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An essay on the variation of the compass ... Bain, William 1817 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:629.1.053.11
Philosophie de la technie algorithmique : Seconde section, contenant les lois de series comme preparation a la reforme des mathematiques /par Hoene Wronski Hoene-Wroânski, Jâozef Maria, 1816 et 1817 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094
Romantic-era shipwreck narratives : an anthology /edited by Carl Thompson. An anthology of popular narratives about shipwrecks, published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3
Narrative of the adventures and sufferings of Samuel Patterson, who made three voyages to the north west coast of America, and who sailed to the Sandwich Islands, and to many other parts of this world before being shipwrecked on the Feegee Islands Patterson, Samuel 1967 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Patterson
Statement of circumstances which led to Captain R O'Brien's hoisting a broad pendant, and being dismissed His Majesty's service, by the sentence of a court-martial, held on board the Cornwallis, in Madras Roads, April 1816 O'Brien, Robert 1817 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:344.4"1815"
Formole analitiche pel calcolo della Pasqua e correzione di quelle di Gauss con critiche osservazioni su quanto ha scritto del calendario il Delambre / Lodovico Ciccolini .... Ciccolini, Lodovico, 1817. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 529.3:094
Observationes astronomicas : institutas in specula Universitatis caesareae Dorpatensis, publici juris facit Senatus Universitatis /F.G.W. Struve. Struve, F. G. W.-(Friedrich Georg Wilhelm), 1817 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1814/1815":094
Jane Austen's transatlantic sister : the life and letters of Fanny Palmer Austen /Sheila Johnson Kindred. "In 1807, genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy. Experiencing adventure and adversity in wartime conditions both at sea and onshore, the spirited and resilient Fanny travelled between Bermuda, Nova Scotia, and England. After crossing the Atlantic in 1811, she ingeniously made a home for Charles and their daughters aboard a working naval vessel, and developed a supportive friendship with his sister, Jane. In Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister, Fanny's articulate and informative letters - transcribed in full for the first time and situated in their meticulously researched historical context - disclose her quest for personal identity and autonomy, her maturation as a wife and mother, and the domestic, cultural, and social milieu she inhabited. Sheila Johnson Kindred also investigates how Fanny was a source of naval knowledge for Jane, and how far she was an inspiration for Austen's literary invention, especially for the female naval characters in Persuasion. Although she died young, Fanny's story is a compelling record of female naval life that contributes significantly to our limited knowledge of women's roles in the Napoleonic Wars. Enhanced by rarely seen illustrations, Fanny's life story is a rich new source for Jane Austen scholars and fans of her fiction, as well as for those interested in biography, women's letters, and history of the family."--Provided by publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92AUSTEN
Viaggi d'Amerigo Vespucci, con la vita l'elogio e la dissertazione giustificativa di questo celebre navigatore del Padre S Canovai Vespucci, Amerigo, 1817 • MICROFILM • 2 copies available. 528.282
Bible. English. Authorized. OT. Apocrypha. The Holy Bible according to the authorized version; with notes, explanatory and practical... D'Oyly, George (annot) 1817 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 22
Essai historique sur le probleme des trois corps ou dissertation sur la theorie de la lune et des planetes Gautier, Alfred 1817 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 52.092.3:094
A Treatise on the science of shipbuilding : with observations on the British Navy, the extraordinary decay of the men of war, and on the causes, effects, and prevention of the dry rot; also on the growth and management of timber trees... Blackburn, Isaac 1817 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.12(043.3):094
A treatise on the science of ship-building : with observations on the British navy, the extraordinary decay of the men of war, and on the causes, effects, and prevention of the dry rot; also on the growth and management of timber trees ... Blackburn, Isaac 1817 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:629.12
Marine art & Ulster : a chronicle of sail, steam & hag codes /A.S. Davidson. Davidson, A. S.-(Arthur Samuel), 2005. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 7.047(416)
