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Advice to proprietors on the care of valuable pictures painted in oil : with instructions for preserving, cleaning and restoring them when damaged or decayed 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:75.025.4

Plates descriptive of the maritime flags of all nations Norie, J. W.-(John William), 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:929.9.024.2

Oriental visions : exhibitions, travel, and collecting in the Victorian age /Nicky Levell. "A richly illustrated and unique contribution to the fields of critical museology, the history of collecting, and cultural studies, in general. Through the biography of Frederick John Horniman (1835-1906), a Victorian traveller, collector, and Museum founder, this work critically reconstructs and explores the dynamic cultural network of individuals and institutions; touristic and collecting practices; textual and exhibitionary media, which interacted and generated images of the exotic Orient. Starting in the leafy suburbs of south London, this study begins by examining the afterlife of the world renowned Crystal Palace, which had housed the world's first Great Exhibition. Following its move from Hyde Park to Sydenham in the mid-1850s, this immense glass structure soon became a popular tourist destination, attracting more than a million visitors every year and transforming its once isolated rural surrounds into fashionable residential areas. Levell specifically focuses on the powerful, though selective, representations of the distant Orient at the People's Palace, which enchanted Victorian sightseers, artists, collectors, and travellers. She then looks in detail at the spectacular displays of the British Empire's 'Eastern Possessions' at the hugely popular Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886 in South Kensington. Together these two exhibitionary complexes, with their visually striking images of the Orient, guided Frederick Horniman's travels and also influenced the type of material that he acquired for his private Museum, which was located in Forest Hill, a short distance from the Crystal Palace. From exhibitions and collections, this monograph then moves on to explore travel and collecting. Drawing on the journal that Frederick Horniman kept during his world tours, a fascinating and richly illustrated account is given of the Victorian tourist's travels in India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Japan, China, Burma (Union of Myanmar), and Egypt, describing the places he visited, the peoples he encountered, and the objects he collected. Finally, attention is turned to the extensive oriental collections, which were assembled by Horniman over a forty-year period, and placed on public display in his twenty-four room Museum. In their museal setting, these exhibits, which had been acquired from dealers, auction houses, international exhibitions, missionaries, travellers, and colonial officials, both at home and abroad, conjured up striking and alluring visions of the Orient."--Provided by the publisher. 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.074"18/19"

The Geography of the heavens Burritt, Elijah H 1981? • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available. 524.3(084)

Commercial directory of the lower ward of Renfrewshire for 1834-35 ... Fowler, G 1835? • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:914.141(058.7)

A code of universal naval signals ... in which are included night signals ... Phillipps, H Cranmer 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:627.72(100)"1835"

The Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney etc Inglis, Henry David 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:914.234

Memoire sur les courants de La Manche, de La Mer d'Allemagne et du Canal de Saint-George Monnier, P 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:551.465.5(261.2)

Historical and descriptive sketches of the towns and principal villages in the upper ward of Renfrewshire 1835? • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.141

The Semidiurnal tides in the northern part of the Indian Ocean Harris, R A 1903 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.466

Die wunder des himmels, uber gemeinfabliche darstellung des weltsnstems Littrow, J.J. 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Astronomische abhandlungen Schumacher, H C 1823 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Traite de physique experimentale et mathematique Biot, J.B. 1816 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 531:094

The Bible atlas, with ancient and modern names, being a delineation of the geography, and a chronological arrangement of the history of the Holy Bible Arrowsmith, Samuel 1835 • ATLAS-FOL • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(33)

Narrative of the wreck of the Lady Munro, on the desolate Island of Amsterdam, October 1833 M'Cosh, J 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:656.61.085.3Lady Munroe

Dissertatio de gravitate atheris Bernoulli, Jacob 1683 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

James Cook navigator and the Endeavour story HM Bark Endeavour Foundation Pty 1993 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.82Endeavour

A copy of verses on the dreadful hardships and privation of the unfortunate seamen who are now confined with their ships, by the ice, in the desolate regions of Davis' Straits ... 1978 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.25:820-1

On the laws of the rise and fall of the sea's surface during each tide Whewell, William 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:551.466

Die beugungserscheinungen aus den fundamentalgesetzen der undulationstheorie analytisch entwickelt und in bildern dargestellt Schwerd, F M 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 535:094

Voyage of the United States frigate Potomac, under the command of Commodore John Downes, during the circumnavigation of the globe, in the years 1831, 1832, 1833 and 1834 Reynolds, J N 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(100)"1831/1834"

Report of the Commissioner of Patents ... on the subject of steam boiler explosions United States.-Congress.---Senate 1948 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 31(73)"18":382

Polly Woodside : self guided tour Polly Woodside Maritime Museum [ca. 2000] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.123POLLY WOODSIDE

Interesting and authentic narratives of the most remarkable shipwrecks, fires, famines ... on the seas, in most parts of the world Thomas, R 1970 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3

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