under the authority of the British Government and of the reduction of the observations / edited by Sir George Biddell Airy Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1881 • RARE-FOLIO • 3 copies available. 521.842-13

The storm : a drama in three acts Holford, Thomas 1801 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-2

Berthier's dream at Rome, in 1798 Holford, Thomas 1801 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-1

A voyage to Botany Bay : together with his life and trial and the sequel to his voyage Barrington, George 1969 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.51(944)

Rough waters : American involvement with the Mediterranean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries /edited by Silvia Marzagalli, James R. Sofka and John J. McCusker. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49:382(73:262)

Captain Elliot and the founding of Hong Kong : pearl of the orient /Jon Bursey. "On 26 January 1841 the British took possession of the island of Hong Kong. The Convention of Chuanbi was immediately repudiated by both the British and Chinese governments and their respective negotiators recalled. For the British this was Captain Charles Elliot, whose actions in China became mired in controversy for years to come. Who was Captain Elliot, and how did he find himself at the center of this debate? This book traces Elliot's career from his early life through his years in the Royal Navy before focusing on his role in the First Anglo-Chinese War and the founding of what became the Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Elliot has been demonized by China and for the most part poorly regarded by historians. This book shows him to have been a man ahead of his time whose views on slavery, armed conflict, the role of women and racial equality often placed him at variance with contemporary attitudes. Twenty years after the return of Hong Kong to China, his legacy is still with us."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92ELLIOT:951.231.7

The Atlantic slave trade : volume I : origins - 1600 /edited by Jeremy Black. This book consists of academic essays chronologically exploring the origins and development of the Atlantic slave trade pre-1600. There is an essay examining the serfdom origins which triggered a movement towards forced labour, slavery and, in turn, the Atlantic slave trade. Some essays include tables with numerical data, for example, the growth in trade from 1451-1600 and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1801-67. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)".../16"

The destruction of the Boyne, first rate man of war, of ninety-eight guns, by a most rapid and tremendous fire, on May 4 1795... Hunter, J 1801 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:656.61.085.3Boyne

The little sea torch : or a true guide for coasting pilots ... England, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Sicily ... Malta, Corsica, Sardinia ... the coast of Barbary ... tr (rev) 1801 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:527.83(4)"18"

Address of the Astronomer Royal to the individual members of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1865, October 21: and Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory Greenwich : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1866, June 2. Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1866 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 520.1:094

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

Allgemeine beschreibung und nachweisung der gestirne nebst verzeichniss der geraden aufsteigung und abweichung von 17240 sternen, doppelsternen, nebelflecken und sternhaufen Bode, J.E. 1801 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

An essay on the malignant pestilential fever, introduced into the West Indian islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793, 1794, 1795, and 1796 Chisholm, C 1801 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:616.9(729)"17"

Upon the visitation of neutral vessels under convoy : or, an impartial examination of a judgment pronounced by the English Court of Admiralty, the 11th June 1799, in the case of the Swedish convoy Schlegel, J F W 1801 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:341.35

Aequations longitudinis Lunae ex occvltationibvs fixarvm castigatae Triesnecker, Francisco de Paula 1801 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Select plans of the principal cities, harbours, forts etc in the world Luffman, John 1801 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:911.375(100)

A Treatise of the relative rights and duties of beligerent and neutral powers, in maritime affairs : in which the principles of armed neutralities, and the opinions of Hubner and Schlegel are fully discussed Ward, Robert 1801 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:341.35

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