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The means of finding the longitude at sea, gradually developed, discovered, and demonstrated in four astronomical, geographical, nautical, historical, mathematical, and mechanical dissertations
1808 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available.
094:528.282
An appeal to the public: stating Mr Thomas Earnshaw's claim to the original invention of the improvements in his timekeepers, their superior going in numerous voyages ... and his consequent right to national reward / [by Thomas Earnshaw].
1808. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
094:528.282
Humanitarian governance and the British antislavery world system / Maeve Ryan.
2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
306.3/620941
Virginia in the War of 1812 / Christopher M. Bonin.
[2018] • BOOK • 1 copy available.
973.5/23
Alexander von Humboldt : Eine wissenschaftliche biographie /im verein mit R. Avâe-Lallemant, J.V. Carus, A. Dove, H. W. Dove, J. W. Ewald, A. H. R. Grisebach, J. Lowenberg, O. Peschel, G. H. Wiedmann, W. Wundt bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Karl Bruhns, Professor und Director der sternwarte in Leipzig
1872. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
92HUMBOLDT:094
The post-captain, or, The wooden walls well manned : comprehending a view of naval society and manners /by the author of 'Edward, ' 'A view of society in France, ' &c.
1808. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
820-3
Traite d'optique, par Lacaille : revu, corrigâe et augmentâe particuliáerement de la mesure de la râefraction, de son explication physique, de la marche des images dans les instrumens d'optique, des lunettes achromatiques, de l'iris, et de quelques probláemes intâeressans /par plusieurs âeláeves de de l'Ecole polytechnique
1808. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
535:094
Aquatint worlds : travel, print, and empire, 1770-1820 /Douglas Fordham.
2019. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
769.922
Regulations and instructions relating to His Majesty's service at sea / established by His Majesty in council.
1808. • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available.
094:355.51(42)"1808"
Naval power and expeditionary warfare : peripheral campaigns and new theatres of naval warfare /edited by Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine.
2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.462
War, empire and slavery, 1770-1830 / edited by Richard Bessel, Nicholas Guyatt and Jane Rendall.
2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.01:326(4-44)"1770/1830"
Oeuvres d'Archimáede / traduites littâeralement, avec un commentaire, par F. Peyrard ; suivies d'un mâemoire du traducteur sur un nouveau miroir ardent, et d'un autre mâemoire de M. Delambre, sur l'arithmâetique des Grecs.
1808 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
51(038):094
Minutes of a court martial holden on board HMS Gladiator in Portsmouth Harbour, on Wednesday the 26th day of July 1809 and continued by adjournment till Friday the 4th day of August, on the trial of the Right Honourable James Lord Gambier ...
1809 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:344.4"1809"Gambier
Bibliotheque universelle des voyages ...
1808 • RARE-BOOK • 6 copies available.
910.4:016
Seapower, technology and trade : studies in Turkish maritime history /editors: Dejanirah Couto, Feza Gunergun, Maria Pia Pedani.
2014. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
355.49(560)
The young sea officer's sheet anchor : or, a key to the leading of rigging and to practical seamanship
1808 • RARE-BOOK • 5 copies available.
629.12.015.64:094
Free slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean civil war / Joseph Kaifala.
2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
966.4
War, empire and slavery, 1770-1830 / edited by Richard Bessel, Nicholas Guyatt and Jane Rendall.
2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.01:326(4-44)"1770/1830"
HMS Pickle : the swiftest ship in Nelson's Trafalgar fleet /Peter Hore ; foreword by Andrew Lambert.
2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
623.826PICKLE
The role of naval bases in maritime operations in the Mediterranean during the eighteenth century, and Dockyards and naval bases in North America, the Atlantic and the Caribbean : Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society Volume 15 September 2021; Conferences held at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich 24 March 2018 and 30 March 2019.
2021. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
The British slave trade : abolition, parliament and people : including the illustrated catalogue of the parliamentary exhibition in Westminster Hall, 23 May - 23 September 2007 /edited by Stephen Farrell, Melanie Unwin and James Walvin.
c2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.8
The British Navy in the Baltic / John D. Grainger.
2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.49"800/1950"(42)
Slavery hinterland : transatlantic slavery and continental Europe, 1680-1850 /edited by Felix Brahm and Eve Rosenhaft.
2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
306.3/62094
The later correspondence of George III
1966-1970 • BOOK • 5 copies available.
92George III(044)
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