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The life and correspondence of the late Admiral Lord Rodney Mundy, Godfrey Basil 1830 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:92Rodney

On the investigation of the orbits of revolving double stars : being a supplement to a paper entitled "micrometrical measures of 364 double stars," Etc. Etc. /by Sir J. F. W. Herschel, K.G.H. Herschel, John F. W.-(John Frederick William),-Sir, 1832 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

China trade and empire : Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the origins of British rule in Hong Kong, 1827-1843 /edited by Alain Le Pichon. A selection of the correspondence from the Jardine Matheson Archive written by or to William Jardine and James Matheson between the years 1827 and 1843. The letters document their business concerns around the tea and opium trades and British exports to China, as well as providing an insight into the commercial, political and economic context of the time. A detailed index of names provides access to individuals and ships connected with the business partners and their operations. The appendices include a glossary of terms, a list of East India Company Ships, their Managing Owners and Commanders 1829-1830, and a listing of the principal characters referenced in the letters. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

National Portrait Gallery of illustrious and eminent personages of the nineteenth century Jerdan, William 1830-1834 • RARE-BOOK • 5 copies available. 762.041.5(42)"18"

A cultural history of the Atlantic world, 1250-1820 / John K. Thornton. "A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 explores the idea that strong links exist in the histories of Africa, Europe and North and South America. John K. Thornton provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830 by describing political, social and cultural interactions between the continents' inhabitants. He traces the backgrounds of the populations on these three continental landmasses brought into contact by European navigation. Thornton then examines the political and social implications of the encounters, tracing the origins of a variety of Atlantic societies and showing how new ways of eating, drinking, speaking and worshipping developed in the newly created Atlantic World. This book uses close readings of original sources to produce new interpretations of its subject."-- 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 930.85(261)"12/18"

Account of the "Traitâe sur le flux et râeflux de la mer," of Daniel Bernoulli : and A treatise on the attraction of ellipsoids /by J. W. Lubbock, Esq. F.R.S. Lubbock, J. W.-(John William), 1830. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094

Observations of nebulµ and clusters of stars : made at Slough, with a twenty-feet reflector, between the years 1825 and 1833 /by Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Knt. Guelp. Herschel, John F. W.-(John Frederick William),-Sir, 1833 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Mathematical Tables; containing the common, hyperbolic, and logisticlogarithm : also tangents, secants, and versed sines both natural and logarithmic. Together with several other tables useful in mathematical calculations. Also the complete description and use of the tables /by Charles Hutton, LL.D. F.R.S. &c., late Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy Hutton, Charles, 1830 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094

A list of test objects, principally double stars : arranged in classes, for the trial of telescopes in various respects, as to light, distinctness, &c. /by Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Knt. Guelp. Herschel, John F. W.-(John Frederick William),-Sir, 1834. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

The elusive Mr Beare and other essays / Nigel Surry. "This collection began with the idea of revising A Portsmouth Canvas: The Art of the City and the Sea 1770-1970 (2008), but by degrees this was abandoned in favour of a closer look at the changing relations between artists, patrons and public in eighteenth-century provincial England, beginning with the activities of George Beare (c. 1725-1749), whose rising talents were tragically cut short by his early death. As his two earliest patrons, Dean Alured Clarke, and John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth had strong Hampshire connections, this inevitably led to a closer look at the varying fortunes of artists in Georgian Hampshire. These essays move on to focus on Portsmouth finishing with a brief examination of its portrayl by painters in Tudor and Stuart times."--Introduction. 2015. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 7(422.7)

