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A.J. Dale log of the HMS Ranger

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Description: Log book with navigational information, mathematical exercises, and detailed daily entries concerning the activities of the Ranger while crusing off the coast of West Africa, charged with interdicting slave ships sailing between Africa and the Western Hemisphere. The volume includes comments on military and diplomatic efforts against the slave tade, encounters with American ships, and a one-day cruise up the Congo River.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1859-1863.
Call number: mssHM 64534
Creator: Dale, A. J (active 1859-1863)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from M&S Rare Books, Inc., of 20 December 2001.

Horatio Thomas Austin log of the HMS Salamander (Steam Sloop) and the HMS Medea (Steam Sloop)

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The present volume contains meticulously detailed ships' logs for the Steam Sloop HMS Salamander (April 10, 1833 - February 14, 1834) and the Steam Sloop HMS Medea (February 15-October 17, 1834) during the time each was commanded, in succession, by Captain Austin. During this period the ships were stationed primarily in British home waters: at Plymouth, Woolwich Dockyard, the Thames, and the Channel, and briefly off the coast of northern Spain. Included are fifteen miniature watercolor paintings of ships, coastlines, and the sea.

mssHM 70180

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Richard Malone log of the HMS Harrier

Manuscripts

This ships' log was kept by Richard Malone for Commander Carew during the Harrier's three voyages to South America. Also included is the log of a short voyage in the Excellent, under Captain Sir Thomas Hastings. The volume includes ten manuscript maps (chiefly of waters off South America), one chart, and six original wash drawings of local views, profile elevations, etc., of Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Northern Peru, and other South American locales.

mssHM 70181

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Refractive Africa : ballet of the forgotten

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""The poet is endemic with life itself," Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. "This being the ballet of the forgotten," he writes as diasporic witness, "of refracted boundary points as venom." The volume's opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola; it ends with an encomium to the modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo-two writers whose luminous art suffered "colonial wrath through refraction." A tribute to the Congo forms the bridge and brisé vole of the book: the Congo as "charged aural colony" and "primal interconnection," a "subliminal psychic force" with a colonial and postcolonial history dominated by the Occident. Will Alexander's improvisatory cosmicity pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance-incantatory and swirling with magical laterality and recovery"--

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Portolan atlas : [cartographic material] : [manuscript], approximately 1540

Manuscripts

World atlas containing 11 nautical charts, table of declinations, etc.: 1. f. 2v: Table of declinations 2. f. 3: Armillary sphere 3. ff. 3v-4: Zodiac 4. ff. 4v-5: Pacific Ocean with portions of North America, South America, Asia, and East Indies 5. ff. 5v-6: Atlantic Ocean with portions of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa 6. ff. 6v-7: Indian Ocean, Africa, and southern Asia 7. ff. 7v-8: British Isles and central Europe 8. ff. 8v-9: Iberian peninsula and northwest Africa 9. ff. 9v-10: Western Mediterranean 10. ff. 10v-11: Central Mediterranean and Italy 11. ff. 11v-12: Eastern Mediterranean area and Aegean Sea 12. ff. 12v-13: Black Sea 13. ff. 13v-14: Oval map of the world (showing 2 routes: from Spain to Peru, and around the world via the Moluccas) 14. ff. 14v-15: Atlantic hemisphere with Antarctic continent (incomplete)

mssHM 26

Portolan atlas : [cartographic material] : [manuscript], 1553

Manuscripts

World atlas containing 10 nautical charts, table of declinations, etc.: 1. f. 1v: Circular calendar 2. f. 2v: Table of declinations 3. f. 3: Armillary sphere 4. ff. 3v-4: Zodiac with small Atlantic hemisphere in center with a central cord to be used as a pointer 5. ff. 4v-5: Pacific Ocean with portions of North America, South America, Asia, and East Indies 6. ff. 5v-6: Atlantic Ocean with portions of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa 7. ff. 6v-7: Indian Ocean, Africa, southern Asia, and portion of East Indies 8. ff. 7v-8: British Isles, France, and northern Spain 9. ff. 8v-9: Iberian peninsula and northwest Africa 10. ff. 9v-10: Western Mediterranean and Italy 11. ff. 10v-11: Eastern Mediterranean, Italy, and Aegean Sea 12. ff. 11v-12: Black Sea 13. ff. 12v-13: Aegean Sea 14. ff. 13v-14: Oval map of the world (showing one route: around the world via the Moluccas) 15. f. 14v: Ruling for calendar.

mssHM 27

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John O. Wilson's U.S. Navy Remarks on board the U.S. Frigate Constellation Commodore A.J. Dallas

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Journal that John O. Wilson kept onboard the Constellation from Oct. 8, 1835 to Feb. 28, 1836, including logs of winds, distances, courses, coordinates, remarks about works on rigging and sails, activities onboard, water expended, encounters with American and foreign ships, etc.

mssHM 69807

A.J. Dale log of the HMS Ranger

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