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The letter bag of the Great Western; or, Life in a steamer.By the author of "The sayings and doings of Samuel Slick." Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1840. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-32
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"
Life of the late George Vason of Nottingham : one of the troop of missionaries first sent to the South Sea Islands by the London Missionary Society in the ship Duff, Captain Wilson, 1796 ... Orange, James 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 266(96)
Report of the Committee of Physics and Meteorology ... relative to the observations to be made in the Antarctic expedition and in the magnetic observatories Royal Society. Committee of Physics and Meteorology 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:550.38
Theakston's guide to Scarborough : comprising a brief sketch of the antiquities, natural productions and romantic scenery of the town and neighbourhood Theakston, Solomon Wilkinson 1843 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:914.274(026)
Report from select Committee on Merchant Seamen's Fund with the minutes of evidence Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 1840 • • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22:361.7
Voyages of the Dutch brig of war Dourga through the southern and little-known parts of the Moluccan Archipelago and along the previously unknown southern coast of New Guinea performed during the years 1825 and 1826 Kolff, D H 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(91)"1825/1826"
Types of naval officers drawn from the history of the British navy : with some account of the conditions of naval warfare at the beginning of the eighteenth century and its subsequent development ... Mahan, A. T.-(Alfred Thayer), 1902 • BOOK • 5 copies available. 92:355.333.3
Native claims : indigenous law against empire, 1500-1920 /edited by Saliha Belmessous. "This groundbreaking collection of essays shows that, from the moment European expansion commenced through to the twentieth century, indigenous peoples from America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand drafted legal strategies to contest dispossession. The story of indigenous resistance to European colonization is well known. But legal resistance has been wrongly understood to be a relatively recent phenomenon. These essays demonstrate how indigenous peoples throughout the world opposed colonization not only with force, but also with ideas. They made claims to territory using legal arguments drawn from their own understanding of a law that applies between peoples--a kind of law of nations, comparable to that being developed by Europeans. The contributors to this volume argue that in the face of indigenous legal arguments, European justifications of colonization should be understood not as an original and originating legal discourse but, at least in part, as a form of counter-claim. Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920 brings together the work of eminent social and legal historians, literary scholars, and philosophers, including Rolena Adorno, Lauren Benton, Duncan Ivison, and Kristin Mann. Their combined expertise makes this volume uniquely expansive in its coverage of a crucial issue in global and colonial history. The various essays treat sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Latin America, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America (including the British colonies and French Canada), and nineteenth-century Australasia and Africa. There is no other book that examines the issue of European dispossession of native peoples in such a way"--Provided by publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 342.724"1500/1920"-0546
Outline of the method of conducting a trigonometrical survey for the formation of topographical plans ... with the explanation and solution of some of the most useful problems in geodesy and practical astronomy Frome, Lieutenant 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:528.42:514.116
Narrative of a whaling voyage round the globe, from the year 1833 to 1836 ... with an account of southern whales, the sperm whale fishery and the natural history of the climates visited : volume 1 Bennet, Frederick Debell 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:639.245.1
Ueber Hofe und Nebensonnen / von G. Galle (Schluss von Seite 31) Galle, G. 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094
Barlow's tables of squares, cubes, square roots, cube roots and reciprocals of all integers up to 10,000 Barlow, Peter, 1851 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 519.66:094
A concise account of the loss of the Royal George at Spithead, 1782 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:656.61.085.3Royal George
Archeologie navale Jal, A 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 656.61"...16"
Statistical reports on the health of the Navy, for the years 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, and 1836. 1841. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.6:311
Observations made at the Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope : vol 1 1841-1846 Sabine, Edward,-Sir, 1851 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 520.1(687)-13
On eclipses / by Mr. W. S. B. Woolhouse. Head assistant on the Nautical Almanac Establishment Woolhouse, W. S. B.-(Wesley Stoker Barker), circa 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094
Narrative of a voyage to Java, China and the great Loo-Choo Island : with accounts of Sir Murray Maxwell's attack on the Chinese batteries and of an interview with Napoleon Buonaparte at St Helena Hall, Basil, 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:98"1820/1822"
Directions for laying off ships on the mould loft floor : with some instructions for drawing ships in perspective Fincham, John, 1840 • RARE-OVER • 2 copies available. 094:629.12(083.96)
The China station : war and diplomacy, 1830-1860 / by Gerald S. Graham. Graham, Gerald S 1978. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1830/1860"(51)
Report of the commissioners for inquiring into naval and military promotion and retirement with appendices Great Britain. Parliament 1840 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:342.537(42)"1840"
The loss of the Tigris : a poem in two cantos, with notes Richardson, Henry 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 623.82Tigris
An authentic narrative of the proceedings of His Majesty's squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson from its sailing from Gibraltar to the conclusion of the glorious battle of the Nile ... / [Berry, Edward, Sir]. 1798. Berry, Edward,-Sir, 1798 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1798"(42:44)