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Extrait du rapport presente a la 35me seance anniversaire de la Societe Royale Astronomique de Londres : par le conseil de cette societe, le 9 Fevrier 1855 Royal Astronomical Society 1855 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094

Address of the president of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Rev. Main, M.A., on the presentation of the gold medal to Professor Hansen, for his lunar tables : on February 10, 1860 Main, Robert, 1860 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094

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

A reply to Mr Babbage's letter to "The Times," "on the planet Neptune and the Royal Astronomical Society's medal." / by the Rev R. Sheepshanks. Sheepshanks, R 1847. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Sur les travaux de l'Ancienne Academie de Bruxelles : discours prononce en la seance publique de l'Academie Royale de Belique, le 16 Decembre 1858 /par M. AD. Quetelet Quetelet, M. AD. 1858 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094

John Rae, Arctic explorer : the unfinished autobiography /edited and with an introduction by William Barr. "John Rae is best known today as the first European to reveal the fate of the Franklin Expedition, yet the range of Rae's accomplishments is much greater. Over five expeditions, Rae mapped some 1,550 miles (1,850 kilometres) of Arctic coastline; he is undoubtedly one of the Arctic's greatest explorers, yet today his significance is all but lost. John Rae, Arctic Explorer is an annotated version of Rae's unfinished autobiography. William Barr has extended Rae's previously unpublished manuscript and completed his story based on Rae's reports and correspondence--including reaction to his revelations about the Franklin Expedition. Barr's meticulously researched, long overdue presentation of Rae's life and legacy is an immensely valuable addition to the literature of Arctic exploration."-- [2018] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 917.1904/1092

Johann Keppler und die Harmonie der Sphèaren : Vortrag gehalten im Wissenschaftlichen Verein zu Berlin am 8. Februar 1862 /von W. Fèorster. Fèorster, Wilhelm Julius, 1862. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094

Slaves waiting for sale : abolitionist art and the American slave trade /Maurie D. McInnis. McInnis, Maurie Dee 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(74)"18":7CROWE

Lost story of the William and Mary : The cowardice of Captain Stinson /Gill Hoffs "The loss of the emigrant ship William & Mary made news around the world not once but twice in 1853. First when her American captain reported the vessel lost before his eyes in the shark-infested waters of the Bahamas and the death of over 200 left on board, then again when the truth emerged - a tale of abandonment, desperation, and the incredible heroism of a wrecker and his crew. Discover the people involved in this mysterious shipwreck, including: Captain Timothy Stinson, the callous young mariner who attempted mass murder Susannah Dimond, the English 19-year-old hoping for a new life in St. Louis with her family, husband and unborn child Izaak Roorda, one of a group of 87 Dutch emigrants seeking to settle in Wisconsin, who found the lifeboat more perilous than the sinking ship Over 160 years later, Gill Hoffs reveals the terrifying true events that drove one man to murder passengers with a hatchet and others to abandon their family and friends - and a wrecker to risk his life for total strangers."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3WILLIAM & MARY

Captain James Fairweather : his life and career /by his granddaughter Nancy Rycroft in association with Keith Mackay. Written by his granddaughter, this is a family history recounting the life of Captain James Fairweather (1853-1933). After working briefly in a Dundee factory, Fairweather went to sea in 1867 joining whaling and sealing ships such as the Victor and rising through the ranks to become Master in 1877 at the age of 24. The following year Fairweather took command of his first ship, the SS Active, a Dundee whaler working the Arctic oceans. Commanding the Aurora for six years, Fairweather continued in the sealing and whaling industry until 1888 when with the decline of the whaling industry, he sought employment in the general trade. He spent three years in command of the Vortigern taking coal from Calcutta to various Indian ports and founded Fairweather House in Calcutta as a social club for marine officers and engineers. At the outbreak of the First World War, Fairweather joined the Royal Navy Reserve, becoming Examination Officer on the Tay. In 1916 Fairweather was given a temporary commission as Lieutenant Commander R.N.R. and the command of the SS Discovery for the Shackleton Relief Expedition, although by the time he reached Montivideo Shackleton's men had already been rescued from Elephant Island. Includes excerpts from the family trees of the Fleeming, Duncan and Fairweather families, family photographs and illustrations of vessels commanded by Fairweather. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FAIRWEATHER

The art of a nation : three centuries of Irish painting /Jonathan Benington [and others] ; edited by William Laffan. An illustrated catalogue for an exhibition of Irish paintings from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries held at Pyms Gallery in London. The catalogue comprises 30 artists: Charles Collins (c. 1700-1744); Judith Lewis (1711-1781); Nathaniel Hone the Elder (1718-1784); Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1739-1806); George Mullins (active 1756-1775/6); Matthew William Peters (1741-1814); Joseph Wilson (active 1756-d. 1793); John Boyne (c. 1750-1810); George Chinnery (1774-1852); James Arthur O'Connor (1792-1841); William Henry Maguire (1806-1853), Irish School (1837); Nathaniel Hone (1831-1917); John Butler Yeats (1839-1922); Howard Helmick (1845-1907); Sarah Purser (1848-1943); Sir John Lavery (1856-1941); Mildred Anne Butler (1858-1914); William Henry Bartlett (1858-1914); Walter Frederick Osborne (1859-1903); Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940); Grace Henry (1868-1953); Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957); Paul Henry (1876-1958); Sir William Orpen (1878-1931); William John Leech (1881-1968); Mary Swanzy (1882-1978); Frederick Edward McWilliam (1909-1992); Colin Middleton (1910-1983); and William Scott (1913-1989). 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 75(415)