Russian California, 1806-1860 : a history in documents /compiled and edited by James R. Gibson and Alexei A. Istomin. "This two-volume book is a documentary history of Russia's 19th-century settlement in California. It contains 492 documents (letters, reports, travel descriptions, censuses, ethnographic and geographical information), mostly translated from the Russian for the first time, very fully annotated, and with an extensive historical introduction, maps, and illustrations, many in colour. This broad range of primary sources provides a comprehensive and detailed history of the Russian Empire's most distant and most exotic outpost, one whose liquidation in 1841 presaged St Petersburg's abandonment of all of Russian America in 1867. Russia from the sixteenth century onwards had steadily expanded eastwards in search of profitable resources. This expansion was rapid, eased not only by the absence of foreign opposition and disunity of the native peoples but also by Siberia's river network and the North Pacific's convenient causeway of the Aleutian chain leading to Alaska. It was paid for largely by the 'soft gold' of Siberian sables and Pacific sea otters. By the end of the 1700s, however, on the Northwest Coast of North America the Russians met increasing opposition from the indigenous people (Tlingits) and foreign rivals (American and English fur-trading vessels). This combination soon depleted the coast of sea otters, and at the same time the Russians were finding it ever more expensive to obtain supplies from Europe by overland transport across Siberia or round-the-world voyages, so under the aegis of the monopolistic Russian-American Company (1799) they leapfrogged southward to the frontera del norte of the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain. Here, in 1812, they founded Russian California (officially, Ross Counter) as a base for hunting the Californian sea otter, growing grain and rearing stock, and trading with the Spanish missions. Eventually the exclave comprised a fort (Ross), a port (Bodega), five farms, and a hunting and birding station on the Farallon Islands, as well as a shipyard, a tannery, and a brickworks. The successes and failures of these enterprises, the perils of navigation, experiments in agriculture, the personal, political and economic problems of the colony, and Russian engagement with the indigenous population all come to life in these pages."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22HAKLUYT

The battle for the migrants : the introduction of steamshipping on the North Atlantic and its impact on the European exodus /Torsten Feys. Feys, Torsten. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.2(73)"18/19"

The Aberdeen Line : George Thompson Jnr's Incomparable Shipping Enterprise /Peter H. King A history of the Aberdeen Line founded in 1825 by George Thompson Jnr. The business developed rapidly from its initial operations in the North Atlantic, Baltic and UK coastal trade routes to provide services to South America and Australia by the mid-1840s. The line is famous for its fast clipper Thermopylae, rival to the Cutty Sark, launched in 1848 and its first steamship, SS Aberdeen, launched in 1881. Facing fierce competition on its Australian routes, the company was restructured with the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (White Star Line) and Shaw Savill and Albion taking effective control in 1906 and fully acquiring the company in 1920. The Aberdeen name survived later takeovers first by the Royal Mail Group and then Furness Withy, continuing as the renamed Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line following the acquisition of the Australian Commonwealth Line. However, when the Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line ceased trading in 1957 the name disappeared. Appendices include a corporate chronology, family trees of the Thompson and Henderson families involved in the Aberdeen Line, and a fleet list of vessels owned or managed by the company. The book is illustrated throughout. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.792ABERDEEN

Gender, morality, and race in Company India, 1765-1858 / Joseph Sramek. "Between 1765 and 1858, British imperialists in India obsessed continuously about gaining and preserving Indian "opinion" of British moral and racial prestige. Weaving political, intellectual, cultural, and gender history together in an innovative approach, Gender, morality, and race in Company India, 1765-1858 examines imperial anxieties regarding British moral misconduct in India ranging from debt and gift giving to drunkenness and irreligion and points out their wider relationship to the structuring of British colonialism. Showing a pervasive fear among imperial elites of losing "mastery" over India, as well as a deep distrust of Indian civil and military subordinates through whom they ruled, Sramek demonstrates how much of the British Raj's notable racial arrogance after 1858 can in fact be traced back into the preceding Company period of colonial rule. Rather than the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857 ushering in a more racist form of colonialism, this book powerfully suggests far greater continuity between the two periods of colonial rule than scholars have hitherto generally recognized"-- 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.3(42:52)"1765/1858"

