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An account of the going of Mr John Harrison's watch at the Royal Observatory from May 6th, 1766 to March 4th, 1767 : together with the original observations and calculations of the same /by the Revd. Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal Maskelyne, Nevil, 1767 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:681.113.92

India directory : or directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the interadjacent ports Horsburgh, James 1811-1816 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 527.83(264:267)

A register of ships employed in the service of the Honourable the United East India Company, from the year 1760 to 1810 ... with an appendix ... Hardy, Charles,-Sir, 1811 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:347.71East India:629.123.13

Ships employed in the South Seas trade Jones, A. G. E. 1986 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.123(99)

Letters and important documents relative to the Edystone lighthouse, selected chiefly from the correspondence of Robert Weston ... to which is added a report made to the Lords of the Treasury in 1809 by the Trinity Corporation Weston, Robert Harcourt 1811 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:627.715(423.5)

Introduction a la gâeographie mathâematique et critique, et áa la gâeographie physique / par S.F. Lacroix. Lacroix, S. F.-(Silvestre Franðcois), 1811. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 914:094

Tables nouvelles de Vâenus: d'apráes la thâeorie de M. de La Place, et d'apráes les âelâemens de M. de Lindenau/Calculâees par Mr. Reboul. Reboul, Antoine Joseph. 1811. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 523.42

The life of Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte &c. : illustrated by engravings of the most striking and memorable incidents to which is added a description of the monument erected to his memory in Guildhall /by T.O. Churchill. Churchill, T. O. 1811. • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 92Nelson

Tables baromâetriques portatives, donnant les diffâerences de niveau par une simple soustraction : Avec une instruction contenant l'histoire de la formule baromâetrique; et sa dâemonstration compláete par les simples âelâemens de l'algáebre. A l'usage des ingenieurs, des physiciens, des naturalistes, et de tous les voyageurs /Par M. Biot Biot, Jean-Baptiste, 1811. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.51:094

Remarks relative to the danger attendant on convoys : together with a proposition for the better protection of commerce from sea-risk and capture Gower, Richard Hall 1811 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:656.61.052

The Thames : or graphic illustrations of seats, villas, public buildings, and picturesque scenery on the banks of that noble river Cooke, William Bernard, 1811 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:914.21(282.242)

The naval history of Great Britain / W. M. James ; new introductions by Andrew Lambert. James, William, 2001. • BOOK • 6 copies available. 355.49"1793/1827"(42)

Cribrum arithmeticum : sive, Tabula continens numeros primos, a compositis segregatos, occurrentes in serie numerorum ab unitate progredientium, usque ad decies centena millia, et ultra haec, ad viginti millia (1020000). Numeris compositis, per 2, 3, 5 non dividuis, adscripti sunt divisores simplices, non minimi tantum, sed omnino omnes /confecit Ladislaus Chernac. Chernak, Lâaszlâo, 1811. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 51:094

Leaves from memory's log-book and jottings from old journals Recollections of Rear Admiral Frederick Byng Montresor (1811-1887) covering his naval career, firstly as a midshipman on board the Cambridge, Ramilies, Gloucester, Ocean, Isis, Southampton and HMS Zebra and then as a lieutenant, his duties in the West Indies on the President, Wasp, Magnificent, Forte, Melville, Champion and Winchester. Later chapters cover his command of HMS Pickle, Wanderer, Cygnet, Calypso and Severn. His voyages included passages to the West Indies, South America, Africa, Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand, India, Japan, China and Hong Kong. His encounters with the people he met and his observations on trading patterns are also described. Reflecting on visits in 1832 to New Zealand, Tahiti and Tonga, the author, for example, recollects meeting missionaries such as Henry Williams, Maori, the Tahitian Queen and Royal Family, and the King of Tonga. His many anecdotes include the story of Jack Rio, a former slave turned sailor from Brazil, who after a career of seven years with the Navy was revealed as a woman. Also included is a description of the author's visit to the Pitcairn Islands in the 1860s where he met descendants of the Bounty mutineers. 1887 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124(42)"18"

The life of William Scoresby / by R. E. Scoresby-Jackson. A biography of William Scoresby (1789-1857), whaler, explorer, scientist and clergyman, written by his nephew. Scoresby was the son of whaler William Scoresby. On completing his schooling, he accompanied his father as chief officer on the whaler Resolution and during a voyage with him in 1806 reached the highest northern latitude attained in the eastern hemisphere - a record which stood for 21 years. Attending Edinburgh University, Scoresby studied natural philosophy and chemistry and during a voyage in 1807, he embarked on the study of meterology and the natural history of the polar regions. In 1811 he took over command of the Resolution, continuing his polar studies during his whaling voyages, and in 1822, on his last polar voyage, he surveyed and charted 400 miles of the east coast of Greenland. In 1819 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 1824 a Fellow of the Royal Society. An active member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, much of Scoresby's research focused on terrestrial magnetism. On entering the church following the death of his wife, Scoresby received his Bachelor's Degree in Divinity from Cambridge in 1834. As vicar of Bradford from 1839-1846 Scoresby continued his scientific studies and interest in social conditions. Scoresby married three times and died in Torquay, Devon. 1861. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 537.6

