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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

Monatliche correspondenz : zur befèorderung der erd- und himmelskunde /Herausgegeben vom Freyherrn F. von Zach, Herzoglichen Sachsen-Gothaischen Oberhosmister Zach, Franz Xaver,-Freiherr von, 1811 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1811":094

My inestimable friend / Alastair R. Brown. A biography of Rear-Admiral William Brown (1764-1814), the author's great-great-grandfather. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of 13 as a captain's servant before being appointed a midshipman. He passed his lieutenant's examination in 1788, was promoted to commander in 1791, post-captain in 1793 and was made Rear-Admiral in 1811. He served with the Mediterranean Fleet and joined the Channel Fleet in 1794 under Lord Howe. Brown, then in command of the Ajax, returned to England to give evidence at the court-martial of Vice-Admiral Robert Calder in 1805. A full list of Brown's ships and his family tree are provided. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BROWN

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

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

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

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 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)

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)

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

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)

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)

Raffles and the golden opportunity 1781-1826 / Victoria Glendinning. A biography of Sir Stamford Raffles, best known as the founder of Singapore. Joining the East India Company as a clerk at the age of 14, Raffles was appointed assistant secretary to the government of the Company's Penang presidency. In 1811, following the invasion of Java, Raffles was appointed lieutenant-governor by his patron Lord Minto. Raffles came under criticism for his administration and financial record in Java after its return to the Dutch and he was transferred to Benkoolen. Then, in 1818, Raffles and Colonel William Farquhar were tasked with finding a strategic trading post in the area resulting in the establishment of a settlement at Singapore. On returning to England in 1824, Raffles lost all his personal possesions in a fire which destroyed HMS Fame and left him financially ruined. He married twice, firstly to Olivia Mariamne Fancourt and following her death, to Sophia Hull. He wrote the History of Java, had a keen interest in natural history and was elected first president of the Zoological Society in 1826. The text is supported by illustrations and a bibliography. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92RAFFLES

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

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