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The arctic Whaling Journals of William Scorseby the Younger: Volume 1 The voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813 "William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to his father and another three years saw him promoted to chief officer. On his 21st birthday 'the earliest at which, by reason of age, I could legally hold a command' his father moved to Greenock and another ship, relinquishing the Resolution to his son".--Provided by the publisher. The introduction to this book gives extensive background to Scoresby's family, the whaling process and the development of scientific information relating to the arctic region. The journals of the three voyages follow, with maps of the journeys and illustrations. 2003 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.245.1

Kendall's longitude "Lost at sea: every mariner's fear. Maritime navigational tools could find latitude, but finding longitude remained elusive until Harrison developed the reliable sea clock, H4. Building on H4's success, Kendall made a series of nautical timekeepers, K1, K2 and K3. This is the story of the K2 timekeeper; its adventurous voyages, the people it touched, and its place in history. K2's first voyage, accompanied by the young Nelson, was nearly its last in the crushing Arctic ice. The next two expeditions saw it survive kidnappings, nautical intrigue, and gunpowder plots of the American revolutionary wars. The slave coasts of Africa followed. Bligh took K2 on the Bounty, but lost it in a fight with the mutineers in 1789. It was recovered by an American Quaker from Nantucket, only to be stolen by the Spanish. It rode on mules along the Andes before sailing into the Opium Wars. K2 finally returned to Greenwich in 1963."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527

John Scott : Nelson's secretary and friend, 1764-1805 / a personal account by John Maynard "Scott may be known for his death on the Victory at Trafalgar, but his remarkable life also deserves to be known. Born in 1764 where the Spey runs into the Moray Firth, the son of a tenant farmer on the Gordon Estate, he moved to London and gained business experience before entering the Navy as a purser in 1789. Progressing from modest sloops to major ships, he also served as secretary to three different Admirals, winning their trust and affection, before joining the Victory as Nelson?s secretary in 1803. His letters to his wife Charlotte show his deep affection for his family, as well as revealing insights into the way Nelson won the hearts and loyalty of those who served under him. This story is both heartwarming and heartbreaking." 2023 • BOOK • 1 copy available.

The present state of Europe briefly examined and found languishing, occasioned by the greatness of the French monarchy: for cure whereof a remedy ... is humbly proposed to His Royal Highness William Henry Prince of Orange, and to the great convention of the Lords and Commons now assembled at Westminster. Wrote upon occasion of the House of Common's vote to raise 800,000 l to equip a fleet for the year 1671 ... Manley, Thomas 1789 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:355.02(42)"1671"

Alejandro Malaspina : portrait of a visionary "Examining the ideas, political views, and ambitions of an extraordinary navigator, John Kendrick takes us on a voyage across the Pacific via South America, the Philippines, New Zealand, Australia, the Tonga Islands, and North America, chronicling the life of Alejandro Malaspina. Malaspina's Pacific voyage of 1789 was the last and most important of his career - a five-year scientific and political examination of the Spanish colonies in the Americas and the Philippines. On his return, Malaspina was commissioned to author a report that would help Spain establish itself as a modern enlightened state. Malaspina's proposal that the king dismiss all his ministers and replace them with individuals who shared his visionary plan resulted in an unanimous vote by the State Council that the plan was seditious and Malaspina was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the fortress of San Anton. At the urging of Napoleon he was released after serving eight years and was exiled to Italy, where he died in 1810, just as the revolts of the Spanish colonies in the Americas were starting - as he had predicted."--Provided by the publisher. 1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(265/266)"1789"

Convicts of Lincolnshire / [research by C.L. Anderson]. Anderson, C L (comp) 1988. • PAMPHLET • 3 copies available. 343.87(944)"17/18"

An African's life : the life and times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745-1797 /James Walvin. A biography of Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), known as Gustavus Vassa for much of his life. Enslaved at the age of about eleven, Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity, eventually buying his freedom in 1766. Thereafter, much of his life was spent in London and at sea on British ships. He was an early campaigner against the slave trade, was employed by the British Government as an agent in their efforts to ship the black poor from London to Sierra Leone and was a leading member of the Sons of Africa, a campaigning group of educated black Londoners. Frequently called on as a spokesman for the black community, Equiano became a public figure in his own lifetime, publishing his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, in 1789 which became one of the first examples of published writing by an African writer to be widely read. 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92EQUIANO

Lettres patentes du Roi, en forme de declaration, qui suppriment les communautes d'orfevres, & autres ouvriers employant des matieres d'or & d'argent, ci-devant etablies dans les villes du ressort du Parlement du Rouen : et reunissent les professions d'orfevres, lapidaires, joailliers & horologers, pour ne former a l'avenir qu'une seule communaute dans les villes du ressort, dont l'etat est ci-attache. Donnes a Versailles le 27 Juin 1779. Registrees en la Cour des Monnies le 4 Aout suivant 1779 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11

