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Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes executes ... par les corvettes le Geographe, le Naturaliste, et la goellette le Casuarina pendant les annees 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804 : partie navigation et geographie: atlas Freycinet, Louis de 1812 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(26:94)"18"
Telegraphic signals, or, Marine vocabulary : with observations on signal flags and the best mode of applying them /by Sir Home Popham. Guide to signal flag vocabulary and sentence construction; illustrated with hand-coloured images of flags. 1812. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.724(42)"18":094
Shipwrecks and disasters at sea : or historical narratives of the most noted calamities and providential deliverances, which have resulted from maritime enterprise ... Dalyell, John Graham, Sir 1812 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:656.61.085.3
The Seaman's monitor : or, advice to sea-faring men, with reference to their behaviour before, in and after their voyage, with prayers for their use Woodward, Josiah 1812 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:248:656.61
Moyens infaillibles de conserver sa vue en bon etat jusqu'a une extreme vieillesse et de la retablir et la fortifier lorsq'elle s'est affaiblie ... Beer, G J 1812 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:612.68
Regulations respecting establishment of pay for the chaplains of His Majesty's fleet Great Britain. Orders in Council 1812 • RARE-PAMPH • 2 copies available. 094:355.51
Lettres a une princesse d'Allemagne sur divers sujets de physique et de philosophie Euler 1812 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 5.093:094
English paintings of English poetry : a gallery guide "This leaflet provides the poetic sources and a brief commentary for a selection of paintings in the Tate by some of the greatest English artists, Hogarth, Blake, Turner, as well as some more obscure, but fascinating, figures such as John Hamilton Mortimer ca1980 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 7.046
The one hundred gun ship Victory The Victory, a three-decker First Rate, was 40 years old by the time of Trafalgar and continued in active sevice until 1812. She is now preserved at the Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth. This book gives a history of the ship including, design, construction, repairs, refits, rebuilds and decoration. There are extensive 3-d drawings with in-depth keys of details of the ship as presently restored. A series of photos show close-up details and scenes on-board. The book jacket shows the Victory's Trafalgar colour scheme. 1987 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.821.2
On the determination of the orbits of comets, : according to the methods of Father Boscovich and Mr de la Place... Englefield, Henry 1793 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 52.092.64:094
Observations on the art and trade of clock and watch-making, and the causes and consequences of the numerous frauds and innovations resulting from the defect of the laws now in being for its better government ... 1812 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 681.11
The British census : a comparative statement of the population of Great Britain in the years 1801 and 1811. Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons [1812?]. • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 312.8
A world of empires : the Russian voyage of the frigate Pallada /Edyta M. Bojanowska. "Many people are familiar with American Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition to open trade relations with Japan in the early 1850s. Less well known is that on the heels of the Perry squadron followed a Russian expedition secretly on the same mission. Serving as secretary to the naval commander was novelist Ivan Goncharov, who turned his impressions into a book, The Frigate "Pallada", which became a bestseller in imperial Russia. In A World of Empires, Edyta Bojanowska uses Goncharov's fascinating travelogue as a window onto global imperial history in the mid-nineteenth century. Reflecting on encounters in southern Africa's Cape Colony, Dutch Java, Spanish Manila, Japan, and the British ports of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, Goncharov offers keen observations on imperial expansion, cooperation, and competition. Britain's global ascendancy leaves him in equal measures awed and resentful. In Southeast Asia, he recognizes an increasingly interlocking world in the vibrant trading hubs whose networks encircle the globe. Traveling overland back home, Goncharov presents Russia's colonizing rule in Siberia as a positive imperial model, contrasted with Western ones. Slow to be integrated into the standard narrative on European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an increasingly assertive empire, eager to position itself on the world stage among its American and European rivals and fully conversant with the ideologies of civilizing mission and race. Goncharov's gripping narrative offers a unique eyewitness account of empire in action, in which Bojanowska finds both a zeal to emulate European powers and a determination to define Russia against them."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(470+571)
Proceedings of the British Meteorological Society British Meteorological Society 1863-1871 • RARE-BOOK • 5 copies available. 527.093M
Steamboat evolution : a short history /B.E.G. Clark. A short introductory history of the origins of powered vessels in America, the UK and France from early thoughts to the successes of Fulton in 1807 and Bell in 1812. It covers the boats, machinery, propulsive methods used, people and places involved. The text with illustrations and appendices of source material provide a sound basis for further study of any single aspect of the subject area. 2006]. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123.2"18"
Monatliche correspondenz : zur befèorderung der erd- und himmelskunde /Herausgegeben vom Freyherrn F. von Zach, Herzoglichen Sachsen-Gothaischen Oberhosmister Zach, Franz Xaver,-Freiherr von, 1812 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1812":094
