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Captain Foote's vindication of his conduct when captain of His Majesty's Ship Sea-horse, and senior officer in the Bay of Naples in the summer of 1799 : with observations on the Rev J S Clarke's and John McArthur's Life of Lord Nelson; and a previous correspondence on that subject Foote, Edward James 1810 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Foote

A New and complete epitome of practical navigation containing all necessary instructions for keeping a ship's reckoning at sea, with the most approved methods of ascertaining the latitude... and longitude... including a journal of a voyage from London to Madeira... Norie, J. W.-(John William), 1810 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527

Untersuchungen uber die scheinbare und wahre Bahn des im Jahre 1807 erschienenen grossen Kometen / von F. W. Bessel, Professor der Astronomie in Konigsberg Bessel, F. W.-(Friedrich Wilhelm), 1810 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 52.092.64:094

Esposizione di un nuovo metodo di costruire le tavole astronomiche applicato alle tavole del sole / di Francesco Carlini. Carlini, Francesco, 1810 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 527.4(083.5):094

Thâeorie des courbes et des surfaces du second ordre : prâecâedâee des principes fondamentaux de la gâeomâetrie analytique /par J.-L. Boucharlat Boucharlat, J.-L.-(Jean-Louis), 1810. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 514:094

Alejandro Malaspina : portrait of a visionary "Examining the ideas, political views, and ambitions of an extraordinary navigator, John Kendrick takes us on a voyage across the Pacific via South America, the Philippines, New Zealand, Australia, the Tonga Islands, and North America, chronicling the life of Alejandro Malaspina. Malaspina's Pacific voyage of 1789 was the last and most important of his career - a five-year scientific and political examination of the Spanish colonies in the Americas and the Philippines. On his return, Malaspina was commissioned to author a report that would help Spain establish itself as a modern enlightened state. Malaspina's proposal that the king dismiss all his ministers and replace them with individuals who shared his visionary plan resulted in an unanimous vote by the State Council that the plan was seditious and Malaspina was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the fortress of San Anton. At the urging of Napoleon he was released after serving eight years and was exiled to Italy, where he died in 1810, just as the revolts of the Spanish colonies in the Americas were starting - as he had predicted."--Provided by the publisher. 1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(265/266)"1789"

The Complete navigator : or an easy and familiar guide to the theory and practice of navigation, with all the requisite tables Mackay, Andrew 1810 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:527

The narrative of Robert Adams, a Barbary captive : a critical edition /edited by Charles Hansford Adams. "First published in 1816, The narrative of Robert Adams is an account of the adventures of Robert Adams, an African American seaman who survives shipwreck, slavery and brutal efforts to convert him to Islam, before finally being ransomed to the British Consul. In London, Adams is discovered by the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa, which publishes his story, including a fantastical account of a trip to Timbuctoo. Adams's story is accompanied by contemporary essays and notes that place his experience in the context of European exploration of Africa at the time"--Preface. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Adams, Robert

Armstrong's river empire : Tyne shipyards that supplied the world, 1852-1948 /Dick Keys and Ken Smith. "The exciting story of Newcastle's Elswick and Low Walker shipyards, the icebreakers, train ferries, and warships that steamed from the Tyne to all parts of the world from the 1850s until after World War Two. This new book examines the achievements of Lord W.G. Armstrong and of Charles Mitchell, ingenious and entrpreneurial shipbuilders and engineers who established the Tyne's reputation for soundly built ships. With many archive photographs, from the 1860s to the 1940s, this book comprises a complete history of the two shipyards. This new book celebrates the bicentenary of Lord Armstrong's birth in 1810. Armstrong's River Empire includes a 12 page colour section illustrating the exotic cards produced to celebrate the launches of many of these ships. They have rarely been reproduced before."--Provided by the publisher 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12ARMSTRONG

The art of a nation : three centuries of Irish painting /Jonathan Benington [and others] ; edited by William Laffan. An illustrated catalogue for an exhibition of Irish paintings from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries held at Pyms Gallery in London. The catalogue comprises 30 artists: Charles Collins (c. 1700-1744); Judith Lewis (1711-1781); Nathaniel Hone the Elder (1718-1784); Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1739-1806); George Mullins (active 1756-1775/6); Matthew William Peters (1741-1814); Joseph Wilson (active 1756-d. 1793); John Boyne (c. 1750-1810); George Chinnery (1774-1852); James Arthur O'Connor (1792-1841); William Henry Maguire (1806-1853), Irish School (1837); Nathaniel Hone (1831-1917); John Butler Yeats (1839-1922); Howard Helmick (1845-1907); Sarah Purser (1848-1943); Sir John Lavery (1856-1941); Mildred Anne Butler (1858-1914); William Henry Bartlett (1858-1914); Walter Frederick Osborne (1859-1903); Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940); Grace Henry (1868-1953); Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957); Paul Henry (1876-1958); Sir William Orpen (1878-1931); William John Leech (1881-1968); Mary Swanzy (1882-1978); Frederick Edward McWilliam (1909-1992); Colin Middleton (1910-1983); and William Scott (1913-1989). 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 75(415)

Discoverers of the universe : William and Caroline Herschel /Michael Hoskin. This biography traces William and Caroline Herschel's many extraordinary contributions to astronomy, shedding new light on their productive but complicated relationship, and setting their scientific achievements in the context of their personal struggles, larger-than-life ambitions, bitter disappointments, and astonishing triumphs.--Book jacket. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HERSCHEL

