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Micrometrical measures of 364 double stars : with a seven-feet equatorial achromatic telescope: taken at Slough, in the years 1828, 1829, 1830 /by J.F.W. Herschel, Esq. M.A.; F.R.S. Herschel, John F. W.-(John Frederick William),-Sir, 1832. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Iron shipbuilding on the Thames 1812-1915 : an economic and business history /A J Arnold Arnold, A J 2000 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.12-034.1(282.242.4)"1832/1915"

A memoir of the late Captain Peter Heywood, R.N. : with extracts from his diaries and correspondence /by Edward Tagart. Tagart, Edward 1832. • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:92Heywood

A treatise on astronomy theoretical and practical Woodhouse, Robert 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 52:094

Leaves from memory's log-book and jottings from old journals Recollections of Rear Admiral Frederick Byng Montresor (1811-1887) covering his naval career, firstly as a midshipman on board the Cambridge, Ramilies, Gloucester, Ocean, Isis, Southampton and HMS Zebra and then as a lieutenant, his duties in the West Indies on the President, Wasp, Magnificent, Forte, Melville, Champion and Winchester. Later chapters cover his command of HMS Pickle, Wanderer, Cygnet, Calypso and Severn. His voyages included passages to the West Indies, South America, Africa, Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand, India, Japan, China and Hong Kong. His encounters with the people he met and his observations on trading patterns are also described. Reflecting on visits in 1832 to New Zealand, Tahiti and Tonga, the author, for example, recollects meeting missionaries such as Henry Williams, Maori, the Tahitian Queen and Royal Family, and the King of Tonga. His many anecdotes include the story of Jack Rio, a former slave turned sailor from Brazil, who after a career of seven years with the Navy was revealed as a woman. Also included is a description of the author's visit to the Pitcairn Islands in the 1860s where he met descendants of the Bounty mutineers. 1887 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124(42)"18"

The Quid : or tales of my messmates, being a colection of yarns, ditties, quid-ditties, and od-ditties, by a steerage passenger /[by Tomkins ; ill. J. Meadows]. [Tomkins] 1832. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 820-82:094

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

Jardine Matheson : traders of the far east A history of Jardine Matheson covering the period between 1832, when the company was founded, and 1949, when the company was expelled from mainland China following the Communist revolution. Based originally in Canton (Guangzhou), the company soon moved to Hong Kong where it has continued to operate, the only company to pre-date the Treaty of Nanking, which opened China to foreign commerce in 1842. Set against the wider context of Sino-British history, the author examines the company's history alongside key events such as the ending of the East India Company's monopoly, the Opium wars, the development of Hong Kong, the introduction of railways to China, the Sino-Japanese Wars, the Boxer rebellion and the First and Second World Wars. 1999 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 347.79JARDINE MATHESON

The pretender of Pitcairn Island : Joshua W. Hill - the man who would be king among the Bounty mutineers /Tillman W. Nechtman. This book provides a detailed account of the life of Joshua W Hill, an American adventurer who served as the self-appointed leader of Pitcairn Island, populated by the descendants of mutineers on the Bounty, under controversial circumstances between 1832 and 1838. The author uses this incident as background to explore the broader history of British imperialism and colonialism, both on Pitcairn and in the Pacific region more generally. Includes black and white illustrations throughout. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HILL, JOSHUA

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

Calculations relating to the equipment, displacement, etc, of ships and vessels of war Edye, John 1832 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:629.12.071

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

Life on the edge : Peter Danckwerts GC MBE FRS, brave, shy, brilliant /by Peter Varey. A biography of Peter Danckwerts (1916-1984). Educated at Winchester College and Oxford, Danckwerts volunteered in July 1940 for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, receiving training in bomb disposal. Following a period during which he was responsible for dealing with unexploded bombs and mines in the Thames Estuary, Danckwerts received a George Cross for his work defusing unexploded parachute bombs during the London Blitz. In 1942 he was posted to Sicily but was injured in a minefield and returned to England, joining the Combined Operations Headquarters. He received an MBE in December 1942 for his 'gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty'. After the end of the war, Danckwerts studied chemical engineering at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology, later working for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. He went on to become a professor of chemical engineering science at Imperial College London and then, from 1959, Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cambridge. Danckwerts served as president of the Institution of Chemical Engineering in 1965 and 1966, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969, and following his retirement in 1977 became executive editor of the journal Chemical Engineering Science. An appendix contains Danckwerts' case for recognising Sadi Carnot (1796-1832) as the first to postulate the First Law of Thermodynamics and formulate the Second. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92DANCKWERTS

Miscellaneous works and correspondence / of the Rev James Bradley, D.D. F.R.S., Astronomer Royal, Savilian professor of astronomy in the University of Oxford Bradley, James 1832-3 • RARE-FOLIO • 3 copies available. 92Bradley

Fragments of voyages and travels : 2nd series Hall, Basil, 1832 • RARE-BOOK • 6 copies available. 094:910.4"18"

