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L'astronomie pratique et les observatoires en Europe et en Amâerique, depuis le milieu du XVIIe siáecle jusq'áa nos jours; par C. Andrâe, G. Rayet et A. Angot Andrâe, Charles Louis Franðcois, 1874-78 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 520.1(4+7):094

Whaling harpoons, harpoon guns and related weapons and tools / Arthur G. Credland. Credland, Arthur G. 2018. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 639.245.1

Report from the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the state of the British possessions on the west coast of Africa, more especially with reference to their present relations with the neighbouring native tribes Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the West Coast of Africa 1842 • MICROFILM • 2 copies available. 325.5(66)

The Oriental-Hydrographe and Photography : the first expedition around the world with an 'Art Available to All' (1839-1840) /Maria Inez Turazzi. Turazzi, Maria Inez. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Report of Mr Kennedy of Maryland from the committee on commerce of the house of representatives of the United States on the African slave trade : United States 27th congress, 3rd session Kennedy, J P 1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326:325.3(73:666.2)

Experimental researches on the strength and other properties of cast iron : with the development of new principles; calculations deduced from them; and inquiries applicable to rigid and tenacious bodies generally /by Eaton Hodgkinson, F.R.S. Hodgkinson, Eaton, 1846. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 669.1:094

The port of Southampton / Ian Collard. ''An Act of Parliament passed in 1836 authorised the Southampton Dock Company to build a dock at Southampton. The foundation stone for the new docks was laid on 12 October 1838. The Eastern Docks were developed in the 1830s and the Inner and Outer Docks were then constructed. The Outer Dock was opened in 1842 and the Inner Dock in 1851, being completed eight years later. As trade and business increased the old facilities proved inadequate and a new dock named Empress Dock was opened by Queen Victoria in 1890. In 1892 the facilities were taken over by the London & South Western Railway Company and in 1923 the Southern Railway took over the management of the docks until nationalization in 1947. The British Transport Board assumed responsibility for Southampton docks in 1963 and in the 1980s they were privatized, becoming Associated British Ports (ABP), Southampton. The Port of Southampton is now the United Kingdom s premier passenger port and is the second largest container facility, handling more than 1.5 million containers each year.''-Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 387.10942276

Punch. • JOURNAL • 1 copy available. 827/.008

William Fairbairn: the experimental engineer : A study in mid 19th-century engineering /Richard Byrom "William Fairbairn (1789-1874) was one of the greatest of 19th-century engineers yet he is strangely overlooked. This is the first definitive biography for 140 years. It chronicles Fairbairn's role in the development, in the UK and abroad, of mills, waterwheels, steam engines, boilers, iron steamships, locomotives, iron bridges, cranes and elevators. It provides illustrations for many of today's current areas of debate, as it discusses the sources of Fairbairn's success, the extent of his influence and the reasons for the firm he founded failing within a year of his death. Fairbairn was the leading experimental research engineer of his time; and his Manchester works were an outstanding success, with his trainees producing five professors of engineering and two engineers knighted for their work. Fully researched and profusely illustrated, the book will appeal to all with an interest in engineering history: academics and non-academics alike. The author was introduced to William Fairbairn as an undergraduate in Manchester and went on to gain an MPhil and PhD in Fairbairn studies. He remains fascinated by this remarkable engineer."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FAIRBAIRN

Watson's code of signals for the use of vessels at sea; and adapted for the semaphoric telegraphs as established from the Downs to London; Holyhead to Liverpool; St Catherine's, Isle of Wight, to Southampton; Spurn to Hull; Start to Dartmouth; and the several reporting stations upon prominent headlands round the coast Watson, Barnard L 1842 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:627.725.2(42)"1842"

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

A narrative of the loss of the Royal George, at Spithead, August, 1782 : including Tracey's attempt to raise her in 1783, also, Colonel Pasley's operations in removing the ship ... 1839-1840 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:656.61.085.3Royal George

Mistress of Science The Story of the Remarkable Janet Taylor, Pioneer of Sea Navigation. /John S. Croucher A biography of Janet Taylor (1804-1870), born Jane Ann Ionn, a gifted mathematician, astronomer, instrument maker, author and teacher of navigation. Her father, a clergyman and teacher, maintained a large library and her intelligence and mathematical skills were quickly recognised resulting in a scholarship to attend the Royal School of Embroidering Females so that she could continue her study of mathematics, astronomy and navigation. She went on to establish that the earth is spheroidal rather than spherical meaning that longitude could be established with a greater degree of accuracy and navigational instruments could be calibrated accordingly. She published a number of works on astronomy and navigation, including Luni-Solar and Horary Tables in 1833 and An Epitome of Navigation, and Nautical Astronomy with Improved Lunar Tables in 1842. Both were well received and ran to several editions. Her two nautical academies were endorsed by the Admiralty, Trinity House and the East India Company. Janet Taylor was also a recognised instrument maker, creating and calibrating chronometers, compasses, sextants and binnacles and invented and patented a mariner's calculator in 1834. She died in poverty, largely estranged from her six surviving children, with no official recognition of her achievements. The author, John Croucher, is descended from her eldest brother. 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92TAYLOR, JANET

