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Memoir on the antiquity of the zodiacs of Esneh and Dendera Drummond, W. 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5.09:094
Description of a lock designed for the Regent's Canal Company Gower, Richard Hall 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 626.4
The art of sail-making... Steel, David, 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.12.014.21
Sailing with Cook : inside the private journal of James Burney RN /Suzanne Rickard ; foreword by Peter Cochrane. "Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney RN is about the young James Burney's experience of shipboard life and the momentous events that took place during the second voyage of exploration when he sailed with Captain Cook on the Resolution and then on the Adventure between 1772 and 1773. At the age of 22, James Burney (1750-1821) was promoted to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. Embarking on a great voyage he decided to keep a private journal written not for officialdom but for the delight and information of his family and friends. It was an aide-memoire, a record of his coming of age and the getting of wisdom. He claimed at the outset, 'my chief aim is your amusement'. Under the command of Captain James Cook and Captain Tobias Furneaux on the Adventure, Burney crossed the Antarctic Circle, he was one of the first Englishmen to walk on Tasmania's southern beaches, he endured raging seas and icy weather, he sailed to New Zealand's South Island and into its beautiful sounds, and then he sailed further north to explore the tropical waters of the islands and atolls of Polynesia. Burney witnessed death at sea from misadventure and scurvy, and he experienced the shocking death of ten shipmates at the hands of Maori warriors. He enjoyed cordial advances from Pacific Islanders and the friendship of Omai, a young Ra'iatean man who became the second Pacific Islander to visit Europe. Burney listened carefully to island music making (to please his musician father), witnessed religious ceremonies and observed Pacific Islanders' hierarchies. He noted the building of war canoes and absorbed ancient Pacific myths and lore of navigation. All these experiences expanded his world view. This was in addition to working with his captain on making charts, maintaining ship's discipline and the ship's log, and upholding naval traditions as expected of a young officer. Burney's early life and his extraordinary family and connections are contextualised to illuminate the story of the private journal. Burney's extensive naval career took him to North America, the Mediterranean, the African continent, to India and the East Indies, to China, Alaska and Hawaii. He sailed again with Cook on the third voyage of discovery in 1776 and witnessed Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, in 1779. Burney's naval career was hindered by his independent frame of mind, if not his republican sentiments and alleged insubordination. Despite setbacks and disappointments, he was eventually promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral on the Retired List in a belated recognition of his service and seniority. In enforced retirement, Burney commenced a second career as a writer on the topic of global marine exploration. He married late, had children and, for a time, he was embroiled in an unorthodox domestic arrangement. He criticised government expenditures, he wrote a series of scholarly papers for the Royal Society and was elected a Fellow, he was highly respected for his studies of exploration and navigation, and he maintained eclectic circles of friends drawn from musical, literary, dramatic, naval and political circles. He was an amiable friend to many, including his famous sister, the novelist Fanny Burney who championed James throughout her life. Burney died in 1821 leaving a legacy of writing, including this first private journal that opened up a new world to his friends, and now to us. This book features facsimile pages extracted from the private journal and is beautifully illustrated with maps, portraits, contemporary documents and artefacts, including information text boxes on people and issues."--Provided by the publisher. [2015] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.92
Travels of Cosmo the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany, through England, during the reign of Charles the Second (1669) ... Cosmo III 1821 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(42)"1669"
A voyage round the world, in the years 1740, 1741, 1742, 1743, 1744 Anson, George Anson,-Baron, 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(100)"1740/1744"
A reply to the observations of a British merchant on the report of the Select Committee of the House of Lords relative to the timber trade 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:382:674
A system of naval tactics Steel, David, 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.12.014.21
Atlas of Terra Australis Flinders, Matthew 1814 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(26:94)"18"
A narrative of travels in Northern Africa, in the years 1818, 19, and 20 Lyon, G F 1821 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(612)"1818/1820"
Laurie's new plan of London and its environs, comprising the new building and recent improvements Outhett, John 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:912.43(421.2)
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, the Indian Ocean, and up the Red Sea, with travels into Egypt ... Renshaw, R 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(6)"1796/1807"
A New general atlas, consisting of a series of geographical designs... exhibiting the form and component parts of the globe... Thomson, John 1821 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(100)"18"
The storied ice : exploration, discovery, and adventure in Antarctica's Peninsula region /Joan N. Boothe. Recounts mankind's dramatic history from Magellan through the first years of the twenty-first century in the part of the Antarctic regions below South America and the Atlantic Ocean. This part of the world, by far the most visited portion of the south polar regions, is not only a place of staggering scenic beauty and amazing wildlife, but also a locale with a long and fascinating human history. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(99)".../1959"
Observationes Astronomicae distantiarum a vertice, et adscensionum rectarum stellarum quarumdam inerrantium solis item, et planetarum, quas in specula budensi montis blocksberg et instituit, et in calculum revocavit Kmeth, Daniel 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094
Tables to be used with the Nautical Almanac for finding the latitude and longitude at sea ... / W. Lax. Lax, W., (William), 1761-1836 1821 printing (London : printed by T. Bensley). • • 1 copy available. 527(083.5)
The history of plague, as it has lately appeared in the islands of Malta, Gozo, Corfu, Cephalonia etc ... Tully, J D 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 616.981.45(458.2:495)
Foedera, conventiones, litterae et cujuscunque generis acta publica inter Reges Angliae et alios quosvis imperatores, reges, pontifices, principes, vel communitates : ab ingressu Gulielmi I in Angliam, ad nostra usque tempora /Johanne Caley et Fred. Holbrooke. 1821-1830. • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available.
Histoire de l'astronomie moderne Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph 1969 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 52"15/18"
Entdeckungs-Reise in die Sud-See und nach der Berings-Strasse zur erforschung einer nordostlichen Durchfahrt : unternommen in den Jahren 1815, 1816, 1817 und 1818, ... auf dem Schiffe Rurick Kotzebue, Otto von 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Rurick
Nelson against Napoleon : from the Nile to Copenhagen, 1798-1801 /edited by Robert Gardiner. 1997. • FOLIO • 3 copies available. 940.27
The Trial of George Brisac ... for a neglect of his duty, during the time he was Captain of His Majesty's ship, the Iris ... Brisac, George 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Brisac
The philanthropic vocabulary and code of signals intended to illustrate a numeral concordance or key to the languages, including a plan for numeral epistolary correspondence with improvements in flag and semaphoric messages Conolly, Joseph 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:627.724(100)"1821"
A journal of a voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper in the years 1819 & 1820 Fisher, Alexander 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(987)"1819/1820"