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A Narrative of the shipwreck of the Oswego, on the coast of South Barbary, and of the sufferings of the master and crew while in bondage among the Arabs Paddock, Judah 1818 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123Oswego:094

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)

Narrative of a voyage to Senegal in 1816 ... comprising an account of the shipwreck of the Medusa ... and ... observations respecting the agriculture of the western coast of Africa / Savigny, J B Henry. 1968. Savigny, J B Henry 1968 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(663)"1816"

Traite complet de mechanique appliquee aux arts, contenant l'exposition methodique des theories et des experiences les plus utiles poir diriger le choix, l'invention, la construction et l'emploi de toutes les especes de machines Bourgnis, J.-A, 1818 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 531:094

Narrative of a voyage to Senegal in 1816 ... comprising an account of the shipwreck of the Medusa ... and ... observations respecting the agriculture of the western coast of Africa Savigny, J B Henry 1818 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:656.61.085.3Medusa

Explanation of circumstances which led to the trial of Captain Robert O'Brien RN, by a court martial in the East Indies, together with his charges against the officer commanding the squadron upon that station, and the decisions of the Lords of the Admiralty Sayer, George 1818 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:344.4"1815"

On the edge : mapping North America's coasts /Roger M. McCoy. McCoy, Roger M. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.9(7)

'I was transformed' : Frederick Douglass: an American slave in victorian Britain /Laurence Fenton "In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his incendiary autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, arrived in Liverpool for the start of a near-two-year tour of Britain and Ireland he always called one of the most transformative periods of his life. Laurence Fenton draws on a wide array of sources from both sides of the Atlantic and combines a unique insight into the early years of one of the great figures of the nineteenth-century world with rich profiles of the enormous personalities at the heart of the transatlantic anti-slavery movement. This vivid portrait of life in Victorian Britain is the first to fully explore the 'liberating sojourn' that ended with Douglass gaining his freedom - paid for by British supporters - before returning to America as a celebrity and icon of international standing. It also follows his later life, through the American Civil War and afterwards. Douglass has been described as 'the most influential African American of the nineteenth century'. He spoke and wrote on behalf of a variety of reform causes: women's rights, temperance, peace, land reform, free public education and the abolition of capital punishment. But he devoted most of his time, immense talent and boundless energy to ending slavery. On April 14, 1876, Douglass would deliver the keynote speech at the unveiling of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington's Lincoln Park."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92DOUGLASS, FREDERICK

Tableau de l'univers : ou causes du mouvement annuel et de la rotation des astres, suivi d'un traite geologique sur la formation de la terre et de ses organisations Seitz, J 1818 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Memorie e lettere inedite finora o disperse di Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei 1818 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 5.093:094

Wonderful escapes, containing the shipwreck of the Antelope, on the coast of Otaheite, the loss of the Hobart packet, on an island of ice, and an account of a dangerous journey over the frozen sea 1818 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:656.61.085.3Antelope

Carte de la partie europeenne de l'empire de Russie, avec l'indication des chemins de poste, ainsi que les douanes frontieres et de la repartition actuelle en gouvernements et districts nouvellement revue et corrigee Russia. Depot Topographique Militaire 1818 • ATLAS-FOL • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(47)"18"

Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin, LLD, FRS etc. ... comprising the private correspondence and public negotiations of Dr Franklin, and a selection from his political, philosophical, and miscellaneous works Franklin, Benjamin 1818 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:92Franklin, Benjamin

Ephemâerides astronâomicas : calculadas para o meridiano do Observatâorio real da Universidade de Coimbra : para o uso do mesmo observatâorio, e para o de navegaðcaäo portugueza 1818 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 524.3(059.3):094

Correspondance astronomique, gâeographique, hydrographique et statistique / du Baron de Zach. Zach, Franz Xaver,-Freiherr von, 1818 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1818":094

Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-choo island; with an appendix, containgin charts, and various hydrographical and scientific notices. . .and a vocabulary of the Loo-choo language Hall, Basil, 1818 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(5):094

The naval history of Great Britain, commencing with the earliest period of history, and continued to the expedition against Algiers, under the command of Lord Exmouth, in 1816 : including the history and lives of the British admirals Campbell, John 1818 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.49(42)"-0054/18"

Recherches sur les bas-reliefs astronomiques des egyptiens, et parallele de ces bas-reliefs avec les differens monumens astronomiques de l'antiquite, d'ou resulte la connoissance de la majeure partie des constellations egyptiennes Jollois,-M. 1818 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 52.09:094

Naval suggestions, summary, for a general improvement of the scantline in His Majesty's ships, and better arranging for their ordnance : with a proposed plan to have but ten classes throughout the six rates Schomberg, Alexander Wilmot 1818 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.94:094:629.12

Explanation of circumstances which led to the trial of Captain Robert O'Brien, RN, by a court martial, in the East Indies ... Sayer, George 1818 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92O'Brien

Voyages dans les mers du Sud / L'Atelier d'Artistes "A collection of paintings and photographs from a range of artists focusing on areas in Oceania" 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 75(9)

Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-West passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait, during the summer of 1817 O'Reilly, Bernard 1818 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:910.4(988)"1817"

A narrative of the transactions of the Honorable Basil Cochrane, late contractor and agent for victualling His Majesty's ships and vessels in the East Indies, with the Honorable the Victualling Board ... the whole intended to shew the total inattention and neglect with which Mr Cochrane was treated by the Board ... Cochrane, Basil 1818 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:355.75"17/18"

Determinatio attractionis, quam in punctum quodvis positionis datae exerceret planeta, si eius massa per totam orbitam, ratione temporis : quo singulae partes describuntur, uniformiter esset dispertita /Auctore Carolo Friderico Gauss Gauss, Carl Friedrich, [1820] • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094

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