The Campbelltown convicts / Peter J. Hinds. "On 19 March 1818, a young man called John Champley was committed to the House of Correction in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, for two years hard labour. He had been convicted of being a party to the theft of eighty pounds of butt leather in Pocklington on 13 December 1817. Four months later, after an attempted escape from the House of Correction, he was sentenced to transportation to one of His Majesty's 'Plantations or Colonies abroad'. Champley arrived in the penal colony of Sydney Cove on Thursday 7 October 1819 and was assigned to a shoemaker at Parramatta. After receiving his freedom in May 1826, Champley left Parramatta -- with the shoemaker's wife. Early in 1829, Champley and his family left Sydney to live at Bong Bong. In February 1830, following a robbery at the nearby Oldbury estate, Champley and his two alleged accomplices, John Yates and Joseph Shelvey, were sentenced to death at Campbelltown. They were saved from the gallows upon appeal by their barrister and their death penalties commuted to 'life and hard labour in irons'. Champley and Shelvey were sent to Norfolk Island, and Yates to Moreton Bay. About a year later, two captured bushrangers from Jack Donohoe's gang made confessions concerning the robbery and Champley, Shelvey and Yates were brought home and pardoned. However, the trial and incarceration had by now reduced their lives from one of hope to one of despair."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.51(944)

The just vengeance of heaven exemplified in a journal lately found by Captain Mawson (Commander of the ship Compton) on the Island of Ascension as he was homeward bound from India : in which is a full and exact relation of the author's being set on shore there (by order of the Commodore and Captains of the Dutch fleet) for a most enormous crime he had been guilty of, and the extreme and unparalleled hardships, sufferings and misery he endured from the time of his being left there to that of his death ; all wrote with his own hand and found lying near the skeleton. [1830?] • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 343.25:92

Slave portraiture in the Atlantic world / edited by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Angela Rosenthal. "Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888"-- 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 75.041.5(261)

Voyages with a merchant prince : secrets of the Ripley diary /J.M. & M.F. Hutchinson. "If it should be a pirate, we had a fine ship, well armed and plenty of men to use the arms, what had we to fear? Accordingly, all hands were set to make preparations for defence against an enemy. The bosun got ready the great guns, the arms chest was unlocked - muskets, swords, handspikes, pistols, all in demand ...' The Ripley Diary, 12th July 1830. A sailing ship on a voyage that would make a fortune. On board - an ambitious shipowner, his flirtatious young wife, and a crew on the verge of mutiny. Smuggling, piracy and shipwreck are all encountered on this amazing journey. For the first time, the remarkable Ripley Diary is in print. It documents an astonishing voyage to a secret destination in China. This original nineteenth-century text is unique, revealing the early days of free trade in defiance of the edicts of the Emperor of China. It is a national treasure. Enjoy the story of Thomas Ripley, hailed by the Liverpool Chronicle as 'one of our most successful merchant princes', a man who rose from rags to riches. Share the thrill of watching whales and dolphins, the excitement of racing a rival ship to Java, and the delights of exotic locations. If you want to know the truth about life on a sailing ship in the nineteenth century, then read this book. Find out why some of the men were pressed into the British Navy and others were clapped in irons. Discover for yourself the secrets of the Ripley Diary, secrets hidden for 180 years."--Back cover. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92RIPLEY

