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With Commodore Perry to Japan : the journal of William Speiden Jr., 1852-1855 /edited by John A. Wolter, David A. Ranzan, and John J. McDonough. "With Commodore Perry to Japan offers a personal account of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's expedition to Japan through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old purser's clerk of the USS Mississippi. The documentary edition, endorsed by the National Historic Publications & Records Commission, provides excellent coverage of both the political mission of the Perry expedition, the opening of relations with Japan, and of the social history of a naval warship as well. Also included are fifty-five illustrations ranging from hand drawn, pen-and-ink scenes of everyday life sketched by Speiden and other members of the crew to exquisitely detailed pith paintings by Chinese artists."--Provided by the publisher. [2013]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SPEIDEN

Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, FRS, Secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II / with a life and notes by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. Braybrooke, Richard Griffin,-Baron, 1911. • BOOK • 4 copies available. 92PEPYS(093.32)

Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys FRS : secretary to the admiralty in the reign of Charles II and James II /the diary deciphered by the Rev J. Smith a.m. from the original shorthand MS ; life and notes by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. Pepys, Samuel, 1887. • BOOK • 4 copies available. 92PEPYS(093.32)

Abridgments of the specifications relating to marine propulsion (excluding sails) in four parts Great Britain. Commissioners of Patents for Inventions 1858-1872 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 608.3:629.12.036/.037

Alumbrado y valizamientode las costas de Espana : plan genera para el alumbrado de las costas y puertos de Espana e islas Advencentes : propuesto por la comision especial de Faros, y aprobado por Real decreto de 15 de Setiembre de 1847 1858 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 627.715(46)

Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir W Edward Parry, Kt, FRS etc late Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital Parry, Edward 1858 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Parry

Memoirs of the life and services of Rear-Admiral Sir William Symonds, Kt, CB, FRS, Surveyor of the Navy from 1832 to 1847; with correspondence and other papers relative to the ships and vessels constructed upon his lines Symonds, William, Sir 1858 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12

Memoirs of the life and services of Rear-Admiral Sir William Symonds ... surveyor of the Navy from 1832 to 1847 : with correspondence and other papers relative to the ships and vessels constructed upon his lines ... Symonds, William, Sir 1858 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12(42)

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)

Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, FRS : secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II /the diary deciphered by the Rev J Smith, AM 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.

Around the world in a dugout canoe : the untold story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum /John M. MacFarlane and Lynn J. Salmon. "Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island. For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel. Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage - and the magnitude of Voss's accomplishment - is at last fully detailed. In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Voss's and Luxton's manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4/5

Address before the American association for the advancement of science : August, 1859 /by Professor Alexis Caswell Caswell, Alexis, 1859 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094

Tabulae reductionum observationum astronomicarum annis 1860 usque ad 1880 respondentes / Wolfers, J. Ph.-(Jakob Philipp), 1858. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52(083.5):094

Canada's bastions of empire : Halifax, Victoria and the Royal Navy 1749-1918 /Bryan Elson. "This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. Brian Elson focuses on the significance of the bases for the all-powerful British navy at Halifax and Victoria through the 19th century and the First World War. As he explains, Halifax gave the Royal Navy the land base they needed to project British power along the whole east Atlantic coast of North America. Victorias Esquimault did the same thing for the Pacific coast. During the 1800s the United States grew dramatically, adding huge swaths of lands west, south and north that had belonged to France, Spain, Mexico, and Russia while pushing aside native peoples. More than once the American government came into conflict with Britain over British territory in North America. There were threats of war and annexation, and American popular support for absorbing Canada was strong. In this book Bryan Elson shows how the British presence in Halifax, and later in Victoria, stood in the way of US designs on Canada. American leaders knew that the British Navy, with its bases on both coasts, had the power to cut them off from the rest of the world with a naval blockade. The American threat to Canada was effectively countered by the British presence in these two cities. The two bastions played their most important role in the early years of the First World War. As Bryan Elson explains, in 1914 the United States stood aside while the British Empire, including Canada, took on Germany. In this situation, the British navy including the Canadian navys first east coast warship mounted a show of force by stopping all incoming and outgoing traffic from the port of New York. This lasted until the US finally opted into the war, on the side of Britain, in 1917. Meanwhile, on the west coast the Equimault naval base was buttressed by the extraordinary action of the B.C. provincial government which at the start of the war bought two new submarines from a shipyard in Seattle for the fledgling Canadian navy."--Provided by the publisher. 2014 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42+71)

The China station : war and diplomacy, 1830-1860 / by Gerald S. Graham. Graham, Gerald S 1978. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1830/1860"(51)

Navy : return of the number of able bodied seamen who volunteered from the merchant sevice for the Navy from... October 1853 to... December 1854.. . Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 1858 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22

An abstract of the returns made to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade of wrecks and casualties which occurred on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom from the 1st January to the 31st December 1857 Great Britain. Parliament 1858 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61.085(42)

Album des pavillons, guidons, flammes de toutes les puissances maritimes Le Gras, A 1858 • FOLIO • 3 copies available. 929.9.024.2

The librarian's manual : a treatise on bibliography, comprising a select and descriptive list of bibliographical works to which are added Sketches of public libraries ; Illustrated with engravings /by Reuben A. Guild. Guild, Reuben Aldridge, 1858. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 010

Horological Journal 1858- • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.

Visitation and search : or an historical sketch of the British claim to exercise a maritime police over the vessels of all nations in peace as well as in war, with an inquiry into the expediency of terminating the eighth article of the Ashburton Treaty /by William Beach Lawrence. Lawrence, William Beach, 1800-1881. [ca.2010] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(42):341(26)

Mathematical tracts: on the lunar and planetary theories, the figure of the earth, precession and nutation, the calculus of variations, and the undulatory theory of optics Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1858 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 51

The story of the telegraph and a history of the great Atlantic cable / by Charles F. Briggs and Augustus Maverick. Briggs, Charles F.-(Charles Frederick), [2005?] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.725(091)

Three reports on the use of the steam coals of the Hartley district of Northumberland in marine boilers Armstrong, W. G.-(William George),-Baron, 1858 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 621.12:662.66

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