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United States exploring expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, USN : atlas: crustacea Wilkes, Charles 1855 • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available. 595.3

The Australia directory : vol 1: from Cape Leeuwin to Port Stephens, including Bass Strait and Tasmania Great Britain.-Hydrographic Office 1855 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83

Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin : A narrative of the circumstances and causes which led to the failure of the searching expeditions sent by government and others for the rescue of Sir John Franklin /John Ross "Sir John Ross (1777-1856), the distinguished British naval officer and Arctic explorer, undertook three great voyages to the Arctic regions; accounts of his first and his second voyages are also reissued in this series. (During the latter, his ship was stranded in the unexplored area of Prince Regent Inlet, where Ross and his crew survived by living and eating as the local Inuit did.) In this volume, first published in 1855, the explorer describes his experiences during his third (privately funded) Arctic voyage, undertaken in 1850 as part of the effort to locate the missing expedition led by Sir John Franklin, his close friend. Ross also summarises in partisan style the previous efforts by the Royal Navy to find out what happened to the Erebus and Terror, and is scathing in his account of what he regards as the mismanagement and incompetence of the Admiralty."--Provided by the publisher. John Ross • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)

Abstracts of principal lines of spirit levelling in Ireland, carried on during the years 1839 to 1843. . . Colby,-Major General 1855 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 528(4)

Report of an investigation into the circumstances attending the loss of the steam ship Erin's Queen of Belfast, by collision with the steam ship Sabrina of Cork Robertson, Robert 1855 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123Erin's Queen

Copy of the Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other casualties to vessels which occurred in the seas and on the shores of the United Kingdom during the year 1854 Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 1855 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61.085(42)

Machinery of the British and North American Royal Mail steam ship Arabia and of the West India Royal Mail steam ship La Plata : constructed by Robert Napier Esq Napier, Robert & Sons 1855? • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available. 621.18

Karte der Nordlichen Hemisphare : innerhalb des 40. breitengrades = Map of the Northern Hemisphere :within the 40th degreee of latitude Kiepert, Heinrich, 1855 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 912(215-17):094

Bessel's refraction tables, modified and expanded : (Forming the Appendix to the Greenwich observations, 1853). Royal Observatory, Greenwich. 1855. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 52(083.5):094

English paintings of English poetry : a gallery guide "This leaflet provides the poetic sources and a brief commentary for a selection of paintings in the Tate by some of the greatest English artists, Hogarth, Blake, Turner, as well as some more obscure, but fascinating, figures such as John Hamilton Mortimer ca1980 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 7.046

Tall ships and master mariners / R.J. Cunningham, K.R. Mabee. A retelling of the content of the personal logs of Simon Graham, a master mariner based in New Brunswick, from the period 1833-1855. The work also contains much background information based on the authors' research, undertaken to understand Graham's archaic language and historical references. 1985. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22(71)"18"

The story of Commander Allen Gardiner, RN, with sketches of missionary work in South America Marsh, John W 1883 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(828)"18":266

Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. : secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II /the diary deciphered by the Rev. J. Smith, A.M., from the original shorthand ms. in the Pepysian library ; with a life and notes by Richard lord Braybrooke. Pepys, Samuel, 1854. • BOOK • 4 copies available. 92PEPYS(093.32)

Granville Stapylton : Australia Felix 1836 : Second in command to Major Mitchell /Gregory C. Eccleston. "Granville Stapylton Australia Felix 1836 Second-in-command to Major Mitchell is based on the true journals of the pioneer land surveyor Granville Stapylton when he accompanied Major Thomas Mitchell on the famous 'Australia Felix' expedition in 1836, as his second-in-command. This expedition proceeded down the Lachlan, Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers into far western New South Wales, before crossing into what is now Victoria and proceeded south past the Grampians to the coast at Portland, before returning via Mount Macedon to the settled areas near Gundagai. Their continuous survey traverse from Boree (near Molong) to Jugiong (near Gundagai), via south-west Victoria, was found to have a commendably small misclosure of 13/4 miles. Stapylton's journals clarify when and where several natural history discoveries were made, including that of the now extinct Pig-footed Bandicoot, the now extinct White-footed Rabbit-rat, and the first-ever sighting of an australite. Stapylton's journals also describe several first contacts with the indigenous people, the sometimes-fraught relationship between himself and Mitchell, and Stapylton's concern for the welfare of the young girl Ballandella, whom Mitchell took home to raise with his family: one of the first instances of the 'stolen generation'. Being of the aristocracy, Stapylton found it hard to fraternise with the convicts in the team, but by the end of the expedition he had warmed to them sufficiently to praise them for always treating Turandurey (the female in the party) with respect. The book later describes the attack on Stapylton's survey camp in far north-eastern New South Wales, inland from Mount Warning, in 1840, resulting in the murder of Stapylton and one of his men. The farcical criminal trial in Sydney in 1841 is described in detail, with the men adjudged guilty being brought back to the infant Brisbane Town to be publicly hanged from the vanes of the windmill. Also revealed is Mitchell's assuming responsibility for Stapylton's baby son, including his care and schooling until he was old enough to become employed."--Dust Jacket 2018. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92STAPYLTON

Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla Parry, William Edward,-Sir, 1824 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:910.4(987)"1821/1823"

Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into local charges upon shipping in the ports of the United Kingdom, and islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man; together with the appendices and index : Scotland, the Channel Islands, etc Great Britain. Parliament. Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into Local Charges upon Shipping 1855 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61.037

A series of fourteen sketches made during the voyage up Wellington Channel in search of Sir John Franklin, KCH, and the missing crews of HM Discovery-Ships Erebus and Terror : together with a short account of each drawing May, Walter W 1855 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 919.87(084.1)

Catalogue of 53 variable stars : with notes /by Norman Pogson, assistant at the Radcliffe Observatory Pogson, N. R.-(Norman Robert) circa 1855 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 524.3(083.8):094

Die verbreitung der warme in der Nordlichen Hemisphare : innerhalb des 40. breitengrades /von H W Dove Dove, H W 1855 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 912(215-17):094

17th century Dutch and Flemish painters : a collectors' guide /compiled by Alan Jacobs. Jacobs, Alan (comp) 1976. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 75.034(492/493)6

A system of analytic mechanics / by Benjamin Peirce Peirce, Benjamin, 1855. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 531:094

Journals of the first, second and third voyages for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in 1819-20-21-22-23-24-25, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla, Griper and Fury Parry, William Edward,-Sir, 1828 • RARE-BOOK • 5 copies available. 623.82Fury

Mercantile Marine Fund : an account of the Mercantile Marine Fund... / Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. 1852-1880. Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 1852-1880 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 336:656.61

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 / Wilkes, Charles. 1852. Wilkes, Charles 1852 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 528.47(9)

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