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Methodes mathâematiques et expâerimentales : pour discerner les mâelanges et les combinaisons chimiques dâefinies ou non dâefinies, qui agissent sur la lumiáere polarisâee; suivies d'applications aux combinaisons de l'acide tartrique avec l'eau, l'alcool et l'esprit de bois /par M. Biot. Biot, Jean-Baptiste, [1838] • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 54:094

The navy of Edward VI and Mary I / edited by C.S. Knighton and David Loades. 2011. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22NRS

Wales and the British overseas empire : interactions and influences, 1650-1830 /edited by H.V.Bowen. Examines the many relationships between Wales and the expanding British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830, including economic, social, cultural, political, and religious interactions. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.9"16/18"

An empire of ice : Scott, Shackleton, and the heroic age of Antarctic science /Edward J. Larson. Larson, Edward J.-(Edward John) 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(99):5/6"19"

Titanic : the unfolding story /Richard Havers and Carol King. "Titanic- The Unfolding Story as told by The Daily Mirror offers a unique insight into this terrible, yet endlessly fascinating, disaster. It tells the whole story: from the commissioning of the Titanic and her sister ship the Olympic following their construction, launches and maiden voyages, through to the Titanic's demise, the immediate aftermath, and the very public enquiries on both sides of the Atlantic. Based on the words of contemporary newspaper reports the story comes alive as it never has before. The depth of detail is fascinating, revealing fresh insights into a tragedy that continues to captivate us today. Use of contemporary newspaper photography and iconic images all help to make this book one of a kind."--from publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3TITANIC

Nile 1798 : Nelson's first great victory /Gregory Fremont-Barnes. Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1798"(621)

Seaforth world naval review 2012 / editor, Conrad Waters. "Since its launch in 2009 this annual has rapidly established a reputation as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months. It combines the standing features of regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship projects, it also looks at wider issues of importance to navies, such as aviation and electronics, and calls on expertise from around the globe to give a balanced picture of what is going on and to interpret its significance. This year's special features include an analysis of the lates UK Defence Review, in-depth studies of the navies of Australia, Chile and Pakistan, and spotlights on new warship classes: the USN's latest LHD, USS Makin Island; Sweden's stealth corvette Visby; and a range of British-built offshore patrol vessels. For anyone with an interest in contemporary naval affairs, whether an enthusiast or a defence professional, this annual has become required reading."--Back cover 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353"2012"

Mapping the Universe : the interactive history of astronomy /Paul Murdin. This book is the story of man's quest through the ages to unlock the secrets of our universe, understand where we come from and where we are going. Lavishly illustrated throughout, it follows this journey for knowledge from the first musings of Stone Age people on the position of the stars and planets in the sky, to Galileo's first visions of Orion through a telescope, to our first steps on the moon, and right up to the photographs of our magnificent universe which are being sent back from the Plank telescope today. Beautifully reproduced documents make it possible for the reader to experience hands-on, and appreciate at each stage, what over ten thousand years of history astronomers were discovering, and how and why this was significant. 2011. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 52

A far off vision : a Cornishman at Greenwich Observatory : auto-biographical notes /by Edwin Dunkin ; with notes on the lives & work of his father, brother and son ; transcribed, edited and with an introduction by P.D. Hingley & T.C. Daniel ; preface to the 1999 edition by Allan Chapman. Dunkin, Edwin, 1999. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92DUNKIN

Nautical and commercial pocket-Dictionary and dialogue-book for navigators, merchants, and travellers, in eight languages; viz. the English, French, Danish, German, Swedish, Dutch. Spanish and Italian : as also the denomination of the principal articles of merchandise in 11 languages with two flagmaps /C. Henckel and W.F. Born Henckel, C 1836. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 800.866:656.61

The line of battle : the sailing warship 1650-1840 1992 • FOLIO • 4 copies available. 623.823.2

National Maritime Museum : souvenir guide /edited by Pieter van der Merwe. 2012 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 069(26:421.6)

British naval aviation : the first 100 years /Tim Benbow. Benbow, Tim 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.38(42)"1909/2009"