The victory of seapower : winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814 /Richard Woodman "The victory at Trafalgar marked the beginning of nine years of expansion and domination by the Royal Navy right across the globe. This book charts the events of those years, including the Battle of San Domingo in 1806, the attack on Copenhagen in 1807 and the capture of the French base on Mauritius in 1810. Also covered is the Navy's crucial support of Wellington's army in the Peninsula War. Thematic sections of the book feature the skills of the seaman and the lives of prisoners of war. The prints and drawings collection of the National Maritime Museum is the source for the 300 contemporary illustrations."--Provided by the publisher. 1998 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 355.49"1806/1814"(42:44)

Knowledge and colonialism : eighteenth-century travellers in South Africa /by Siegfried Huigen. Huigen, Siegfried 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.3/.4(83)"17"

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"

European slave trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850 / Richard B. Allen. "Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves to ports throughout the Indian Ocean world. The activities of the British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese traders who operated in the Indian Ocean demonstrate that European slave trading was not confined largely to the Atlantic but must now be viewed as a truly global phenomenon. European slave trading and abolitionism in the Indian Ocean also led to the development of an increasingly integrated movement of slave, convict, and indentured labor during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the consequences of which resonated well into the twentieth century. Richard B. Allen's magisterial work dramatically expands our understanding of the movement of free and forced labor around the world. Drawing upon extensive archival research and a thorough command of published scholarship, Allen challenges the modern tendency to view the Indian and Atlantic oceans as self-contained units of historical analysis and the attendant failure to understand the ways in which the Indian Ocean and Atlantic worlds have interacted with one another. In so doing, he offers tantalizing new insights into the origins and dynamics of global labor migration in the modern world."--Provided by the publisher. 2014 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326

An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean : with an original grammar and vocabulary of their language compiled and arranged from the extensive communications of Mr William Mariner, several years resident in those islands by John Martin, M.D. /edited by Nigel Statham and Ian C. Campbell. "John Martin (1789-1869) was a London-based, Edinburgh-educated physician interested in anthropological matters. This is his only book. He was inspired to write it by a chance encounter with its subject, William Mariner (1791-1853) who spent four years (1806-1810) in Tonga, in the South Pacific, one of the earliest European residents at a time before European influence disturbed or modified that society. Mariner, an extraordinarily mature and perceptive youth, became thoroughly imbued with Tongan language and culture as the adopted son of the most powerful chief in Tonga. Martin's intelligent engagement with Mariner resulted in a compelling narrative and a comprehensive account of Tongan society which became a classic. Often celebrated as an extraordinary real-life adventure story, it is a pioneering work of anthropology, and for 200 years it has been a primary and authoritative source for research into Tongan history and culture"--Provided by publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 305.899/482

Naval chronicle : contemporary record of the Royal Navy at war /ed. by Nicholas Tracy. 1999. • BOOK • 5 copies available. 05Naval Chronicle

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"

Dark seas : the Battle of Cape Matapan /[foreword by Prince Philip ; introduction by J E Harrold]. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.542.1"1941"

Matthew Flinders, maritime explorer of Australia / Kenneth Morgan. A detailed biography of Matthew Flinders (1774-1814). Flinders was the first naval commander to complete a detailed circumnavigation of Australia while in command of the Investigator, a voyage supported and promoted by Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Earlier in his career, Flinders developed his navigational skills as a midshipman on Captain William Bligh's voyage on the Providence and while in command of the Norfolk, he and George Bass circumnavigated Tasmania (Van Dieman's Land) for the first time. This text sets his achievements in the wider context of Cook's discoveries and Pacific exploration and focuses on the nautical, geographic and other scientific work undertaken during the voyage by Flinders and the 'scientific gentlemen', who accompanied him. Flinders discovered and recorded many offshore islands around the Australian coast, found a navigable route through the Torres Strait and the Great Barrier Reef and undertook the first thorough survey of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Returning to England, he was held hostage at the Ile de France (Mauritius) for six years delaying the publication of A Voyage to Terra Australis and his atlas of maps until 1810. Flinders is credited with popularising the use of the term Australia and is commemorated throughout the country. The book has detailed notes and bibliography. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FLINDERS

Romanticism and colonialism : writing and empire, 1780-1830 /edited by Tim Fulford and Peter J. Kitson. "The relationships between literary discourse and colonial politics have been the subject of much critical investigation since the publication of Edward Said's orientalism. Yet although much has been written about the forms these relationships took in the early modern period and in the nineteenth century, the Romantic period has been comparatively neglected. This volume sets out to redress that imbalance by investigating Romantic writing in its relationship to the peoples and places with which the British were increasingly coming into contact. Topics examined include slavery, race, climate, tropical disease, religion and commodity production; a wide range of writers are discussed from Edmund Burke to Hannah More, William Blake to Phyllis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano to Mary Shelley, Thomas Clarkson to Lord Byron. Together the essays constitute a broad assessment of Romanticism's engagement with India, Africa, the West Indies, South America and the Middle East."--Provided by the publisher. 1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.36

Black experience and the empire / Philip D. Morgan, editor and Sean Hawkins, editor. "This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style. The black experience varied greatly across space and over time. Accordingly, thirteen substantive essays and a scene-setting introduction range from West Africa in the sixteenth century, through the history of the slave trade and slavery down to the 1830s, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century participation of blacks in the empire as workers, soldiers, members of colonial elites, intellectuals, athletes, and musicians. No people were more uprooted and dislocated; or traveled more within the empire; or created more of a trans-imperial culture. In the crucible of the British empire, blacks invented cultural mixes that were precursors to our modern selves - hybrid, fluid, ambiguous, and constantly in motion."--Provided by the publisher. 2004. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 941-44

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

Traite elementaire d'astronomie physique / par J.-. Biot, membre de l'Institut de France, etc., avec des additions relatives a l'astronomie nautique, par M. de Rossel Biot, Jean-Baptiste, 1810-11 • RARE-BOOK • 5 copies available. 52:094

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