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Pitcairn : the island, the people, and the pastor; with a short account of the Mutiny of the Bounty /Thomas Boyles Murray. Murray, Thomas Boyles 1856. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 996.2"1790/1856"

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 Capt J C Ross ... and the discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole Ross, John,-Sir, 1835 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:910.4(987)"1829/1833"

The novice's catechism : containing questions in the rudiments of seamanship and gunnery for the use of young seamen, as taught in Her Majesty's ship Illustrious 1856 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.55

Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday the 1st of August 4 Aug 1856 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92Willis, Charles

Rudimentary treatise on galvanism and the general principles of animal and valtaic electricity with brief notices of the purposes to which it has been added Harris, William Snow 1856 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 537

The British Navy in the Mediterranean / John D. Grainger "This book presents a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Mediterranean Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth century. It traces developments from Anglo-Saxon times, through the Crusades, and to the seventeenth century, when the Barbary corsairs became a major problem. It outlines Britain's involvement in the wars of the long eighteenth century, when Britain obtained bases at Gibraltar, Minorca and Malta and repeatedly defeated the French and Spanish navies. It examines the navy's activities during the First and Second World Wars, when the Mediterranean was again of crucial strategic significance and a major theatre of war, and goes on to consider Britain's withdrawal from the Mediterranean in the later twentieth century. Throughout, the book relates naval activity to patterns of trade, including the rise and decline of the Levant Company, and to wider international politics."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42:262)

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 Ross, John,-Sir, 1819 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:910.4(987)"1818"

The first panoramas : visions of British imperialism /Denise Blake Oleksijczuk. "The First Panoramas is a cultural history of the first three decades of the panorama, a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual medium patented by the artist Robert Barker in Britain in 1787. A towering two-story architectural construction inside which spectators gazed on a 10,000-square-foot painting, Barker's new technology was designed to create an impression of total verisimilitude for the observer. In the beautifully illustrated The First Panoramas, Denise Blake Oleksijczuk demonstrates the complexity of the panoramas' history and cultural impact, exploring specific exhibits: View of Edinburgh and the Adjacent Country from the Calton Hill (1788), View of London from the Roof of the Albion Mill (1791), View of the Grand Fleet Moored at Spithead (1793), and the two different versions of View of Constantinople (1801). In addition to the art itself, she examines the panoramas' intriguing descriptive keys--single-sheet diagrams that directed spectators to important sites in the representation, which evolved over time to give the observer greater perceptual control over the view. Using the surviving evidence, much of it never published before, on the early exhibitions of these massive installations, Oleksijczuk reconstructs the relationships between specific paintings, their accompanying printed guides, and the collective experiences of different audiences. She argues that by transporting its spectators to increasingly distant locations, first in the city and country and then in the world beyond Britain's borders, the panorama created a spatial and temporal disjunction between "here" and "there" that helped to forge new national and social identities"--Provided by publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.047(42)"17"

Russia at the close of the 16th century : comprising the treatise "of the Russe Commonwealth" by Dr Giles Fletcher and the travels of Sir Jerome Horsey, Knt Fletcher, Giles, Dr 1856 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.7"15"

The Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 and 1855, with a readable abridgment of the former Act, and an explanation of the law relating to it ... Dowdeswell, George Morley 1856 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 342.537

The chronometer's companion : or a compendium of nautical astronomy comprising methods for finding the latitude by meridian altitudes, the time by the sun and the stars and longitude by chronometer Turnbull, William 1856 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.28(26)

Military topographical map of the Krima [Crimea] peninsula ... engraved and printed at the Military Map Depot attached to the etat-major or staff of His Imperial Majesty Jervis, Thomas Best 1856 from 1816 survey • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1854/1856"(477.75)

The discovery of the North-West Passage by HMS Investigator, Capt R M'Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854 / edited by Sherard Osborn ; from the logs and journals of Robert Le M. M'Clure ; illustrated by S. Gurney Cresswell. 1856 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Investigator

Mitchell's maritime register : a weekly journal of shipping and commerce 1856-1884. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available.

Rosa ursina sive sol ex admirando facularum & macularum suarum phoenomeno Scheiner, Christopher 1626-1630 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 52.092.9:094

Rules to be observed by the officers and members of a society called the Benevolent United Burial Society Benevolent United Burial Society 1856 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.236.2Benevolent United

The mate and his duties : containing remarks of discipline, his duties towards the master, duties of the watch... words of command and sea terms in Italian, Spanish, French and Bengalee... to which is added answers to the questions in the steam navigation 1856 • • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22

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

Rules and regulations of the Gift and Burial Fund of the Mariners' Lodge, no 15... Improved Order of Old Friends. Mariners' Lodge no 15 1856 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.236.2Improved Order

A nautical essay on sailors' homes and the crimpage system, with hints to sailors when to look-out-a-head in 'smooth water'; how to avoid 'sunken rocks'; and how to steer when on shore, without a mariner's compass Stuart, Thomas 1856 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61:331.83

Laurie's sailing directory for the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea; including the Adriatic Sea, the Sea of Marmora, the Euxine, or Black Sea, the Archipelago, the Levant and the coast of Africa Purdy, John 1856 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83(262)

Choosing war : Presidential decisions in the Maine, Lusitania, and Panay incidents /Douglas Carl Peifer. "China's expanding air and naval capabilities, coupled with the proliferation of long-range anti-ship and anti-air missile systems, are making US naval diplomacy an increasingly risky enterprise. It is surprising therefore how little attention has been devoted to comparing the way in which different administrations have reacted in dissimilar manners to major naval incidents. This book provides the first comparative analysis of multiple cases. In particular, it examines three incidents: the Maine incident (1898), which led to war in the short term; the Lusitania crisis (1915), which set the trajectory for intervention; and the Panay incident (1937), which was settled diplomatically. After scrutinizing these incidents and the domestic and international factors shaping the subsequent crisis, Douglas Carl Peifer analyses the presidential decision making in terms of options considered and policies selected. The book draws upon international relations and coercion theory but emphasizes the importance of context, complexity, and contingency when assessing presidential decision making. The contemporary tensions in East Asia, the Persian Gulf, the Baltic, and the Black Sea are increasingly vexing US naval diplomacy. By analyzing how Presidents William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt responded to the Maine, Lusitania, and Panay incidents, this book provides an essential instrument to deal with the growing threats of a new naval crisis."--Provided by the publisher. 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(73)

Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan : performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M C Perry, United States Navy, by order of the government of the United States Hawks, Francis L 1856 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82Powhatan

A memoir of the late Rev Richard Sheepshanks, MA : (extracted from the "Monthly Notices" of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. XVI. No. 4) 1856. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

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