The Bounty : the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty /Caroline Alexander. More than two centuries have passed since Master's Mate Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lieutenant Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend. In giving the Bounty mutiny its historical due, Caroline Alexander has chosen to frame her narrative by focusing on the court-martial of the ten mutineers who were captured in Tahiti and brought to justice in England. This fresh perspective revivifies the entire saga, and the salty, colorful language of the captured men themselves conjures the events of that April morning in 1789, when Christian's breakdown impelled every man on a fateful course: Bligh and his loyalists on the historic open boat voyage that revealed him to be one of history's great navigators; Christian on his restless exile; and the captured mutineers toward their day in court. As the book unfolds, each figure emerges as a full-blown character caught up in a drama that may well end on the gallows. And as Alexander shows, it was in a desperate fight to escape hanging that one of the accused defendants deliberately spun the mutiny into the myth we know today-of the tyrannical Lieutenant Bligh of the Bounty. Ultimately, Alexander concludes that the Bounty mutiny was sparked by that most unpredictable, combustible, and human of situations-the chemistry between strong personalities living in close quarters. Her account of the voyage, the trial, and the surprising fates of Bligh, Christian, and the mutineers is an epic of ambition, passion, pride, and duty at the dawn of the Romantic era. 2003. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.133"1789"
Mutiny on the Bounty / Peter FitzSimons. "The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave. Under the leadership of Fletcher Christian most of the crew mutinied soon after sailing from Tahiti, setting Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal crewmen adrift in a small open boat. In one of history's great feats of seamanship, Bligh navigated this tiny vessel for 3618 nautical miles to Timor. Fletcher Christian and the mutineers sailed back to Tahiti, where most remained and were later tried for mutiny. But Christian, along with eight fellow mutineers and some Tahitian men and women, sailed off into the unknown, eventually discovering the isolated Pitcairn Island - at the time not even marked on British maps - and settling there. This astonishing story is historical adventure at its very best, encompassing the mutiny, Bligh's monumental achievement in navigating to safety, and Fletcher Christian and the mutineers' own epic journey from the sensual paradise of Tahiti to the outpost of Pitcairn Island. The mutineers' descendants live on Pitcairn to this day, amid swirling stories and rumours of past sexual transgressions and present-day repercussions. Mutiny on the Bounty is a sprawling, dramatic tale of intrigue, bravery and sheer boldness, told with the accuracy of historical detail and total command of story that are Peter FitzSimons' trademarks."--Provided by the publisher. [2018] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133"1789"
A history of Pitcher's dockyard Northfleet : 1788 - 1866 /Christopher Sotheby Pitcher, Kenneth McGoverin Pitcher, Christopher Sotheby 2018 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.81(422.3)
Recueil de petites marines : reprâesentant des navires de diverses nations, et de toutes espáeces, sous diffâerentes voilures; intâerieurs d'arsenaux, travaux des ports, costumes de pãecheurs, de matelots, et principales professions attachâees áa la marine; phares, sites pittoresques; barques de riviáeres, etc /Dessinâe et gravâe par Baugean. Baugâean, Jean-Jâerãome, 1987. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 7.047(26)
Narrative of a voyage to New Zealand performed in the years 1814 and 1815 Nicholas, John Liddiard 1817 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:910.4(931)"1814/1815"
A treatise containing the results of numerous experiments on the preservation of timber from premature decay, and on the prevention of the progress of rottenness, when already commenced, in ships and buildings, and their protection from the ravages of the termite, or white ant; with remarks on the means of preserving wooden jetties and bridges from destruction by worms Chapman, William 1817 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:674.04
Medailles sur les principaux evenements du regne entier de Louis le Grand, avec des explications historiques. Acadâemie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France) 1723. • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 355.48"1643/1714"(44)
Naval occurrences of the War of 1812 : a full and correct account of the naval war between Great Britain and the United States of America, 1812-1815 /W. James ; new introduction by Andrew Lambert. James, William, 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
Narrative of a voyage, in His Majesty's late Ship Alceste, to the Yellow Sea, along the coast of Corea, and through its numerous hitherto undiscovered islands to the Island of Lewchew : with an account of her shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar M'Leod, John 1817 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:910.4(519:529)"1816/1817"
History of the wars occasioned by the French Revolution, from the commencement of hostilities in 1792 to the end of the year 1816 ... Gifford, C H 1817 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:355.48"1789/1816"