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New universal dictionary of the marine / compiled by William Falconer ; modernized and enlarged by William Burney. Falconer, William, 1974 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61English:800.866

The Nelson encyclopaedia / Colin White. White, Colin, 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92NELSON(031)

Scottish lighthouse pioneers : travels with the Stevensons in Orkney and Shetland /Paul A. Lynn. "In the 19th century, the Stevenson engineers pioneered marvellous lighthouses around the coasts of Scotland -- lighthouses which inspire with their architectural elegance, and speak of compassion for sailors and fishermen risking their lives in these notoriously dangerous waters. But what was it actually like to be a Scottish lighthouse engineer, and how did the professional activities interact with social and economic conditions in Scotland at the time? How did the Northern Lighthouse Board's Engineer (almost invariably a Stevenson) cope with weeks aboard a small lighthouse vessel, travelling around the rugged Scottish coastline on dangerous tours of inspection and interacting with local people in some of the remotest regions of Europe? The author reveals the fascinating story of the Stevensons as family members as well as engineers -- brilliant yet fallible, tough yet vulnerable, with private lives that are little known, even to lighthouse enthusiasts. It sets their work in a historical and social context, drawing heavily on eye-witness accounts by two of Scotland's most celebrated literary sons: Walter Scott, internationally famous poet and member of the Edinburgh establishment; and Robert Louis Stevenson, young family member and disenchanted engineering apprentice desperate to become an author. The reader is taken to the Orkney and Shetland Islands with descriptions of the chain of Stevenson lighthouses that illuminate a vital shipping route between the North Sea, Baltic, and North Atlantic. Finally we travel to Muckle Flugga, the northernmost outpost of the British Isles and last link in the chain, a vicious rock on which David and Thomas Stevenson dared to build their 'impossible lighthouse'."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.715(411.1/.2)

Voyage de decouvertes aux terres Australes Freycinet, Louis 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(9):094

De computandis occultantionibus fixarum per planetas Mobius, Augustus Ferdinand 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Six engraved outlines of ships of war, from a first-rate to a cutter Pocock, Nicholas, 1815 • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available. 75.047(26:42)"18"

Practical observations on telescopes unknown 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.2A:094

Nouvelles methodes pour resoudre les equations des degres superieurs Dumas 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094

Astronomical observations made at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich in the years MDCCCXI, MDCCCXII, and MDCCCXIII Pond, John 1815 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 524-13

Essai d'un cours elementaire et general des sciences physiques Beudant, F S 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 53

A guide to all the watering and sea-bathing places with a description of the lakes 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:914.2"19"

Admiral Lord Keith and the naval war against Napoleon / Kevin D. McCranie ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene A. Smith. "Lord Keith, a Scottish Admiral who rose to prominence serving His Majesty from 1761 to 1815, ended his career by overseeing Napoleon's surrender in 1815. Born George Keith Elphinstone, Keith at one time or another held nearly every important command in the British navy, and his story illustrates the navy's history during the Age of Fighting Sail. [...] Keith eventually commanded four major fleets - the Eastern Seas, the Mediterranean, the North Sea and the Channel. Though he never led a fleet into battle, Keith supported joint operations with the British army and its allies while simultaneously maintaining command of the sea and ensuring the free passage of commerce. [...] Documents Keith's dealings with the British government, the Royal Family, the Admiralty, the French government, the French navy, the British army and Britain's allies."--Provided by the Publisher. 2006. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49"1793/1815"(42:44)

Notes of a military reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila rivers. By Lieut. Col. W.H. Emory. made in 1846-7, with the advanced guard of the "Army of the "West" ... United States.-Army.---Corps of Topographical Engineers. 1848 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(73)"1846/1847":094

Melanges d'analyse algebrique et de geometrie De Stainville, J 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094

A treatise on dry rot ... with methods of prevention and cure ... Bowden, Ambrose 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:620.193.8

Taboadas perpetuas astronomicas para uso da navegaðcäao portugueza / mandadas compilar pela Academia real das sciencias de Lisboa. Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa 1815. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527(083.5):094

The old steam navy Canney, Donald L 1990-1993 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.823.6

Mathematical tables: containing the logarithms of numbers, logarithmic sines, tangents, and secants and a traverse table Brown, J 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 519.66

A biographical memoir of the late Sir Peter Parker, Baronet, Captain of His Majesty's ship Menelaus, of 38 guns, killed in action while storming the American camp at Bellair, near Baltimore, on the thirty-first of August, 1814 Dallas, George 1815 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:92Parker, Peter

Lecons de mecanique analytique, donnee a le'ecole royale polytechnique De Prony 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 531:094

Olney hymns in three books : 1. on select texts of scripture :2. on occasional subjects :3. on the progress and changes of the spiritual life Newton, John, 1815. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.

The U.S. Navy pictorial history of the War of 1812 / Don Philpott. Philpott, Don, 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.49"1812"(42:73)

Beobachtungen und bemerkungen uber den grossen cometen von 1811 Schroeter, Johann Hieronymus 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092.64:094

An Act for the better protection of the trade of the United Kingdom during the present hostilities with France Great Britain. Laws, statutes etc 1815 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 382

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