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Narrative of the surrender of Buonaparte and of his residence on board HMS Bellerophon, with a detail of the principal events that occurred in that ship between the 24th of May and the 8th August 1815 Maitland, Frederick Lewis 1826 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Maitland

Sailors and saints Glascock, William Nugent 1834 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 359.22

Untersuchungen èuber die Lèange des einfachen Secundenpendels / von F.W. Bessel ... ; mit zwei kupfertafeln Bessel, F. W.-(Friedrich Wilhelm), 1828. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11.032.111:094

Campbeltown Steamboat Company : story of a hundred years - ships and men that have passed This pamphlet was written to mark the centenary of the Campbeltown Steamboat Company from 1826 to 1926 and aims to give an account of the company over this time, including the ships and men who were part of it. Accompanied by black and white illustrations, it gives details of steamers such as the Duke of Lancaster, the Saint Kiaran, the Gael, the Druid, the Kintyre, the Duke of Cornwall, the Celt, the Kinloch, the Davaar, and the Dalriada. In addition, it lists the original shareholders, company profits from 1827 to 1853, the chairmen of the company and the various captains of the ships, including Captains Napier, Kerr, and McLean. 1927 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.123.2(413.8)

Naval sketch-book : or, The service afloat and ashore, with characteristic reminiscences, fragments and opinions /by an officer of rank. Glascock, W. N.-(William Nugent), 1826. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124

An essay on the strength and stress of timber, founded upon experiments performed at the Royal military academy, on specimens selected from the Royal arsenal, and His Majesty's dock-yard, Woolwich : preceded by an historical review of former theories and experiments : also an appendix on the strength of iron, and other materials /by Peter Barlow. Barlow, Peter. 1826. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.02(42):674:094

Greenwich Hospital : a series of naval sketches, descriptive of the life of a man-of-war's man Old Sailor 1826 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:820-32.4

Observations and experiments made at Port Bowen in the years 1824-25, on the figure of the earth, on magnetism, and atmospherical refraction Parry, W E :-Captain 1826 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 550.38:094

The slave colonies of Great Britain, or : A picture of Negro slavery drawn by the colonists themselves ; being an abstract of the various papers recently laid before Parliament on that subject /Zachary Macaulay. Macaulay, Zachary, ca2010] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326(41-44)"18"

Mayer's catalogue of stars : corrected and enlarged ; together with a comparison of the places of the greater part of them, with those given by Bradley ; and a reference to every observation of every star /by Francis Baily. Baily, Francis, [1831] • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 524.3(083.8):094

The naval miscellany. edited by Brian Vale Vale, Brian 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22NRS

Letters on professional topics : viz: 1: on the dry rot in the Navy; 2: on the necessity of practice in the use of signals and naval evolutions; 3: on subjects connected with shipbuilding Stirling, Charles 1825 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:620.193.8

Journal of a third voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, performed in the years 1824-25, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Fury Parry, William Edward,-Sir, 1826 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:910.4(987)"1824/1825"

The Holy Bible according to the authorized version with notes, explanatory and practical. Bible. English. Authorised 1826. • RARE-FOLIO • 3 copies available. 22:094

East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India

Royal Yacht Club signals : 1823. Royal Yacht Club. 1823. • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:627.724(422.8)"1823"

Naval sketch book : or the service afloat and ashore : with characteristic reminiscences, fragments, and opinions. Glascock, William Nugent. 1834. • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:355.124

