The Bartlett Library holds some 18,000 volumes on our open shelves, having grown by gift and purchase, from the core collection of 6,000 volumes, generously donated by our benefactor J. V. Bartlett Esq., in 2003.
Significant loans from the Cornwall Library Service (including a number of Lloyd’s Registers), together with gifts from many individuals have greatly increased the size and value of the collection since our establishment in 2003, supplemented by the Peter and Julie Newall Library in 2018.
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Letter Book Packet Office 1778-1781 1810-1812 | Letter Book | Postal Heritage Trust | packet letter | |
| Letter Book Packet Office 1812-1813 1813-1815 | Letter Book | Postal Heritage Trust | packet letter | |
| Letter Book Packet Office 1815-1816 1816-1819 | Letter Book | Postal Heritage Trust | packet letter | |
| Letter Book Packet Office 1819-1824 | Letter Book | Postal Heritage Trust | packet letter | |
| Letters and Papers of Professor Sir John Knox Laughton 1830-1915 | Letters and Papers | Ashgate | 0-7546-0822-0 | navy naval history historian college Laughton science Nelson |
| Letters for the Millenium | Lloyd-Jones, Emma | Cardozo Kindersley | 1-874426-11-2 | slate stone monument |
| Letters from a Bank Line Tramp | Mills, Chris | Ocean Steamers Publishing | 1-876261-61-7 | Haleric biography Bank Line tramp |
| Letters from America | Letters from America | Gwynedd Archives Service | Portmadoc sociology letters US Revenue | |
| Letters from High Latitudes | Dufferin, Lord | John Murray | yacht cruising adventure travel exploration sociology | |
| Letters from High Latitudes | Dufferin, Lord | Merlin | ||
| Letters from the Titanic | Wetterholm, Claes-Goran | 91-973472-5-6 | Titanic migration letter mail | |
| Letters of Lord Barham Vol 1 | Letters of Lord Barham | Navy Records Society | Barham navy RN Middleton Pitt Admiralty US independence mutiny court martial | |
| Letters of Lord Barham Vol 2 | Letters of Lord Barham | Navy Records Society | Barham navy RN Middleton Pitt Admiralty | |
| Letters of Lord Barham Vol 3 | Letters of Lord Barham | Navy Records Society | Barham navy RN Middleton Pitt Admiralty | |
| Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton [The] | Nelson, Horatio | Amazon | 978-1480051-88-1 | Nelson Admiral Royal Navy Emma Hamilton letters Napoleonic Wars |
| Letters of Samuel Pepys [The] | Letters of Samuel Pepys | The Boydell Press | 1-84383-197-X | Pepys navy diary list chronology Legge JamesII CharlesII Coventry Deane Brouncker |
| Letters of the English Seamen 1587-1808 | Letters of the English | Chapman & Hall | Francis Drake Armada Gravelines Spanish war Walsyngham John Hawkins Samuel Hood Admiral Hawke Keppel Captain Nelson General Blake Lord Collingwood Anson Howe Sir Troubridge Vincent Trafalgar Battle of Nile Baltic | |
| Letters to Young and Old | Earle, C W | Smith Elder & Co | anthology Germany health food gardening Paris | |
| Levant a Champion Cornish Mine | Corin, John | Trevithick Society | 0-904040-37-2 | mining Cornwall |
| Levelling Sea [The] | Marsden, Philip | Harper Press | 978-0-00-717453-9 | Cornwall Falmouth Killigrew |
| Levingston A Tradition of Excellence | Levingston | Levingston | shipbuilding engineering crane construction ferry drydock | |
| Lewis Harding Cornwalls Pioneer Photographer | Correll, Philip M | 0-9530012-4-5 | Cornwall Polperro sociology photography | |
| Lexikon der Segelschiffs-typen | Hansen, Clas Broder | Urbes Verlag | 3-924896-10-0 | sail trawler barque smack lugger schooner |
| Leyte 1944-1945 Vol 12 | Morison, Samuel Eliot | Little, Brown and Co | Morotai Palaus Ulithi Formosa Suriago Samar Cape Engano Barbey Berkey Bluejackets Bogan Davison Fukudome Halsey Kinkaid MacArthur McCain Shima Sprague Toyoda Weyler Wilkinson Yamashita | |
| Leyte Gulf | Macintyre, Donald | Macdonald and Co | Sibuyan Sea Surigao Strait Samar Kamikaze Pacific | |