The principles of Mr. Harrison's time-keeper; with plates of the same /Pub. by order of the Commissioners of Longitude. Harrison, John, 1767. • RARE-BOOK • 6 copies available. 681.113.92:094

A narrative of a mode pursued by the British government to effect improvements in naval architecture Gower, Richard Hall 1811 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 623.824

A new history of yachting / Mike Bender "This book, by a leading expert in the field, is the first major history of yachting for over a quarter of a century. Setting developments within political, social and economic changes, the book tells the story of yachting from Elizabethan times to the present day: the first uses of yachts, by monarchs, especially Charles II; yacht clubs and yacht racing in the eighteenth century; the early years of the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes and an analysis of the America Cup challenges; the pioneering developments in Ireland and the exporting of yachting to the colonies and trading outposts of the Empire; the expansion of yachting in Victorian times; the Golden Age of Yachting in the years before the First World War, when it was the sport of the crowned heads of Europe; the invention of the dinghy and the keelboat classes and, after the Second World War, the massive numbers of home-built dinghies; the breaking of new boundaries by risk-taking single-handers from the mid-1960s; the expansion of leisure sailing that came in the 1980s with the use of moulded plastic yachts; and current trends and pressures within the sport. Well-referenced yet highly readable, this book will be of interest both to the scholar and the sailing enthusiast."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 797.14

Seashaken houses : a lighthouse history from Eddystone to Fastnet /Tom Nancollas. "An enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited them. Lighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea. They encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose was much more noble, conceived as navigational gifts for the safety of all. Still today, we depend upon their guiding lights for the safe passage of ships. Nowhere is this truer than in the rock lighthouses of Great Britain and Ireland: twenty towers built between 1811 and 1904, so-called because they were constructed on desolate, slippery rock formations in the middle of the sea, rising, mirage-like, straight out of the waves, with lights shining at the their summits. Seashaken Houses is a lyrical exploration of these magnificent, isolated sentinels, the ingenuity of those who conceived them, the people who risked their lives building and rebuilding them, those that inhabited their circular rooms, and the ways in which we value emblems of our history in a changing world."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.715(42)

Traitâes âelâementaires de calcul diffâerentiel et de calcul intâegral : indâependans de toutes notions de quantitâes infinitâesimales et de limites ; ouvrage mis áa la portâee des commenðcans, et oáu se trouvent plusieurs nouvelles thâeories et mâethodes fort simplifiâees d'intâegrations, avec des applications utiles aux prográes des sciences exactes /par J.-B.-E. du Bourguet. Dubourguet, J. B. E. 1811. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 517:094

The shipwreck, a poem, by William Falconer, a sailor ...: The text illustrated by additional notes, and corrected from the first and second editions, with a life of the author, by James Stanier Clarke ... Falconer, William, 1811. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Falconer

Fast sailing ships : their design and construction, 1775-1875 /David R MacGregor MacGregor, David R.-(David Roy) 1988 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.123.13

Bell Rock lighthouse : an illustrated history /Michael A. W. Strachan "Since its completion in 1811, the Bell Rock Lighthouse has been revered as an industrial wonder of the world. The iconic tower was built on the Inchcape Rock, a submerged reef some 12 miles off the coast of Arbroath, and now stands as the oldest sea-washed tower in the world, surviving over 200 years of violent storms and crashing waves. The construction of the Bell Rock made the name of the Stevenson family, a dynasty of lighthouse engineers who dominated Scottish lighthouse engineering for 150 years. Robert Stevenson was the first man on the reef and the last man off, a personal commitment which saw the Bell Rock's actual Chief Engineer, John Rennie, almost deleted from the building's history. The Bell Rock is, however, more than just Stevenson and Rennie. Not only was it a remarkable feat of engineering, but one which played host to a remarkable way of life. The light-keepers undertook nightly vigils on the rock for 177 years, their often mundane and monotonous duties occasionally being punctuated by technological improvements and world events. The keepers are now all gone but the Bell Rock continues to show its familiar flash for the safety of all."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.715(413.1)

Opere Galilei, Galileo 1811 • RARE-BOOK • 7 copies available. 5.93:094

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