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Science, utility and maritime power : Samuel Bentham in Russia, 1779-91 /Roger Morriss. "During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Samuel Bentham influenced both the technology and the administrative ideas employed in the management of the British navy. His influence stemmed from his passion for science, from his desire to achieve improvements based on a belief in the principle of Utility, and from experience gained over eleven years in Russia, a large part in the service of Catherine the Great and Prince Potemkin. Having travelled extensively throughout the north and south of Russia, Poland and Siberia, he managed Potemkina (TM)s industries at Krichev, built fast river galleys, armed the Russian flotilla of small craft at Kherson and served with the flotilla that defeated the Turks in the Black Sea. His main ambition was to open river communication in Siberia and develop trade into the Pacific. However he returned to England and in 1796 became Inspector General of Naval Works, a post in which he fought for innovations in the technology and management of the British royal dockyards. Regarded then by the Navy Board as a dangerous maverick, this book reveals the experiences, creativity and thinking that made him a major figure in British naval development."--Provided by the publisher. [2015]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BENTHAM

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle / Charles Darwin. "Even before Charles Darwin changed the world with his theory of natural selection, he was recognised as an eminent scientist and natural historian. Published in 1840, and reproduced here from the first edition, his Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle reveals him as a writer of formidable intelligence and a keen observer of natural and human life. Darwin's journal encompasses every observable detail of the animals, birds and plants he encountered on the five-year voyage. It includes minute descriptions and even sketches of the movements and habits of hitherto unfamiliar species. Accompanying the entries are his own conclusions, analyses and classificatory notes that demonstrate his skill and talent as a naturalist. Darwin's entries on natural phenomena are interspersed with anecdotes of the indigenous peoples he encountered, transforming his journal from an impersonal scientific record to a book of true human interest."--Back cover. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(100)"1831/1836"

The eventful history of the mutiny and piratical seizure of HMS Bounty : its cause and consequences Barrow, John, Sir 1831 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:355.133"1789"

Diccionario maritimo espanol : que ademas de las definiciones de las voces con sus equivalentes en frances, ingles e italiano, contiene tres vocabularios de estos idiomas con las correspondencias castellanos. 1831. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61:800.866

Histoire des recherches sur la quadrature du cercle, avec une addition concernant les problemes de la duplication du cube et de la trisection de l'angle Montucla 1831 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094

The nautical almanac for the year ... • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.

Sir Edward Seaward's narrative of his shipwreck, and consequent discovery of certain islands in the Caribbean sea; with a detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting events in his life, from the year 1733 to 1749 as written in his own diary Seaward, Edward, Sir 1831 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Seaward

Observations, illustrative of a memoir on a new armament for the 42 and 46 gun frigates ... which would convert them from 18 pounder to 32 pounder frigates; also some remarks on furnishing these ... with a proportion of bomb cannon, in the shape of 68 pr carronades / by S. Read. Read, S 1831. • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 623.94

Journal of a cruise of the United States schooner Dolphin among the islands of the Pacific Ocean and a visit to the Mulgrave Islands, in pursuit of the mutineers of the whale ship Globe Paulding, Hiram 1970 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133"1824"

Fragments of voyages and travels : including anecdotes of a naval life ... Hall, Basil, 1831 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:910.4"18"

Journal of voyages and travels by the Rev Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet, deputed from the London Missionary Society to visit their various stations in the South Sea Islands, China, India, etc, between the years 1821 and 1829 Montgomery, James (comp) 1831 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(96)"1821/1829"

Die Entdeckungen der Carthager und Griechen auf dem atlantischen Ocean / Lelewel, Joachim. 1964. Lelewel, Joachim 1964 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 910.4:931

J.F. Encke's astronomische Abhandlungen : zusammengestellt aus den Jahrgèangen 1830 bis 1862 des Berliner astronomischen Jahrbuches nebst drei in diesen Jahrgèangen enthaltenen Abhandlungen /von Bessel, Olbers, und Bremicker. 1866. • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 52"1830/1862":094

Hawaiian national bibliography 1780-1900 2000- • BOOK • 3 copies available. 015(969)