| Liaaen Standard Designs | Liaaen Standard Designs | A M Liaaen | catalogue Norway diving platform anchor handling tug offshore survey fishing factory trawler propeller thruster joystick | |
| Liberation of the Philippines 1944-1945 [The] Vol 13 | Morison, Samuel Eliot | Little, Brown and Co | Luzon Mindoro Lingayen Palawan Zamboanga Visayas Mindanao Borneo Pacific Barbey Berkey Combat Air Patrol Eichelberger escort guerrillas Halsey kamikaze Kinkaid MacArthur Nimitz Oldendorf Wilkinson | |
| Liberia the Elder Dempster Line and British Paquebot Cancellations | Cockrill, Philip | Philip Cockrill | Elder Dempster cancellation postmark mail slavery Africa | |
| Liberty | Elphick, Peter | Chatham | 1-86176-158-9 | US merchant navy shipbuilding Thompson list warlosses gas Land Churchill Bull Bari |
| Liberty en Guerre | Brouard, Jean-Yves | JYB Aventures | 979-1-0900830-3-5 | WW2 US shipbuilding welding training dazzle hospital amphibious |
| Liberty Ships | Bunker, John Gorley | Naval Institute Press | 0-87021-340-7 | |
| Liberty Ships [The] | Jaffee, Walter W | Glencannon Press | 1-889901-25-3 | WW2 Liberty US shipbuiding tanker collier warloss law |
| Liberty Ships [The] | Sawyer, L A | Lloyds of London Press | 1-85044-049-3 | Liberty design cargo collier aircraft transport Sam troopship hospital laidup |
| Liberty Ships [The] | Sawyer, L A | David & Charles | 0-7153-4907-4 | Liberty cargo collier aircraft troopship hospital laidup |
| Liberty Ships in Peacetime | Stewart, I G | Ian Stewart Marine Publications | 0-646-05907-4 | Liberty design construction SanFrancisco |
| Liberty’s Provenance | Henshaw, John | Seaforth | 978-1-5267-5063–1 | Liberty WW2 Sunderland design construction deck plan section tanker aircraft carrier |
| Libras Don’t Say No | Swale, Rosie | Granada | 0-236-40172-6 | yacht humour adventure finance |
| Lido Fleet [The] | Kohler, Peter C | Seadragon Press | 0-9660352-0-5 | Italy company linerpassenger steamer Lido Atlantic Trieste |
| Life Afloat | Wilson, Robert J | Robert Wilson | canal barge sociology butty Blue Line Coventry Stoke Bruerne Oxford | |
| Life and Death in the Age of Sail | Haines, Robin | UNSW Press | 0-948065-70-2 | migration Australia South Queensland Victoria New South Wales health illness mortality food aborigines discipline punishment selection employment surgeons births |
| Life and Death of the Liverpool Barque Dryad [The] | Alexander, Henry G L | Aunemouth Books | 0-9549022-0-03 | barque square rig Liverpool diving sociology log shipwreck |
| Life and Letters of David, Earl Beatty | Chalmers, W S | Hodder & Stoughton | biography Beatty Jellicoe Jutland tactics | |
| Life and Services of Horatio Viscount Nelson [The] Vol 1 | Clarke, James Stanier | Fisher Son & Co | Collingwood West Indies Honduras Agamemnon Rodney Pitt Alassio Genoa | |
| Life and Services of Horatio Viscount Nelson [The] Vol 3 | Clarke, James Stanier | Fisher Son & Co | France Algiers Sardinia Spain Barbados Tobago Greenwich Dublin | |
| Life and Times of the Steam Packet [The] | Shepherd, John | Ferry Publications | 1-87194-27-8 | IoM steam packet ferry paddlesteamer Mersey Ro-Ro |
| Life and Work at Sea | Huggett, Frank E | Harrap | 0-245-51943-2 | navy RN merchant history conditions WW1 WW2 nautical life pirates press gang East Indiamen |
| Life and Work of James Abernethy Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers [The] | Abernethy, John Scott | London T Brettell Co | 978-1-152-54452-9 | Cornwall Aberdeen Birkenhead Newport Swansea Donegal Venice |
| Life at Sea | Cooke, Arthur O | Henry Frowde Hodder & Stoughton | Plymouth fishing Pelican birds gulls Hull lobster Fastnet Cornwall | |
| Life at Sea a Voyage to New Zealand | Life at Sea | Unwin Brothers | 0-9502121-9-9 | sociology journal New Zealand |
| Life at Sea in the Age of Sail | Thrower, W R | Phillimore | 900592-25-7 | sociology victualing mutiny deckplan art |