Modern naval history : Debates and prospects /Richard Harding. "Specifically structured around research questions and avenues for further study, and providing the historical context to enable this further research, Modern Naval History is a key historiographical guide for students wishing to gain a deeper understanding of naval history and its contemporary relevance. Navies play an important role in the modern world, and the globalisation of economies, cultures and societies has placed a premium on maritime communications. Modern Naval History demonstrates the importance of naval history today, showing its relevance to a number of disciplines and its role in understanding how navies relate to their host societies. Richard Harding explains why naval history is still important, despite slipping from the attention of policy makers and the public since 1945, and how it can illuminate answers to questions relating to economic, diplomatic, political, social and cultural history. The book explores how naval history has informed these fields and how it can produce a richer and more informed historical understanding of navies and sea power."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49

The quiet revolution of Caroline Herschel : the lost heroine of astronomy /Emily Winterburn. "Caroline Herschel was a prolific writer and recorder of her private and academic life, through diaries, autobiographies for family members, notebooks and observation notes. Yet for reasons unknown she destroyed all of her notebooks and diaries from 1788-1797. As a result, we have almost no record of the decade in which she made her most influential mark on science when she discovered eight comets and became the first woman to have a paper read at the Royal Society. ... By piecing together - from letters, reminiscences and museum objects - a detailed account of the time, we get to see a new side to history's 'most admirable lady astronomer' and one of the greatest pioneering female scientists of all time."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HERSCHEL

Expose des operations faites en France en 1787 : pour la jonction des observatoires de Paris et de Greenwich /par MM. Cassini, Mechain et le Gendre, Membres de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Cassini, Câesar-Franðcois, 1789 • RARE-PAMPH • 2 copies available. 528.42:094

A specimen of a general astronomical catalogue, arranged in zones of north polar distance, and adapted to Jan. 1, 1790 : containing a comparative view of the mean positions of stars, nebulae and clusters of stars, as they come out upon calculation from the tables of several principal observers; together with a proposal for setting on foot some regular method of observing the heavens, through the concurrent assistance of astronomers in all nations; in order to from a more perfect register of their present state, and discover any alterations to which they may regularly be subject, or which they may at any time hereafter undergo Wollaston, Francis 1789 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Lloyd's list 1740 [i.e. 1741]- • MICROFILM • 4 copies available.

Sailing school : navigating science and skill, 1550-1800 /Margaret E. Schotte. "Throughout the Age of Exploration, European maritime communities bent on colonial and commercial expansion embraced the complex mechanics of celestial navigation. They developed schools, textbooks, and instruments to teach the new mathematical techniques to sailors. As these experts debated the value of theory and practice, memory and mathematics, they created hybrid models that would have a lasting impact on applied science. In Sailing School, a richly illustrated comparative study of this transformative period, Margaret E. Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land. She begins by outlining the influential sixteenth-century Iberian model for training and certifying nautical practitioners. She takes us into a Dutch bookshop stocked with maritime manuals and a French trigonometry lesson devoted to the idea that "navigation is nothing more than a right triangle." The story culminates at the close of the eighteenth century with a young British naval officer who managed to keep his damaged vessel afloat for two long months, thanks largely to lessons he learned as a keen student. This is the first study to trace the importance, for the navigator's art, of the world of print. Schotte interrogates a wide variety of archival records from six countries, including hundreds of published textbooks and never-before-studied manuscripts crafted by practitioners themselves. Ultimately, Sailing School helps us to rethink the relationship among maritime history, the Scientific Revolution, and the rise of print culture during a period of unparalleled innovation and global expansion."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527

Lloyd's list. 1740 [i.e. 1741]- • JOURNAL • 5 copies available.

Tables of logarithms of all numbers from 1 to 101000 : and of the sines and tangents to every second of the quadrant /by Michael Taylor ; with a preface and precepts for the explanation and use of the same by Nevil Maskelyne. Taylor, Michael, 1792 • RARE-FOLIO • 11 copies available. 094:519.662.097

Toussaint Louverture : a revolutionary life /Philippe Girard. "In Toussaint Louverture, Philippe Girard reveals the dramatic story of how Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman to revolutionary hero. In 1791, the unassuming Louverture masterminded the only successful slave revolt in history. By 1801, he was general and governor of Saint-Domingue, and an international statesman who forged treaties with Britain, France, Spain, and the United States-empires that feared the effect his example would have on their slave regimes. Louveture's ascendency was short-lived, however. In 1802, he was exiled to France, dying soon after as one of the most famous men in the world, variously feared and celebrated as the "Black Napoleon." As Girard shows, in life Louverture was not an idealist, but an ambitious pragmatist. He strove not only for abolition and independence, but to build Saint-Domingue's economic might and elevate his own social standing. He helped free Saint-Domingue's slaves yet immediately restricted their rights in the interests of protecting the island's sugar production. He warded off French invasions but embraced the cultural model of the French gentility. In death, Louverture quickly passed into legend, his memory inspiring abolitionist, black nationalist, and anti-colonialist movements well into the 20th century. Deeply researched and bracingly original, Toussaint Louverture is the definitive biography of one of the most influential people of his era, or any other."--Provided by the publisher. 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92LOUVERTURE