A new universal dictionary of the marine : being a copious explanation of the technical terms and phrases usually employed in the construction, equipment, machinery, movements, and military, as well as naval, operations of ships [...] to which is annexed a vocabulary of French sea-phrases and terms of art collected by the best authorities /originally compiled by William Falconer ; modernized and much enlarged by William Burney. Falconer, William, 1815. • RARE-FOLIO • 6 copies available. 629.12(038):094

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 1832 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:92Seaward

Ephemeris of the distances of the four planets, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, from the Moon's centre : together with their places for every day in the year 1834 to which is added an ephemeris of the Moon calculated for every third hour of mean Greenwich time upon Damoiseau's tables, the culminations of the Moon for every day in 1834 for the altona meridian, with auxiliay quantities to reduce it to other meridians and tables for finding the latitude by the Polestar for 1834 /Calculated under the direction of H. C. Schumacher Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1832 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527(083.5)"1834":094

An account of the measurement of two sections of the meridional arc of India, bounded by the parallels of 18 3' 15"; 24 7' 11" & 29 30' 48" : Conducted under the orders of the Honourable East-India Company Everest :-Lieut.-Colonel 1847 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 527.09:094

Pirates and mutineers of the nineteenth century : swashbucklers and swindlers /edited by Grace Moore. This collection examines changes in the representation of the pirate from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the late Victorian period. Gone were the dangerous ruffians of the eighteenth-century novel and in their place emerged a set of brooding and lovable rogues, as exemplified by Byron's Corsair.... Linking the pirate's development as a literary figure with the history of piracy and the making of the modern state tells us much about race, class, and evolving gender relationships. While individual chapters examine key texts like Treasure Island, Dickens's 1857 'mutiny' story in Household Words, and Peter Pan, the collection as a whole interrogates the growth of pirate myths and folklore throughout the nineteenth century and the depiction of their nautical heirs in contemporary literature and culture.--From publisher description. [2011]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1"18"

Reappraisals of British colonisation in Atlantic Canada, 1700-1930 / edited by S. Karly Kehoe and Michael E. Vance. "Investigates the contested legacies of British colonisation on Canada's Atlantic coast. Engages with the legacy of British colonisation in Atlantic Canada across three sections. Situates the Scottish experience within process of British colonisation, challenging the tendency to omit the Scots from critical explorations of the colonisation process in this region. Exposes the reader to a range of experiences from across the four Atlantic Provinces, which will encourage more exciting new research. Chapters are grouped in three main sections: Dispossession and Settlement; Religion and Identity; Reappraising Memory. This collection offers new perspectives on the legacy of British colonisation by concentrating on Atlantic Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island), a region that was pivotal to safeguarding Britain's imperial ambitions, between 1750 and 1930. New and established researchers from Canada, Scotland and the United States engage with the core themes of migration, dispossession, religion, identity, and commemoration in a way that diverges markedly from existing scholarship. The research shines much-needed light on groups traditionally excluded from Britain's broader imperial narrative, highlighting the indigenous experience and the presence and agency of slaves, free people of colour and religious minorities"--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 971.502

Small boats and daring men : maritime raiding, irregular warfare, and the early American Navy /Benjamin Armstrong. "Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, and striking enemy facilities and resources on shore. Even John Paul Jones, father of the American navy, saw such irregular operations as critical to naval warfare. With Jones's own experience as a starting point, Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate naval history. This book, the first historical study of its kind, makes a compelling case for raiding and irregular naval warfare as key elements in the story of American sea power. Beginning with the Continental Navy, Small Boats and Daring Men traces maritime missions through the wars of the early republic, from the coast of modern-day Libya to the rivers and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay. At the same time, Armstrong examines the era's conflicts with nonstate enemies and threats to American peacetime interests along Pacific and Caribbean shores. Armstrong brings a uniquely informed perspective to his subject; and his work-with reference to original naval operational reports, sailors' memoirs and diaries, and officers' correspondence-is at once an exciting narrative of danger and combat at sea and a thoroughgoing analysis of how these events fit into concepts of American sea power. Offering a critical new look at the naval history of the Early American era, this book also raises fundamental questions for naval strategy in the twenty-first century."--Provided by publisher. 2019 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(73)

Staying power : the history of black people in Britain /Peter Fryer "'STAYING POWER is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of two thousand years of Black presence in Britain. First published in the 1980s, amidst race riots and police brutality, Fryer's history performed a deeply political act; revealing how Africans, Asians and their descendants had long been erased from British history. By rewriting black Britons into the British story, showing where they influenced political traditions, social institutions and cultural life, was - and is - a deeply effective counter to a racist and nationalist agenda.This new edition includes the classic introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of 'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack', in addition to a brand-new foreword by Guardian journalist Gary Younge, which examines the book's continued significance today as we face Brexit and a revival of right wing nationalism."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 305.896041

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