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Practical, short, and direct method of calculating the logarithm of any given number, and the number corresponding to any given logarithm / discovered by Oliver Byrne. Byrne, Oliver. 1849. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 519.662:094

Geographical and physical map of the world on Mercator's projection, shewing the British possessions, with the date of their accession, population, etc, all the existing steam navigation, the overland route to India, with the proposed extension to Australia, also the route to Australia via Panama Smith Evans 1849 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:912.43(100)"1849"

Tables for facilitating the determination of the latitude at sea by the simultaneous altitudes of two stars Shadwell, Charles F A 1849 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.093T:094

Reply of the United States' government respecting the proposed relaxation of the British navigation laws Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 1849 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 342.537

The illustrated slave : empathy, graphic narrative, and the visual culture of the transatlantic abolition movement, 1800-1852 /Martha J. Cutter. "The Illustrated Slave analyzes some of the more innovative works in the archive of antislavery illustrated books published from 1800 to 1852 alongside other visual materials that depict enslavement. Martha J. Cutter argues that some illustrated narratives attempt to shift a viewing reader away from pity and spectatorship into a mode of empathy and interrelationship with the enslaved. She also contends that some illustrated books characterize the enslaved as obtaining a degree of control over narrative and lived experiences, even if these figurations entail a sense that the story of slavery is beyond representation itself. Through exploration of famous works such as Uncle Tom's Cabin, as well as unfamiliar ones by Amelia Opie, Henry Bibb, and Henry Box Brown, she delineates a mode of radical empathy that attempts to destroy divisions between the enslaved individual and the free white subject and between the viewer and the viewed."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326(084)

Rudiments of naval architecture : or, an exposition of the elementary principles of the science and its application to naval construction; compiled for the use of beginners /by James Peake Peake, James 1849 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12

The bye-laws and regulations of the Marine Society, instituted in M.DCC.LVI : incorporated in M.DCC.LXXII : Bishopsgate-Street, London ... containing an historical account of this institution Marine Society (London, England) 1849. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.

Arctic expedition : copies or extracts of any proceedings or correspondence of the Admiralty, in reference to the Arctic expeditions Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 1849 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(987)"1847/1859"

Power over peoples : technology, environments, and Western imperialism, 1400 to the present /Daniel R. Headrick. Headrick, Daniel R. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.46:62"14/20"

Six lectures on astronomy delivered at the meetings of the Friends of the Ipswich Museum at the Temerance Hall Ipswich Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1849 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 52(042.3)

The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus : together with the voyages of his companions. Irving, Washington 1849 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:92Columbus

The Jamaican diaries of Robert Hibbert 1772-1780 : detailing a merchant family's involvement in defence and of the colonial slave trade based economy :volume I : "The Jamaican Diaries of Robert Hibbert 1772-1780 is a deeply personal work that has evolved over the last 15 years. It is intended to foster a greater understanding of a very difficult time in history, in which the enslaved and the enslavers inhabit different, disturbing interlocking narratives, now distorted by time and politics. At its core is the dark stain of an empire and many fortunes built upon the enslavement of the unfortunate. It contains much thorough research into people, places, events and sources that developed as the author followed the twists and turns of a family history often frustratingly opaque and sometimes sensationally public. The book is part genealogy and part social history: a previously unpublished diary of a major figure in the West Indian slave trade, with contemporary sources and biographical notes on those that strutted the Atlantic world of the late eighteenth century. It lays down a chronology to allow a picture of the day-to-day happenings in Jamaica to emerge. This work exposes the deep, raw wounds that have resonated through the centuries, creating a need for a deeper study into many facets of British Atlantic history from a different perspective ? one in which the narrative of the enslaved and the enslavers can be read together in both the geopolitical context of the times and the legal, ethical, humanitarian and religious belief systems of those times on both sides of the Atlantic. In order to consider how the slave trade was run, financed, organised and evolved, the author provides a detailed examination of the Jamaican economy of the time, and offers a better and more balanced understanding of the slave trade?s establishment, adoption, adaption, abolition and, lastly, its legacy, in all its hydra-like forms. The second volume of this work will cover the years when the Diaries resume, 1787 to 1802. The Robert Hibbert diaries and the family involvement with Jamaica extend past the abolition (1834) and emancipation (1838) of slaves to the middle of the nineteenth century."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Essai sur l'histoire de la cosmographie et de la cartographie pendant le moyen-age ... Santarem, Le, Viscomte de 1849 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 528.9