The photography of Bedford Lemere & Co / Nicholas Cooper. Bedford Lemere & Co was the pre-eminent English firm of architectural photographers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Taking photographs at a time of extraordinary change and unparalleled optimism, its customers were leading architects, designers, industrialists, estate agents, hoteliers and retailers. Over the years Bedford Lemere & Co. photographed country houses, factories, hospitals, shops, banks, railway stations, cruise liners and, during the First World War, armaments manufacture. Its work centred on London, but it received commissions throughout the British Isles and occasionally from abroad. The firm's work was technically outstanding and executed with a distinctive sympathy for its subject matter. Its photographs are perfect illustrations of the buildings of a confident age. 2011. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 77"19/20"

Bombay Islam : the religious economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 /Nile Green. "As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green's Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism, and the production of religion to show how Muslim migration from the oceanic and continental hinterlands of Bombay in this period fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers, as Christian missionaries competed with Muslim religious entrepreneurs for a stake in the new market. Enabled by a colonial policy of non-intervention in religious affairs, and powered by steam travel and vernacular printing, Bombay's Islamic productions were exported as far as South Africa and Iran. Connecting histories of religion, labour, and globalization, the book examines the role of ordinary people mill hands and merchants in shaping the demand that drove the market. By drawing on hagiographies, travelogues, doctrinal works, and poems in Persian, Urdu, and Arabic, Bombay Islam unravels a vernacular modernity that saw people from across the Indian Ocean drawn into Bombay's industrial economy of enchantment"-- 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 930.9:33(547.1)

Deterrence through strength : British naval power and foreign policy under Pax Britannica /Rebecca Berens Matzke. Matzke, Rebecca Berens. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.462(42)"18"

God's empire : religion and colonialism in the British World, c.1801-1908 /Hilary M. Carey. A history of the colonial missionary movement. This wide-ranging reassessment of the religious character of the British empire provides a clear account of the promotional strategies of the major churches and church parties which worked to plant settler Christianity in British domains. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 27-76(42-44)

The slave trade / James Walvin. History Files: This new paperback series presents the people, events, and ideas that shaped our past and made our present. Drawing upon the latest research, the books are abundantly illustrated with telling images from out-of-the-way sources, and offer the tangible fragments of vanished times in the form of loose-leaf facsimile documents that are included in the books. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

Women, dissent and anti-slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865 / edited by Elizabeth J. Clapp and Julie Roy Jeffrey. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42:73)"17/18"-055.2

Citizen sailors : the Royal Navy in the Second World War /Glyn Prysor. From the Battle of Dunkirk to the sinking of the Bismark and Scharnhorst, "Citizen Sailors" is the first definitive history of the Royal Navy in WWII. Drawing on hundreds of contemporary diaries and letters, along with memoirs, oral history and official documents, Glyn Prysor paints a vivid human panorama of the war at sea: nerve-wracking convoys, epic gun battles, devastating aerial bombardment and swashbuckling amphibious landings. Seen through the eyes of sailors themselves, it is a compelling account of daily humanity, horror, triumph and tragedy, and shows how the Royal Navy fought in every conceivable vessel from vast aircraft carriers and cramped corvettes, to fast motor boats, rickety minesweepers, Swordfish biplanes and aging submarines. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1939/1945"(42)

Collecting across cultures : material exchanges in the early Atlantic world /edited by Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall. "The fourteen essays in Collecting Across Cultures represent new work by an international group of historians, art historians, and historians of science. Each author explores a specific aspect of the cross-cultural history of collecting and display from the dawn of the sixteenth century to the early decades of the nineteenth century. As the essays attest, an examination of early modern collecting in cross-cultural contexts sheds light on the creative and complicated ways in which objects in collections served to create knowledge - some factual, some fictional - about distant peoples in an increasingly transnational world."-- Publisher's website. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.074(4:6/8)

Misfortunes and shipwrecks in the seas of the Indies, islands, and mainland of the ocean sea (1513-1548) : book fifty of the General and natural history of the Indies /Gonzalo Fernâandez de Oviedo ; translated and edited by Glen F. Dille. Fernâandez de Oviedo y Valdâes, Gonzalo, 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3(728/729)"15":091

The company-state : corporate sovereignty and the early modern foundation of the British Empire in India /Philip J. Stern. Stern, Philip J. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.71EAST INDIA:325.36

A history of early Southeast Asia : maritime trade and societal development, 100-1500 /Kenneth R. Hall. Hall, Kenneth R. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 308:656.6(5-12)"100/1500"

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