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American naval biography : comprising the lives of the commodores, and other commanders distinguished in the history of the American Navy ... Frost, John (comp) 1844 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92:355.33(73)
Report from the select Committee on Merchant Seamen's Fund, together with the minutes of evidence Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 1844 • • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22:361.7
"The voyage of the F.H. Moore" and other 19th century whaling accounts / Samuel Grant Williams, J. Ross Browne, Capt. Charles H. Robbins, and Francis Allyn Olmsted ; edited by Greg Bailey. "In 1873, 21-year-old Sam Williams embarked on a whaling journey on the two-masted F.H. Moore--he steered one of the smaller boats and when in range threw the harpoon. During the 16-month voyage, he kept a personal log and later reworked it into this never-before-published manuscript, now supplemented by additional research and relevant excerpts of the official logbook of the ship. Complementing this are excerpts from three other accounts of whaling voyages: 'Incidents of a Whaling Voyage' by Francis Allyn Olmstead (1841), the oldest in this collection; 'Etchings of a Whaling Cruise' by J. Ross Browne (1846), an expose of the whaling industry; and 'The Gam: Being a Group of Whaling Stories' by Capt. Charles Henry Robbins (1899), a personal story of nearly an entire life at sea. The four accounts open the 19th century world of whaling to modern readers in a realistic and unromantic way and illuminate the current worldwide debate on whaling."-- 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.245.1(73)"18"
New tables for facilitating the computation of precession, aberration and nutation of two thousand eight hundred and eighty-one principal fixed stars : together with a catalogue of the same reduced to January 1, 1830: computed at the expense and under the direction of the Astronomical Society of London ; to which is prefixed an introduction explanatory of their construction and application /by Francis Baily. Baily, Francis, 1827. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 523.4(083.8)
Memoirs of the Admiral the Right Hon the Earl of St Vincent, GCB etc Tucker, Jedediah Stephens 1844 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"17"(42)
Expose des operations geodesiques relatives aux travaux hydrographiques executes sur les cotes meridionales de France sous la direction de feu M Monnier ... Begat, P 1844 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:528.47(44)
Expedition chronometrique executee par ordre de sa majeste l'empereur Nicolas 1er entre Poulkova et Altona pour la determination de la longitude geographique relative de l'observatoire central de Russie Struve, F.G.W. 1844 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.09:094
Nouvel atlas physique politique et historique de l'Empire Ottoman et des etats limitrophes en Europe, en Asie et en Afrique ... avec un beau plan ... de Constantinople ... et ceux de sieges et battailles memorables ... Hellert, J J 1844 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(496.02)"18"
La Marine : arsenaux, navires, equipages, navigation, atterrages, combat Pacini, M Eugene 1844 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:355.353(44)
Fragments of voyages and travels : 2nd series Hall, Basil, 1832 • RARE-BOOK • 6 copies available. 094:910.4"18"
An investigation of the prinicples of the rules for determining the measures of the areas and circumferences of circular plane surfaces, and the capacities and bulks of certain spherical and cylindrical vessels and solids 1844 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 51:094
The Hurricane : a poem, descriptive of the ... seamen on board HM ship Theseus ... during three days' and nights' hurricane, which, in company with the Hercule, she encountered north-east of Monte Christi, in the Island of St Domingo Eye-Witness 1844 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Hercule
An account of the Revd John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer-Royal, compiled from his own manuscripts, and other authentic documents, never before published. To which is added, his British catalogue of stars, corrected and enlarged / Francis Baily. Baily, Francis, 1835. • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 52.93:094
Labyrinth of ice : the triumphant and tragic Greely polar expedition /Buddy Levy. "Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration. In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge-vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness-as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship scheduled to return at the end of the year. Only nothing came. 250 miles south, a wall of ice prevented any rescue from reaching them. Provisions thinned and a second winter descended. Back home, Greely's wife worked tirelessly against government resistance to rally a rescue mission. Months passed, and Greely made a drastic choice: he and his men loaded the remaining provisions and tools onto their five small boats, and pushed off into the treacherous waters. After just two weeks, dangerous floes surrounded them. Now new dangers awaited: insanity, threats of mutiny, and cannibalism. As food dwindled and the men weakened, Greely's expedition clung desperately to life. Labyrinth of Ice tells the true story of the heroic lives and deaths of these voyagers hell-bent on fame and fortune-at any cost-and how their journey changed the world"-- 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)"1881/1884"
Description abrâegâee de l'horloge astronomique de la cathâedrale de Strasbourg / par Ch. Schwilgue Schwilgue, Charles. 1844. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.113.91(443.8):094
Vierstellige logarithmen der naturlichen zahlen und winkelfunctionem nebst den gaussischen und andern hulfstafeln zur auflosung der hohern numerischen gleichungen und zur anwendung der methode der kleinsten quadrate Muller, Johann Heinrich Traugott 1844 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 51:094
The dispatches and letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson Nelson, Horatio Nelson,-Viscount, 1844 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:92Nelson(093.2)
Grand panorama of London : from the Thames extending from the new Houses of Parliament to Greenwich Hospital. [20--?] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 7.047(21:421)
East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India
Astronomical tables and formulae : together with a variety of problems explanatory of their use and application. To which are prefixed the elements of the solar system /Francis Baily, Esq. F.R.S. L.S. and G.S. M.R.I.A. and President of the Astronomical Society of London Baily, Francis, 1827 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:52-13(083.5)
The new British Channel pilot : containing sailing directions from London to Liverpool, including the Bristol Channel and the coasts of Ireland ... also the coasts and harbours of France from Calais to Brest Norie, J W (comp) 1844 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83(261.2)
Magnetical investigations / by the Rev. William Scoresby, D.D. Scoresby, William, 1844-1852. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 537.6:094
Logarithmic tables, to seven places of decimals, containing logarithms to numbers from 1 to 120,000, numbers to logarithms from .0 to 1.00000, logarithmic sines and tangents to every second of the circle, with arguments in space and time, and new astronomical and geodesical tables Shortrede, Robert 1844 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52-17:094
Testimonial presented to Captain H W Gibbs of the General Steam Navigation Company's mail packet Neptune. A printed sheet bearing the names of 29 passengers. The type is gilded on a blue background. 1844. • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 656.86:629.123.3(079.2)