Promotion or the bottom of the river : the blue and gray naval careers of Alexander F. Warley, South Carolinian /John M. Stickney. "South Carolinian Alexander F. Warley (1823-1895) was an exceptional naval officer who enjoyed a robust life of far-flung adventures at sea during several dramatic periods in American maritime history. Warley's career began in the 1840s, when he served as a midshipman on Old Ironsides and later took part in the Mexican War. His military exploits reached their zenith when he commanded the CSS Manassas - the first ironclad ship to engage in combat - at New Orleans in October 1861. John M. Stickney's richly detailed biography of Warley as an officer first in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate navy offers a representative example of America's professional military class during the nineteenth century. An ambitious youth of little means, Warley secured an appointment as a midshipman at the age of seventeen through the influence of John C. Calhoun. Over the next two decades of maritime adventures, Warley faced four courts-martial, combat and capture in the Mexican War, and the challenges of rising in the ranks. After South Carolina seceded in December 1860, Warley joined the newly formed Confederate navy and gained recognition for his service at New Orleans, commanding the Manassas until the Confederate defeat there in 1862. Warley's career in the Confederate navy ended with his command of the CSS Albemarle and its destruction at Plymouth, North Carolina. With vivid details and rich narration, Stickney portrays one young man's struggle for glory and success in a divided nation. Using ships logs and naval records, Stickney unravels Warley's naval career and explores the Civil War naval actions that unfolded in New Orleans, Charleston, Galveston, Savannah, and Plymouth during this critical time in American history, revealing the pluck and fortitude of a previously unknown combatant."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92WARLEY

Arctic expeditions : copy of a report from Sir John Richardson, dated Fort Confidence, Great Bear Lake, 16th September 1848, reporting his proceedings in search of Sir John Franklin's expedition Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 1849 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 342.537

Leonhardi Euleri Commentationes arithmeticae collectae : auspiciis Academiae imperialis scientiarum petropolitanae /ediderunt auctoris pronepotes P H Fuss ... et Nicolaus Fuss Euler, Leonhard, 1849. • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 51:094

Professional recollections on points of seamanship, discipline, &c. / by Captain Francis Liardet Liardet, Francis 1849 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:656.61.052

The catalogue of stars of the British Association for the Advancement of Science : containing the mean right ascensions and North polar distances of eight thousand three hundred and seventy-seven fixed stars, reduced to January 1, 1850 ; together with their annual precessions, secular variations and proper motions, as well as the logarithmic constants for computing precession, aberration and nutation /[British Association for the Advancement of Science] ; with a preface by Francis Baily. British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1849. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

From Eden to Windsor Castle : the amazing life of Sir Oswald Brierly /Bob Lawrence. Lawrence, Bob-(Robert L.), 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BRIERLY

A naval biographical dictionary : comprising the life and services of every living officer in Her Majesty's Navy, from the rank of Admiral of the Fleet to that of Lieutenant inclusive / O'Byrne, William. 1990 O'Byrne, William R 1990 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.33(42):92

Crescent shipping / K.S. Garrett. Chronicles the story of Crescent Shipping, which began as a coastal transport company in 1849. By 1900 a large number of sailing barges were operated by the company. In the years leading to the Second World War many sailing craft were fitted with motors and some seagoing cargo ships were added to the fleet. Post-1945, larger seagoing ships were acquired and the company engaged in cable-laying, bulk powders and the dumping of nuclear waste. The book charts the evolution of the company up until 2008, by which time Crescent had been subsumed into a large international group. Contains numerous photographs, and fleet lists for motor ships, motor barges, tugs, Bowker and King, Offshore Marine, Crescent Ship Management and others. 2010. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 347.792CRESCENT

The ship, its origin and progress : being a general history from its first invention to the latest improvements, forming a complete account of the naval events of the ancients, the middle ages, and the modern epochs, to the close of 1848 /by Francis Steinitz. Steinitz, Francis 1849. • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:629.123

Des droits et des devoirs des nations neutres en temps de guerre maritime Hautefeuille, L-B 1848/1849 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:347.79(44)

Peregrine Scramble : or, Thirty years' adventures of a blue jacket /by Sir H.V. Huntley. Huntley, H. V.-(Henry Vere),-Sir, 1849. • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. txt

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