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The collection of autograph letters and historical documents ? formed by Alfred Morrison. Morrison, Alfred. 1894. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 92NELSON(093.32)
The rockets' red glare : an illustrated history of the War of 1812 /Donald R. Hickey and Connie D. Clark. This illustrated history invites readers to travel back in time and imagine what it would have been like to live through the War of 1812, America's forgotten conflict. The book recounts the war's main battles and campaigns, from William Hull's ignominious surrender at Detroit in 1812 to Andrew Jackson's spectacular victory at New Orleans in 1815. It describes Oliver H. Perry's remarkable victory on Lake Erie and the ensuing death of the great Shawnee leader Tecumseh. It chronicles the devastation on the Niagara Front as the balance of power shifted back and forth. It follows Thomas Macdonough as he executes a masterstroke on Lake Champlain, winning a great naval battle and saving upper New York from occupation. Also included are the demoralizing British raids in the Chesapeake that culminated in the burning of Washington, D.C., and the successful defense of Baltimore that inspired Francis Scott Key to pen "The Star-Spangled Banner." This book recaptures in detail not only the military history of the war but also its domestic and diplomatic history. The authors show why the fragile young republic, which was still a second-rate power, declared war against Great Britain, an established global power. They also explain why Americans remember the conflict as an unalloyed success, even though by the war's end, the United States faced military uncertainty, financial stress, a punishing British naval blockade, and the intractable opposition of Federalists in New England. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1812"(42:73)
America, sea power, and the world / edited by James C. Bradford. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.02(73)"17/21"
Geographie de Strabon : traduite du Grec en Francais [par La Porte du Theil, Coray et Letronne, avec des notes de Gossellin]. Strabo 1809-1819 • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 094:913.8
Commemorating the seafarer : monuments, memorials and memory /Barbara Tomlinson. "This book discusses memorials - stained glass windows, church, cemetery and public monuments - commemorating British seafarers, shipbuilders and victims of shipwreck from the sixteenth century to the present. Examples have been chosen mainly from Great Britain and Ireland with a few from wider afield. They include important works by major British artists as well as more modest productions by anonymous carvers. The book retells the dramatic stories behind them, illustrating significant social and cultural changes in Britain's relationship to the sea. Memorials vividly illustrate the hazards of seagoing life and the impact these had both upon the family of the deceased and the general public. The book has a cultural historical focus. Each chapter includes case studies of both high status and popular memorials, showing how iconography such as the depiction of the wrecked ship was widely transmitted. The book covers both naval and commercial aspects of seafaring and includes memorials to naval officers, merchants, explorers, fishermen, leisure sailors, victims of shipwrecks and lifesavers, with around 100 illustrations of memorials."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 725.94(42)
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)
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)
An Act to continue the encouragement of persons making discoveries for finding the longitude at sea, or other useful discoveries and improvements in navigation, and for making experiments relating thereto ... Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1815 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 528.282
Gender, war and politics : transatlantic perspectives, 1775-1830 /edited by Karen Hagemann, Gisela Mettele, Jane Rendall. "This volume addresses war, developing political and national identities and the changing gender regimes of Europe and the Americas between 1775 and 1820. Military and civilian experiences of war and revolution, in free and slave societies, both reflected and shaped gender concepts and practices, in relation to class, ethnicity, race and religion"-- 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.02(261)-055.2
American adversaries : West and Copley in a transatlantic world /Emily Ballew Neff with Kaylin H. Weber ; with contributions by Janet Catherine Berlo, James Clifton, Leo Costello, Christopher Lloyd, Donna Pierce, and Martin Postle. "Illuminating essays and more than two hundred images offer a compelling account of the 18th-century contemporary history painters John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West--America's first global art superstars"--Provided by publisher. 2013. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 7(73)"19"
Auxiliary tables for determining the angle of position of the sun's axis and the latittude and longitude of the earth referred to the sun's equator / by Warren De La Rue De la Rue, Warren, 1875-78 • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 52-17
The role of naval bases in maritime operations in the Mediterranean during the eighteenth century, and Dockyards and naval bases in North America, the Atlantic and the Caribbean : Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society Volume 15 September 2021; Conferences held at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich 24 March 2018 and 30 March 2019. The Naval Dockyards Society. 2021. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
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
Catalogue of the library / Sanderson, Michael (comp). 1968-1976. Sanderson, Michael (comp) 1968-1976. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 017.1(421)NMM
Mediterranean-built prizes taken into the Royal Navy / David J. Lyon Lyon, David, 1992 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)
Warship 1989 / edited by Robert Gardiner. Gardiner, Robert, 1989. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82"1989"
An Act to continue for one year certain Acts for the better prevention and punishment of attempts to seduce persons serving in His Majesty's forces by sea and land from their duty and allegiance to His Majesty, or to incite them to mutiny or disobedience Great Britain. Laws, statutes etc 1815 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.291.5
Naval chronology : or, an historical summary of naval and maritime events... from the time of the Romans, to the Treaty of Peace of Amiens, with a copious appendix : in five volumes : a new edition revised and corrected : volumes I and V Schomberg, Isaac 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.49(42)