American sanctuary : mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the Age of Revolution /A. Roger Ekirch. "A. Roger Ekirch's American Sanctuary begins in 1797 with the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy--on the British frigate HMS Hermione, four thousand miles from England's shores, off the western coast of Puerto Rico. In the midst of the most storied epoch in British seafaring history, the mutiny struck at the very heart of military authority and at Britain's hierarchical social order. Revolution was in the air: America had won its War of Independence, the French Revolution was still unfolding, and a ferocious rebellion loomed in Ireland, with countless dissidents already arrested. Most of the Hermione mutineers had scattered throughout the North Atlantic; one of them, Jonathan Robbins, had made his way to American shores, and the British were asking for his extradition. Robbins let it be known that he was an American citizen from Danbury, Connecticut, and that he had been impressed into service by the British. John Adams, the Federalist successor to Washington as president, in one of the most catastrophic blunders of his administration, sanctioned Robbins's extradition, according to the terms of the Jay Treaty of 1794. Convicted of murder and piracy by a court-martial in Jamaica, Robbins was sentenced by the British to death, hauled up on the fore yardarm of the frigate Acasta, blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back, and hanged. Adams's miscalculation ignited a political firestorm, only to be fanned by news of Robbins's execution without his constitutional rights of due process and trial by jury. Thomas Jefferson, then vice president and leader of the emergent Republican Party, said, "No one circumstance since the establishment of our government has affected the popular mind more." Congressional Republicans tried to censure Adams, and the Federalist majority, in a bitter blow to the president, were unable to muster a vote of confidence condoning Robbins's surrender. American Sanctuary brilliantly lays out in full detail the story of how the Robbins affair and the presidential campaign of 1800 inflamed the new nation and set in motion a constitutional crisis, resulting in Adams's defeat and Jefferson's election as the third president of the United States. Ekirch writes that the aftershocks of Robbins's martyrdom helped to shape the infant republic's identity in the way Americans envisioned themselves. We see how the Hermione crisis led directly to the country's historic decision to grant political asylum to refugees from foreign governments--a major achievement in fulfilling the resonant promise of American independence, as voiced by Tom Paine, to provide "an asylum for mankind"."--Provided by the publisher. [2017] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133

Results of a scientific mission to India and high Asia : undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV. and MDCCCLVIII., by order of the court of directors of the Honorable East India Company /by Hermann, Adolphe, and Robert de Schlagintweit Schlagintweit-Sakèunlèunski, Hermann von, 1861-66. • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 910.4(540):094

An essay on the war-galleys of the ancients Howell, John 1826 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:629.123.11(37/38)

The Brocktorff mapmakers / Albert Ganado, Joseph Schiráo, Claude Micallef Attard. "TheBrocktorff Mapmakers is an exhibition showing rare broadsheets, books and various reports which wre illustrated with maps and plans drawn and lithographed by the Brocktorff family in the 19th century. The catalogue comprises a scholarly presentation of 138 maps and plans of the Brocktorff family. These are presented in the order of each family member of the Brocktorff dynasty according to their date-of-birth starting from the paterfamilias Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1781-1850) to the youngest member Leopoldo Brocktorff (1826-86). At the end of the catalogue there is also a section of other maps which are Brocktorff-related. The maps are fully described and useful additional historical and cartographical information is also provided."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.9(458.2)

Birds of the sea : 150 years of the General Steam Navigation Company /by Nick Robins. A history of the General Steam Navigation (GSN) company, incorporated in 1824, formed by a small consortium of shipowners, including Thomas Brockelbank, with an original fleet of five Thames steamers. The book includes tables covering fleet disposition in 1826, the main routes served in 1914, losses to enemy action in the First World War, second-hand purchases between 1921-24, and excursion fleets of the New Medway Steam Packet company in 1936. The GSN was aquired by P&O in 1920 and in the 1960s became part of the North Sea Ferries and Normandy Ferries consortiums. Included is a comprehensive fleet list, including separate lists for excursion steamers, the New Medway Steam Packet Company, Moss Hutchison Line, Great Yarmouth Shipping Company, and the Grand Union (Shipping) Company. Illustrated extensively with black-and-white photographs and some colour reproductions. 2007. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 347.792General Steam Navigation Company

The lure of illustration in the nineteenth century : picture and press /edited by Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor. Explores the subject of illustration, technically, metaphorically and historically with reference to nineteenth-century popular periodicals. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 655.533:82-92"18"

Alexander von Humboldt : Eine wissenschaftliche biographie /im verein mit R. Avâe-Lallemant, J.V. Carus, A. Dove, H. W. Dove, J. W. Ewald, A. H. R. Grisebach, J. Lowenberg, O. Peschel, G. H. Wiedmann, W. Wundt bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Karl Bruhns, Professor und Director der sternwarte in Leipzig Bruhns, C 1872. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HUMBOLDT:094

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