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His Majesty's Vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801 Grant, James 1803 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(944)"1800/1802"

Australia circumnavigated : the voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 /edited by 'This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders's fair journals from the circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the 'Memoir' he wrote to accompany his journals and charts. These are among the most important primary texts in Australian maritime history and European voyaging in the Pacific. Flinders was the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia. He was also largely responsible for giving Australia its name. His voyage was supported by the Admiralty, the Navy Board, the East India Company and the patronage of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Banks ensured that the Investigator expedition included scientific gentlemen to document Australia's flora, fauna, geology and landscape features. The botanist Robert Brown, botanical painter Ferdinand Bauer, landscape artist William Westall and the gardener Peter Good were all members of the voyage. After landfall at Cape Leeuwin, Flinders sailed anti-clockwise round the whole continent, returning to Port Jackson when the ship became unseaworthy. After a series of misfortunes, including a shipwreck and a long detention at the Ile de France (now Mauritius), Flinders returned to England in 1810. He devoted the last four years of his life to preparing A Voyage to Terra Australis, published in two volumes, and an atlas. Flinders died on 19 July 1814 at the age of forty. The fair journals edited here comprise a daily log with full nautical information and 'remarks' on the coastal landscape, the achievements of previous navigators in Australian waters, encounters with Aborigines and Macassan trepangers, naval routines, scientific findings and Flinders's surveying and charting. The journals also include instructions for the voyage and some additional correspondence. The 'Memoir' explains Flinders' methodology in compiling his journals and charts and the purpose and content of his surveys. This edition has a substantial introduction and textual introduction complemented with photographic excerpts from Flinders's survey sheets, maps of the voyage and illustrations of the botanical and artistic work undertaken.'--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22HAKLUYT

The letters of Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of St Vincent whilst First Lord of the Admiralty 1801-1804 Jervis, John 1922 • BOOK • 4 copies available. 92Jervis

A voyage around the world in the years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 and 1804 : in which the author visited Turnbull, John 1805 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(94/96)"1800/1804"

questions proposed to the candidates for the degree of bachelor of arts at the general examinations, from 1801 University of Cambridge 1821. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51(425.9):094

failure in Britain in 1799 and 1800 and the British decision to send a naval force to the Baltic early in 1801 Neumann, J 1992 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.49(42:47)

Steel's naval chronologist of the war, from its commencement in Feb. 1793, to its conclusion in 1801. Steel, David, [1802?] • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49"1793/1801":094

Administering the Empire, 1801-1968 : a guide to the records of the Colonial Office in the National Archives "The handbook on colonial records at The National Archives prepared by Mandy Banton serves at least three important and useful purposes. First and foremost it is a new and extensively revised guide that takes fully into account records that have become accessible in recent decades, together with corrected and expanded lists of earlier eras. It covers the Colonial Office's relations with other government departments, including the Admiralty, the Cabinet Office, the Foreign Office, the Prime Minister's Office, the Treasury and the War Office.[...]A second function of the guide is historical perspective and comprehensive coverage of complicated and extensive lists of documents. Those using the handbook will be able to trace records on the evolution of the War and Colonial Office of the early 19th century and the creation of the geographical departments. [...] The third useful aspect of the handbook is its range and depth of historical detail. It is a historical work in its own right. It comments usefully on the 'informal' as well as the formal British empire and reveals the extent to which the Colonial Office was involved in the affairs of China, Argentina and Egypt, even listing, in Foreign Office records, the papers of Lord Cromer. It defines as well as guides. [...]"--Adapted from the Foreword. c2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 930.25

Voyages aux regions equinoxiales du nouveau continent, Fait en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804, Humbolt, Alexandre 1814-1825 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 910.4(7)

Steel's naval chronologist of the war, from its commencement in Feb 1793, to its conclusion in 1801 / Steel, David, 1802? • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:355.49"1793/1801"(4)

Captain and commanding a squadron of HM's ships and vessels on an expedition to Egypt in the years 1801 Bartholomew, D E ca1803 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.43(267.5)

des mers d'Afrique, fait par ordre du gouvernement, pendant les annees neuf et dix de la Republique (1801 Bory de St-Vincent, Jean Baptiste Genevieve Marcellin 1804 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(6)"1801/1802"

sur les corvettes le geographe, le naturaliste, et la goelette le casuarina, pendant les annees 1800, 1801 Peron, M.F. 1807 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 910.4(9):094

Gidrografichesklya karta chasti Rossiiskoi Imperii 1801 • ATLAS-FOL • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(26:47)"18"

Navy-Board... on investigating the account of expenditure for the Romney and Sensible at Calcutta in 1801 Popham, Home Riggs, Sir ca1804 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Romney

undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801 Flinders, Matthew 1814 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(93)"1801/1803"

Bonaparte in Egypt Herold, J Christopher 2005 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1798/1801"(62)

Millions for defence : the subscription warships of 1798 Leiner, Frederick C 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1798"(73)

By the banks of the Neva : chapters from the lives and careers of the British in eighteenth-century Russia Cross, Anthony 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 947.023"17"

Politics and culture in eighteenth-century Russia : collected essays de Madariaga, Isabel 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 947"17/18"

The commissioner's daughter : the story of Elizabeth Proby and Admiral Chichagov Woods, Joanna 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Chichagov, V

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli pirates : the forgotten war that changed American history /Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast routinely captured American sailors and held them as slaves, demanding ransom and tribute payments far beyond what the new country could afford. Over the previous fifteen years, as a diplomat and then as secretary of state, Jefferson had tried to work with the Barbary states (Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco). Unfortunately, he found it impossible to negotiate with people who believed their religion justified the plunder and enslavement of non-Muslims. These rogue states would show no mercy -- at least not while easy money could be made by extorting America, France, England, and other powers. So President Jefferson decided to move beyond diplomacy. He sent the U.S. Navy's new warships and a detachment of marines to blockade Tripoli -- launching the Barbary Wars and beginning America's journey toward future superpower status. [2015]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1799/1805"(64:73)

Serenissimae potentissimae ac invictissimae Russiarum Imperatricis Elisabetae sacrum diem Academia Scientiarum publico conventu die vi. Septembris solemnibus sermonibus celebrat. 1751. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 521:094

Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy / George Biddell Airy ; edited by Wilfred Airy. "Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-92) was a prominent mathematician and astronomer. [...] His many achievements include important work on planetary orbits, the calculation of the mean density of the earth and the establishment of the prime meridian at Greenwich. He was also consulted by the government on a wide range of issues and projects, serving on the weights and measures commission and the railway gauge commission, acting as an advisor for the repair of Big Ben and the laying of the Atlantic cable. His autobiography, edited by his son Wilfred, comprises ten chapters and is drawn from the astronomer's own records of the scientific work he carried out at Greenwich Observatory along with his printed reports and correspondence."--Provided by the publisher. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92AIRY

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