"Dann sprang er èuber Bord" : Alltagspsychologie und psychische Erkrankung an Bord britischer Schiffe im 19. Jahrhundert /Karl-Heinz Reger. "Our fascination with big sailing ships is unbroken. In the extensive social-historical literature of naval history the question of how everyday life on board was psychologically experienced is totally uncharted, so is the description of psychological diseases. On the contrary, it must be assumed that a variety of psychological disorders occurred among the mostly young crew members of the sometimes completely closed system 'ship'. The ship was 'world' for the men on board. Karl-Heinz Reger systematically examines the medical journals of the Royal Navy from the time between 1830 and 1880. Due to the double access of the psychiatrist and the historian a large number of phenomena are illustrated. After studying everyday life on board from a psychological point of view the author shows the various disorders including the phenomena of drowning and suicide. All illnesses known in modern neuro-psychiatry are to be found. Not only are 120 cases with exemplary transcriptions of the stylistically excellent English original text presented, but also all therapeutical efforts are described and the complete list of all medicines (including annotations) used on board is given. A psychoanalytical interpretation of the psychological strain and its techniques of compensation forms the final chapter."--Provided by the publisher. c2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Dumont d'Urville, explorer & polymath / Edward Duyker. "Explorer Jules-Sâebastien-Câesar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) is sometimes called France's Captain Cook. Born less than a year after the beginning of the French Revolution, he lived through turbulent times. He was an erudite polymath: a maritime explorer fascinated by botany, entomology, ethnography and the diverse languages of the world. As a young ensign he was decorated for his pivotal part in France's acquisition of the famous Vâenus de Milo. D'Urville's voyages and writings meshed with an emergent French colonial impulse in the Pacific. In this magnificent biography Edward Duyker reveals that D'Urville had secret orders to search for the site for a potential French penal colony in Australia. He also effectively helped to precipitate pre-emptive British settlement on several parts of the Australian coast. D'Urville visited New Zealand in 1824, 1827 and 1840. This wide-ranging survey examines his scientific contribution, including the plants and animals he collected, and his conceptualisation of the peoples of the Pacific: it was he who first coined the terms Melanesia and Micronesia. D'Urville helped to confirm the fate of the missing French explorer Lapâerouse, took Charles X into exile after the Revolution of 1830, and crowned his navigational achievements with two pioneering Antarctic descents. Edward Duyker has used primary documents that have long been overlooked by other historians. He dispels many myths and errors about this daring explorer of the age of sail and offers his readers grand adventure and surprising drama and pathos."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92D'URVILLE

Surviving slavery in the British Caribbean / Randy M. Browne. "Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and their descendants struggled to survive against their enslavers, their environment, and sometimes one another. Grounded in the nineteenth-century British colony of Berbice, one of the Atlantic world's best-documented slave societies and the last frontier of slavery in the British Caribbean, Browne argues that the central problem for most enslaved people was not how to resist or escape slavery but simply how to stay alive. Guided by the voices of hundreds of enslaved people preserved in an extraordinary set of legal records, Browne reveals a world of Caribbean slavery that is both brutal and breathtakingly intimate. Field laborers invoked abolitionist-inspired legal reforms to protest brutal floggings, spiritual healers conducted secretive nighttime rituals, anxious drivers weighed the competing pressures of managers and the condition of their fellow slaves in the fields, and women fought back against abusive masters and husbands. Browne shows that at the core of enslaved people's complicated relationships with their enslavers and one another was the struggle to live in a world of death."--Provided by the publisher 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.4

The Polar sale : Scott & Amundsen centenary :Friday 30 March 2012 at 2 pm, Knightsbridge, London. Bonhams (Firm : 2001) 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Science serialized : representation of the sciences in nineteenth-century periodicals /edited by Geoffrey Cantor and Sally Shuttleworth. "The essays collected in Science serialized examine the variety of ways in which the nineteenth-century periodical press represented science to general and specialised readerships.... Among the subjects discussed are the presentation of botany in women's magazines, the highly public dispute between Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler, the mind-body problem, and energy physics."--Dust-jacket. c2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 5(05)"19"

The social life of maps in America, 1750-1860 / Martin Brèuckner. "In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A "carto-coded" America - a nation in which maps are pervasive and meaningful - had to be created. The Social Life of Maps tracks American cartography's spectacular rise to its unprecedented cultural influence. Between 1750 and 1860, maps did more than communicate geographic information and political pretensions. They became affordable and intelligible to ordinary American men and women looking for their place in the world. School maps quickly entered classrooms, where they shaped reading and other cognitive exercises; giant maps drew attention in public spaces; miniature maps helped Americans chart personal experiences. In short, maps were uniquely social objects whose visual and material expressions affected commercial practices and graphic arts, theatrical performances and the communication of emotions. This lavishly illustrated study follows popular maps from their points of creation to shops and galleries, schoolrooms and coat pockets, parlors and bookbindings. Between the decades leading up to the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, early Americans bonded with maps; Martin Bruckner's comprehensive history of quotidian cartographic encounters is the first to show us how."--Provided by the publisher. [2017] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 526.0973/09034

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