Nelson's surgeon : William Beatty, naval medicine, and the battle of Trafalgar /Laurence Brocklis, John Cardwell and Michael Moss. A biography of William Beatty (1773-1842), chief surgeon on Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship the Victory at the time of Nelson's death. During the course of one afternoon during the Battle of Trafalgar, Beatty had treated 100 of the 820 crew, witnessed the death of his closest friend (Lieutenant William Andrew Ram) and nursed the dying Nelson. Aged 32, this was the first major action in which he had served and in 1807 he published his Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson. After Trafalgar, Beatty continued to have a distinguished career in the naval medical service, eventually becoming physician to the Greenwich Hospital, an FRS, a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, and was knighted in 1831. As well as the biographical content, the authors describe the context and role of naval surgeons in the nineteenth century, their education, training and work, and also details of the conditions on board. A partial family tree of the Beatty family is included with the illustrations and diagrams, and there is a detailed bibliography. 2005. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92BEATTY

China station : the British military in the Middle Kingdom 1839-1997 /Mark Felton. "The Author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that have swept China over the last two centuries. He devotes chapters to the various wars, military adventures and rebellions that regularly punctuated Sino#British relationships since the 1st Opium War 1839-1842. This classic example of Imperial intervention saw the establishment of Hong Kong and Shanghai as key trading centres. The Second Opium War and the Taiping and Boxer Rebellions saw the advancement of British influence despite determined but unsuccessful efforts by the Chinese to loosen the grip of Western domination. The Royal Navys might ensured that, by gunboat diplomacy, trading rights and new posts were established and great fortunes made. But in the 1940s the British grossly underestimated Japanese military might and intentions with disastrous results. After the Second World War the British returned to find that the Americans had supplanted them. The Communists victory in the Civil War sealed British and Western fates and, while Hong Kong remained under British control until 1997, the end of British rule was almost inevitable. But the handover was a masterly piece of pragmatic capitalism and the former Colony remains an economic powerhouse with strong British influence."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 951.033

British ships in China seas : 1700 to the present day /edited by Richard Harding, Adrian Jarvis and Alston Kennerley. "Papers presented at a conference held at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in September 2002, organised jointly by the Society for Nautical Research and National Museums on Merseyside"--T.p. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(42:51)

Finden's views of the ports, harbours, coast scenery and watering places of Great Britain Finden, William (ill) 1842 • RARE-BOOK • 6 copies available. 913(210.5:42)

Shanghai : China's gateway to modernity /Marie-Claire Bergere ; translated by Janet Lloyd. "Shanghai today is a thriving, bustling metropolis. But does its avid pursuit of the modern trappings of success truly indicate that it will once again become the shining example of China's commercial and cosmopolitan culture? While history continues to unfold, the author, an eminent scholar on China takes readers back to when Shanghai first opened to the world in 1842 to narrate the city's tumultuous and unique course to the present. This work is the first comprehensive history of Shanghai in any Western language. Divided into four parts, it details Shanghai's beginnings as a treaty port in the mid-nineteenth century; its capitalist boom following the 1911 Revolution; the fifteen years of economic and social decline initiated by the Japanese invasion in 1937, and attempts at resistance; and the city's disgraced years under Communism. Weaving together a range of archival documents and existing histories to create a global picture of Shanghai's past and present, the author shows that Shanghai's success was not fated, as some contend, by an evolutionary pattern set into motion long before the arrival of westerners. Rather, her account identifies the relationship between the Chinese and foreigners in Shanghai, their interaction, cooperation, and rivalry, as the driving force behind the creation of an original culture, a specific modernity, founded upon western contributions but adapted to the national Chinese culture. Eclipsed for three decades by socialism, the wheels of the Shanghai spirit began to turn in the 1990s, when the reform movement took off anew. The city is again being referred to as a model for China's current modernization drive. Although it makes no claims to what will happen next, this work stands as a compelling and definitive profile of a city whose urban history continues to be redefined, retold, and resold."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 951/.132

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

Sexual and gender difference in the British Navy, 1690-1900 / edited by Seth Stein LeJacq. "This volume is a collection of a variety of important records that will give readers insight into key themes into the history of what its criminal code called "the unnatural and detestable sin of buggery"- sex between males - in the Royal Navy."--Provided by publisher. 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.1094209033

Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African / edited by Vincent Carretta. Sancho, Ignatius, 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.1/3200496

Astronomical observations made at the Observatory of Cambridge Challis, James 1834-1890 • RARE-FOLIO • 17 copies available. 520.1

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