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The Crimean War journals (1854-1855) of Henry Woodfall Crowe : on board HMS Duke of Wellington /reasearched and transcribed by Bernard Robert Crowe.
Crowe, Bernard Robert
2012. • BOOK • 2 copies available.
92CROWE
A voyage of discovery towards the North Pole performed in His Majesty's ships Dorothea and Trent, under the command of Captain David Buchan, 1818
Beechey, Frederick William,
1843 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:910.4(98)"1818"
A naval history of the American revolution
Allen, Gardner Weld,
1913 • BOOK • 2 copies available.
355.49"1775/1783"(73)
Early Dutch and English voyages to Spitsbergen in the seventeenth century : including Hessel Gerritsz Histoire du pays nomme Spitsberghe, 1613 ... and Jacob Segersz van der Brugge Journael of dagh register, Amsterdam, 1634
Gerritsz, Hessel
1904 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(984)"1612/1613"
The use of the lead : or how to correct the soundings; with an explanation of the general set of the tides in the Irish Sea, the English Channel, and the North Sea, with directions for making an allowance for them
Beechey, Frederick William,
ca1856 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
551.465(261.2)
Incidental remarks on some properties of light; being part V. of an essay on vision
Hardy, R W H :-Lieut
1856 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
535
Total eclipses of the sun / by Mabel Loomis Todd.
Todd, Mabel Loomis,
1894. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
521.81
Le corsaire Pellot qui courut pour le roi, pour la râepublique et pour l'empereur, et qui âetait Basque,par Thierry Sandre.
Sandre, Thierry,
[c1932] • BOOK • 1 copy available.
341.362.1(44)
On the figure, dimensions, and mean specific gravity of the Earth, as derived from the ordnance trigonometrical survey of Great Britain and Ireland / communicated by Lieut.-Colonel James
Royal Society
1856 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
531:094
The American merchant marine : its history and romance from 1620 to 1902
Marvin, Winthrop L
1902 • BOOK • 2 copies available.
656.61(73)
On the deflection of the plumb-line at Arthur's Seat, and the mean specific gravity of the earth / communicated by Lieutenant-Colonel James
Royal Society
1856 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
531:094
Tables for the use of nautical men, astronomers and others; intended particularly as supplementary to the National almanac, and White's coelestial atlas.By Olinthus Gregory, Esq., LL.D., F.R.A.S., &c. ; W.S.B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S. ; and James Hann, Esq., of King's College
Gregory, Olinthus
1846. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
527(083.5):094
Bestimmung der polhèohe und der intensitèat der schwerkraft auf zwei und zwanzig stationen / von der Ostee bei Kolberg bis zur Schneekoppe.
Prussia.-Geodèatisches Institut.
1896. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
528:094
A voyage of discovery made under the orders of the Admiralty in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay and enquiring into the probability of a north-west passage : volume II
Ross, John,-Sir,
1819 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:910.4(987)"1818"
A treatise on navigation by steam : comprising a history of the steam engine, and an essay towards a system of the naval tactics peculiar to steam navigation, as applicable both to commerce and maritime warfare ...
Ross, John,-Sir,
1828 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
094:621.12
Sir John Ross's last expedition, in search of Sir John Franklin
Wilson, Malcolm M
1973 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
The Drawings and watercolours by Rear-Admiral Frederick William Beechey ... in the collection of the Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary
Bershad, Sonia S
1980 • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available.
7.035(42)"18"
Narrative of a second voyage in search of a North-West Passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 : including the reports of Commander now Captain James Clark Ross ... and the discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole
Ross, John,-Sir,
1835 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
629.123Victory
Lloyd's list weekly summary.
• JOURNAL • 1 copy available.
A preliminary description of a Polar Eskimo sledge collected by Sir John Ross / J.C.H. King.
King, J C H
1983. • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available.
629.111.7(987)"18":92Ross
Tracts - general physics.
• RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
5
Fisica de' corpi ponderabili ossia Trattato della costituzione general de' corpi / del Cavaliere Amedeo Avogadro.
Avogadro, Amedeo,
1837-1841. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
53:094
A treatise on navigation by steam : comprising a history of the steam engine, and an essay towards a system of the naval tactics peculiar to steam navigation ... / Ross, John. 1828.
Ross, John,-Sir,
1828 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available.
355.462.3
Explanation and answer to Mr John Braithwaite's Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's narrative of a second voyage in the Victory, in search of a North-West Passage
Ross, John,-Sir,
1835. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available.
629.123Victory
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