Nelson : love & fame /Edgar Vincent. "The story of Horatio Nelson's life - his naval glory, public fame, charismatic leadership, scandalous romance, and untimely death as he led the British to victory at the Battle of Trafalgar - has ensured his enduring position as England's favourite hero. This engaging, full-length biography of Nelson (1758-1805) presents a gripping account of his climb to fame as well as the fascinating details of his personal and emotional life. A man of contradictions, Nelson emerges in this biography as a ruthless and aggressive leader, the epitome of a fighting commander; an ambitious attention-seeker capable of self-pity, self-delusion, and childish behaviour; yet to be admired for his transcendent courage, kindness and leadership skills, which inspired love and affection in those he led." "The author offers new interpretations of Nelson's victories to illustrate his grasp of today's concept of mission-command two centuries ahead of his time; his disobedience of his Commander-in-Chief's orders; and his part in the bloody and chaotic Neapolitan counter-revolution. Vincent also analyzes the motives and attitudes of key figures who surrounded him, among them Earl Spencer, Earl St. Vincent, Sir William Hamilton, and Thomas Troubridge. Interwoven with the events of Nelson's career is his emotional journey, his early infatuations, his courtship and marriage with Frances Nisbet, and his all-consuming affair with his mistress Lady Hamilton, one of the most celebrated beauties of the eighteenth century and the mother of his child."--BOOK JACKET. c2003. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92NELSON

Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's narrative of a second voyage in the Victory, in search of a North-West Passage ... Braithwaite, John 1835 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123Victory

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

A topographical dictionary of England... / by Samuel Lewis. Lewis, Samuel, 1831. • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 914.2(03)

Explanation and answer to Mr John Braithwaite's Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's narrative of a second voyage in the Victory, in search of a North-West Passage Ross, John,-Sir, 1835. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123Victory

Britain's war against the slave trade : the operations of the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron, 1807-1867 /Anthony Sullivan. "Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, Romans, Vikings and Arabs were among the earliest of many peoples involved in the slave trade, and across Africa the buying and selling of slaves was widespread. There was, at the time, nothing unusual in Britain's somewhat belated entry into the slave trade, transporting natives from Africa's west coast to the plantations of the New World. What was unusual was Britain's decision, in 1807, to ban the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Britain later persuaded other countries to follow suit, but this did not stop this lucrative business. So the Royal Navy went to war against the slavers, in due course establishing the West Africa Squadron which was based at Freetown in Sierra Leone. This force grew throughout the nineteenth century until a sixth of the Royal Navy's ships and marines was employed in the battle against the slave trade. Between 1808 and 1860, the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans. The slavers tried every tactic to evade the Royal Navy enforcers. Over the years that followed more than 1,500 naval personnel died of disease or were killed in action, in what was difficult and dangerous, and at times saddening, work. In Britain's War Against the Slave Trade, naval historian Anthony Sullivan reveals the story behind this little-known campaign by Britain to end the slave trade. Whereas Britain is usually, and justifiably, condemned for its earlier involvement in the slave trade, the truth is that in time the Royal Navy undertook a major and expensive operation to end what was, and is, an evil business."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.362

Art and celebrity in the age of Reynolds & Siddons / Heather McPherson. "In this volume, Heather McPherson examines the connections among portraiture, theater, the visual arts, and fame to shed light on the emergence of modern celebrity culture in eighteenth-century England. Popular actors in Georgian London, such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, and John Philip Kemble, gave larger-than-life performances at Drury Lane and Covent Garden; their offstage personalities garnered as much attention through portraits painted by leading artists, sensational stories in the press, and often-vicious caricatures. Likewise, artists such as Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Lawrence figured prominently outside their studios - in polite society and the emerging public sphere. McPherson considers this increasing interest in theatrical and artistic celebrities and explores the ways in which aesthetics, cultural politics, and consumption combined during this period to form a media-driven celebrity culture that is surprisingly similar to celebrity obsessions in the world today. This richly researched study draws on a wide variety of period sources, from newspaper reviews and satirical pamphlets to caricatures and paintings by Reynolds and Lawrence as well as Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, and Angelica Kauffman. These transport the reader to eighteenth-century London and the dynamic venues where art and celebrity converged with culture and commerce. Interweaving art history, history of performance, and cultural studies, Art and Celebrity in the Age of Reynolds and Siddons offers important insights into the intersecting worlds of artist and actor, studio and stage, high art and popular visual culture."--Provided by the publisher. [2017] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 757.09421/09033

Cavendish : or the patrician at sea Neale, W. Johnson-(William Johnson), 1832 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 820-3

"Fast sailing and copper-bottomed" : Aberdeen sailing ships and the emigrant Scots they carried to Canada, 1774-1855 /Lucille H. Campey. Campey, Lucille H. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.2(410.5:71)

On the undulatory theory of optics : designed for the use of students in the university /by George Biddell Airy, M.A. Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1866. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 535:094

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