The pirates Laffite : the treacherous world of the corsairs of the Gulf /William C. Davis. "Jean and Pierre Laffite's lives were intertwined with the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, the era just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812. Labeled as corsairs and buccaneers for methods that bordered on piracy, the brothers ran a privateering cooperative that provided contraband goods to a hungry market and made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf"--Dust jacket. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1(729)
Des revolutions des corps celestes par le mecanisme des rouages / par Antide Janvier Janvier, Antide 1812 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 521.1
The coming of the Comet : the rise and fall of the paddle steamer /Nick Robins. "Two-hundred years ago, in August 1812, Henry Bell's Comet, a revolutionary paddle steamer, made her first journey on the Clyde. This marked the start of remarkable developments that were to totally transform shipping and transport in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The paddle steamer soon became the key link with Empire, pushing the Honourable East India Company's wooden walls off the seas; it provided the all-important link with the Americas, and it offered emigrants to the New World a means of pushing westwards."--Back cover. 2012 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.21
Russian California, 1806-1860 : a history in documents /compiled and edited by James R. Gibson and Alexei A. Istomin. "This two-volume book is a documentary history of Russia's 19th-century settlement in California. It contains 492 documents (letters, reports, travel descriptions, censuses, ethnographic and geographical information), mostly translated from the Russian for the first time, very fully annotated, and with an extensive historical introduction, maps, and illustrations, many in colour. This broad range of primary sources provides a comprehensive and detailed history of the Russian Empire's most distant and most exotic outpost, one whose liquidation in 1841 presaged St Petersburg's abandonment of all of Russian America in 1867. Russia from the sixteenth century onwards had steadily expanded eastwards in search of profitable resources. This expansion was rapid, eased not only by the absence of foreign opposition and disunity of the native peoples but also by Siberia's river network and the North Pacific's convenient causeway of the Aleutian chain leading to Alaska. It was paid for largely by the 'soft gold' of Siberian sables and Pacific sea otters. By the end of the 1700s, however, on the Northwest Coast of North America the Russians met increasing opposition from the indigenous people (Tlingits) and foreign rivals (American and English fur-trading vessels). This combination soon depleted the coast of sea otters, and at the same time the Russians were finding it ever more expensive to obtain supplies from Europe by overland transport across Siberia or round-the-world voyages, so under the aegis of the monopolistic Russian-American Company (1799) they leapfrogged southward to the frontera del norte of the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain. Here, in 1812, they founded Russian California (officially, Ross Counter) as a base for hunting the Californian sea otter, growing grain and rearing stock, and trading with the Spanish missions. Eventually the exclave comprised a fort (Ross), a port (Bodega), five farms, and a hunting and birding station on the Farallon Islands, as well as a shipyard, a tannery, and a brickworks. The successes and failures of these enterprises, the perils of navigation, experiments in agriculture, the personal, political and economic problems of the colony, and Russian engagement with the indigenous population all come to life in these pages."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22HAKLUYT
The horrible peace : British veterans and the end of the Napoleonic Wars /Evan Wilson. "Few battles in world history provide a cleaner dividing line than Waterloo: before, there was Napoleon; after, there was the Pax Britannica. While Waterloo marked France's defeat and Britain's ascendance as an imperial power, the war was far from over for many soldiers and sailors, who were forced to contend with the lasting effects of battlefield trauma, the realities of an impossibly tight labor market, and growing social unrest. The Horrible Peace details a story of distress and discontent, of victory complicated by volcanism, and of the challenges facing Britain at the beginning of its victorious century. Examining the process of demobilization and its consequences for British society, Evan Wilson draws on archival research and veterans' memoirs to tell the story of this period through the experiences of veterans who struggled to reintegrate and soldiers and sailors who remained in service as Britain attempted to defend and expand the empire. Veterans were indeed central to Britain's experience of peace, as they took to the streets to protest the government's indifference to widespread unemployment and misery. The fighting did not stop at Waterloo"-- [2023] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.00941
The burning of Washington : the British invasion of 1814 Taken from first-hand sources including letters, diaries, journals and newspapers, the author has produced a narrative of the 1812-1815 war between America and Great Britain. Particular emphasis is on the attack and burning of Washington by the British. He also describes how Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the epic poem which later became the national anthem and reveals the sense of pride that the Americans felt after winning this Second War of Independence. 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1812/1815"(42:73)
Monatliche correspondenz : zur befèorderung der erd- und himmelskunde /Herausgegeben vom Freyherrn F. von Zach, Herzoglichen Sachsen-Gothaischen Oberhosmister Zach, Franz Xaver,-Freiherr von, 1812 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1812":094
Naval blockades in peace and war : an economic history since 1750 /Lance E. Davis, Stanley L. Engerman. "Examines a number of major blockades, including the continental system in the Napoleonic Wars, the war of 1812, the American Civil War, and World Wars I and II, in addition to the increased use of peacetime blockades and sanctions with the hope of avoiding war"--Dust Jacket. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.463.3"1750-"