Jane Austen's transatlantic sister : the life and letters of Fanny Palmer Austen /Sheila Johnson Kindred. "In 1807, genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy. Experiencing adventure and adversity in wartime conditions both at sea and onshore, the spirited and resilient Fanny travelled between Bermuda, Nova Scotia, and England. After crossing the Atlantic in 1811, she ingeniously made a home for Charles and their daughters aboard a working naval vessel, and developed a supportive friendship with his sister, Jane. In Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister, Fanny's articulate and informative letters - transcribed in full for the first time and situated in their meticulously researched historical context - disclose her quest for personal identity and autonomy, her maturation as a wife and mother, and the domestic, cultural, and social milieu she inhabited. Sheila Johnson Kindred also investigates how Fanny was a source of naval knowledge for Jane, and how far she was an inspiration for Austen's literary invention, especially for the female naval characters in Persuasion. Although she died young, Fanny's story is a compelling record of female naval life that contributes significantly to our limited knowledge of women's roles in the Napoleonic Wars. Enhanced by rarely seen illustrations, Fanny's life story is a rich new source for Jane Austen scholars and fans of her fiction, as well as for those interested in biography, women's letters, and history of the family."--Provided by publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92AUSTEN

A voyage round the world, but more particularly to the North-West coast of America : performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon Dixon, George 1789 • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 094:910.4(100)"1785/1788"

Tables requisite to be used with the astronomical and nautical ephemeris. Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude. Great Britain.-Commissioners of Longitude. MDCCLXVI. [1766] • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 527.093:094

Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World : the Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700-1850 /edited by Richard Harding and Agustâin Guimerâa. "The naval leader has taken centre stage in traditional naval histories. However, while the historical narrative has been fairly consistent the development of various navies has been accompanied by assumptions, challenges and competing visions of the social characteristics of naval leaders and of their function. Whilst leadership has been a constant theme in historical studies, it has not been scrutinised as a phenomenon in its own right. This book examines the critical period in Europe between 1700 -1850, when political, economic and cultural shifts were bringing about a new understanding of the individual and of society. Bringing together context with a focus on naval leadership as a phenomenon is at the heart of this book, a unique collaborative venture between British, French and Spanish scholars. As globalisation develops in the twenty-first century the significance of navies looks set to increase. This volume of essays aims to place naval leadership in its historical context."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133.4(4)"1700/1850"

Imperial unknowns : the French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750 /Cornel Zwierlein (Bochum University, Germany). "In this major new study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we understand the very act of ignoring--in political, economic, religious, cultural and scientific communication--as a fundamental trigger that sets knowledge in motion? Zwierlein explores whether the Scientific Revolution between 1650 and 1750 can be understood as just one of what were in fact many simultaneous epistemic movements and considers the role of the European empires in this phenomenon. Deconstructing central categories like the mercantilist 'national', the exchange of 'confessions' between Western and Eastern Christians and the bridging of cultural gaps between European and Ottoman subjects, Zwierlein argues that understanding what was not known by historical agents can be just as important as the history of knowledge itself"--Provided by publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 327.440182/2

Uproar! : scandal, satire and printmakers in Georgian London /Alice Loxton. "London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstreets of the capital, on his way to begin his studies at the Royal Academy Schools. Within a few years, James Gillray and Isaac Cruikshank would join him in Piccadilly, turning satire into an artform, taking on the British establishment, and forever changing the way we view power. Set against a backdrop of royal madness, political intrigue, the birth of modern celebrity, French revolution, American independence and the Napoleonic Wars, UPROAR! follows the satirists as they lampoon those in power, from the Prince Regent to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Their prints and illustrations deconstruct the political and social landscape with surreal and razor-sharp wit, as the three men vie with each other to create the most iconic images of the day. Alice Loxton's writing fizzes with energy on every page, and never fails to convince us that Gillray and his gang profoundly altered British humour, setting the stage for everything from Gilbert and Sullivan to Private Eye and Spitting Image today. This is a book that will cause readers to reappraise everything they think they know about genteel Georgian London, and see it for what it was - a time of UPROAR!"--Publisher's description. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.107

Tales from the Captain's Log : from Captain Cook to Charles Darwin, Blackbeard and Nelson - accounts of great events at sea from those who were there "For centuries, ships' commanders kept journals that recorded their missions. These included voyages of discovery to unknown lands, engagements in war and sea and general trade. Many of their logs, diaries and letters were lodged at The National Archives and give a vivid picture of the situations that they encountered. Entries range from Captain James Cook's notes of his discovery of the South Pacific and Australia, to logs of the great naval battles, such as Waterloo and Trafalgar. From the ships that attempted to stop piracy in the Caribbean, to the surgeons who recorded the health of the men they tended and naturalists who noted the exotic plants and animals they encountered, comes a fascinating picture of life at sea, richly illustrated with maps, drawings and facsimile documents found alongside the logs in the archives."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(100)

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