Australasian Sketcher with pen and pencil : index to illustrations of ships, ports and places, and other items of general maritime interest 1873 to 1889 inclusive /compiled by Vaugan Evans. Evans, Vaughan 1990. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 014.3:05AS:7.047(26)

Union-Castle Line : sailing like clockwork /Mike Roussel and Sam Warwick. A history of the Union-Castle line from its origins as the Union Steam Collier Company formed in 1853 by Arthur Anderson until the company's termination in 1977. The company changed its name to the Union Steam Ship Company Limited in 1856, and to the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Limited following its merger with rival Donald Currie's Castle Line in 1900. The company went on to acquire the King Line in 1949 and merged with the Clan Line in 1956 to come under the control of the Cayzer family's British & Commonwealth Shipping Company. Primarily providing mail services between Britain and South Africa, the line carried passengers including prospectors to the South African goldfields and troops to the Boer War and First and Second World Wars. Several vessels operated as hospital ships and supply vessels. Covering the development of the line's business operations, the narrative includes details of wrecks and losses, life on board based on travellers' diaries and the personal recollections of serving crew and passengers. Illustrated throughout with photographs of ships, their interiors, crew members and advertising material. Fleet lists of the Union, Castle and Union-Castle Lines are provided. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.792UNION CASTLE

Narrative of the voyage of HMS Herald during the years 1845-51, under the command of Henry Kellett, RN, CB : being a circumnavigation of the globe, and three cruizes to the Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin Seemann, Berthold 1853 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 623.82Herald

From Antarctica to the gold rushes : in the wake of the Erebus : Alexander Smith, polar voyager, astronomer & goldfields commissioner 1812-1872 /John Ramsland. "Commander Alexander Smith served the Royal Navy with fearless resolution for seventeen years on the quarterdeck, encountering many adventures on the high seas - an intrepid voyager in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Under the command of Captain James Clark Ross, he became a heroic polar explorer in the north Atlantic and was chosen as First Mate for the epic 1839-1843 British Antarctic Expedition aboard HMS Erebus. The Ross expedition was the first to go where no human being had gone before despite competition from Charles Wilkes' American and Dumont d'Urville's French expeditions. Retiring from the Royal Navy, he was appointed Goldfields Commissioner in Castlemaine during the Australian gold rushes in 1853 and developed a fine reputation as a botanist and naturalist...an extraordinary but forgotten life."--Back cover. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(99)"1839/1843":92SMITH, ALEXANDER

Recueil de mâemoires prâesentâes áa l'Acadâemie des sciences par les astronomes de Poulkova, ou offerts áa l'Observatoire central par d'autres astronomes du pays;publiâe avec l'autorisation de l'acadâemie par W. Struve. Struve, F. G. W.-(Friedrich Georg Wilhelm), 1853-59. • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 52:094

Illustrated London News : index to illustrations of ships, ports and places, and other items of general interest to Australia and New Zealand 1842 to 1891 inclusive /compiled by Vaughan Evans. Evans, Vaughan 1990. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 014.3:05ILN:7.047(26)

An address delivered to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on the 1st December 1862 : containing remarks on the rise and progress of learned societies and on the means of maintaining their usefulness: to which is added a memoir of Louis Albert Necker, late professor of mineralogy in the Academy of Geneva, and honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh /by James David Forbes, LL.D., F.R.S., one of the vice-presidents of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Forbes, James David, 1863 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094

Tables of the prime numbers, and prime factors of the composite numbers, from 1 to 100,000 : with the methods of their construction, and examples of their use /by Edward Hinkley, A. M. Hinkley, Edward, 1853. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51(083.5):094

The new week's preparation for a worthy receiving of the Lord's supper as recommended and appointed by the Church of England, consisting of, meditations and prayers for the morning and evening of every day of the week ... • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:264-13

Ten months among the tents of the Tuski : with incidents of an Arctic boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, as far as the Mackenzie River, and Cape Bathurst Hooper, W H 1853 • BOOK • 4 copies available. 623.82Herald

East sails West : the voyage of the Keying, 1846-1855 /Stephen Davies. In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner who had signed away Hong Kong to the British, manned by a Chinese and European crew, and carrying a traveling exhibition of Chinese items, the Keying had a troubled voyage. After quarrels on the way and a diversion to New York, culminating in a legal dispute over arrears of wages for Chinese members of the crew, it finally reached London in 1848, where it went on exhibition on the River Thames until 1853. It was then auctioned off, towed to Liverpool, and finally broken up. In this account of the ship, the crew and the voyage, Stephen Davies tells a story of missed opportunities, with an erratic course, overambitious aims, and achievements born of lucky breaks -- a microcosm, in fact, of early Hong Kong and of the relations between China and the West. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.45

Wild east : the British in Japan 1854-1868 /Joshua Provan. "For over two centuries, Japan had been hidden behind a veil of seclusion. This changed when Commodore Perry arrived in 1853. Britain was fast to get in on the action; however, their sudden appearance had accelerated the pace of political change in Japan. The newcomers found themselves increasingly out of their depth in a power struggle that they did not understand. The shogun and emperor were at each other's throats and factions were jockeying for position. Britain's first diplomats found themselves the targets of assassins and to their confusion discovered that the emperor had no legislative power and the shogun's word was no longer law. Yet with the lessons of the opium wars still in recent memory, a slew of British soldiers, ambassadors, interpreters and adventurers attempted to protect imperial interests in Japan without causing outright war. This is the story of the rocky beginning of Anglo-Japanese relations, a story of the 'Wild East', full of political schemes, gunboat diplomacy, assassins and samurai, set in the dying days of the Edo period and the twilight of the last shogun."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 327.5204109/034

On the edge : mapping North America's coasts /Roger M. McCoy. McCoy, Roger M. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.9(7)

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