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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artesania Latina Catalogue 2003 | Artesania Latina Catalogue | Artesania Latina | catalogue model | |
| Artful Roux [The]: Marine Painters of Marseille | Smith, Philip Chadwick Foster | Peabody Museum of Salem | 0-87577-055-X | art France Roux |
| Arthur Briscoe Marine Artist | Hurst, Alex A | Teredo Books | 0-903662-01-9 | marine water colours oils etchings drypoint biography model bowsprit rigging fishing oyster dredging |
| Arthur Ransome | Wardale, Roger | Great Northern Books | 0-9535035-4-2 | Swallows and Amazons |
| Articles of War | Rodger, N A M | Kenneth Mason | 0-85937-275-8 | Charles George Victoria Navy penalty punishment prison |
| Artist Who Loved Boats [The] | Cross, Tom | Halsgrove | 978-1-84114-543-3 | art Cornwall Helford Brixham Speedwell Loch Torridon Clyde Chance lugsail tunnyman Thurburn |
| Artists of the China Coast | Gregory, Martyn | Martyn Gregory | catalogue guide China art East India Company junk | |
| Arts Decoratifs a Bord des Paquebots Francais 1880-1960 | Vian, Louis-Rene | Editions Fonmare | 2-950-7-263-0-5 | liner section plan art sculpture mosaic tapestry furnishing Normandie France Lafayette Colombie Ile de France L’Atlantique |
| Arun Lifeboats an Illustrated History 1971-2009 | Leach, Nicholas | Kelsey Publishing | 978-1-907426-21-6 | Falmouth P58-9 Humber Cornwall Elizabeth Ann |
| Arung Samudera 95: Sail Indonesia & International Fleet Review | Arung Samudera | PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama | 979-605-355-0 | yacht racing square rig fore and aft |
| A-Sailing West | West, Arthur | Arthur West/Wordfactory | autobiography Falmouth oyster Cornwall RNLI Toby West | |
| Ashburner Schooners [The] | Latham, Tim | Ready Rhino | 0-9516792-0-1 | shipbuilding schooner Barrow Dee shipowner |
| Ashley Book of Knots | Ashley, Clifford W | Faber | 0-571-09659-X | rope splicing blackjacks buttons monkey’s fist lanyards turkshead deadeyes thimbles |
| Ashore and Afloat | Ashore and Afloat | S W Partridge | Royal Navy Portsmouth Times weekly paper articles advertisements | |
| Asiatic Steam Navigation Co Ltd 1878-1963 | Laxon, W A | World Ship Society | company Asiatic steam | |
| Aspects of British Marine Painting March-April 1963 | Aspects of British Marine Painting | Rutand Gallery | Lion Princess Royal Three Sisters Men of War Mail Packet Algiers | |
| Assault and Logistics Vol 2 | Gibson, Charles Dana | Ensign Press | 0-9608996-3-4 | Atlantic Gulf Texas Hatteras Carolina Pasquotank Chesapeake canal |
| Assault from the Sea 1939-45 | Ladd, James D | David & Charles | 0-7153-6937-7 | Germany Japan carrier survey amphibians salvage repair France USN Commandos rocketNormandy Iwo Jima |
| Assault Landing Craft | Lavery, Brian | Seaforth Publishing | 978-1-84832-050-5 | army WW2 LCA layout building creew tactics lines Harris Lebus dazzle |
| Astern Business | Parker, George H | World Ship Society | 0-905617-80-0 | shipbuilding WW2 World War Two nationalisation |
| Astillero de San Martin [El] | Echegaray, Rafael Gonzalez | Santander | 84-300-1302-4 | Spain list construction Sotileza Gijon Camprodon Santa Marina navy Svagen WW1 submarine |
| Astilleros de Sevilla INI | Astilleros | shipyard shipbuilder Empresa Nacional Elcano port equipment | ||
| Astragalus of Tin [The] | James, Henry | Edward Stanford | Cornwall Falmouth tin dredging | |
| Astro Navigation Handbook | Bartlett, Tim | RYA | 978-1-906435-09-7 | sextant celestial sphere noon sight morning afternoon sun sights planets stars Polaris Moon tables time |
| Astro Navigation Made Easy | Meyrier, Francois | Adlard Coles Nautical | 0-7163-62220 | astro navigation sextant spherical coordinates trigonometry meridian calculation formats sta positions |
| Astro-navigation by Calculator | Levison, Henry | David & Charles | 0-7153-8553-4 | navigation astro |
| Astronomical Diagrams | Astronomical Diagrams | James Reynolds and Sons | Solar system sun eclipse planet earth rotation atmosphere moon comet seasons meteorology latitude longitude | |
| At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy | Bulkley, Robert J | Naval History Division, Washington | PT boats Pearl Harbour Philippines Solomons Campaign New Guinea Aleutians South West Pacific D-Dayt | |
| At Home in Deep Waters | Fraser, Bruce | Newnes | radio rigging admiralty anchor astro buoyancy compass engine | |
| At One with the Sea | James, Naomi | Hutchinson/Stanley Paul | 0-09-136860-X | yacht cruising solo Cape Horn Atlantic seamanship |
| At Scotlands Edge | Allardyce, Keith | William Collins | 0-00-435660-8 | lights buoys beacons Southerness May Cumbrae Clyde Dempster Fraserburgh Sanday Orkney Kintyre |
| At Sea and Onshore | Cove, Mary | Ballinger Press | 978-1-5272-9099-0 | British Isles shipbuilding history Royal Navy fishing ports |
| At Sea on Land | James, Naomi | Hutchinson/Stanley Paul | 0-09-144630-9 | yacht racing solo |
| At Sea With Joseph Conrad | Sutherland, J G | Grant Richards Ltd | North Sea voyage Ready WW1 U-boat RNR Scotland Granton Bridlinton trawler airship brigantine | |
| At the Mercy of the Sea | Clayton, Lisa | Orion | 0-75280-208-9 | yacht solo cruising circumnavigation log women |
| At the Port of Bristol Vol 1: Members and Problems 1848-1899 | Neale, W G | Port of Bristol Authority | port Bristol | |
| At the Port of Bristol Vol 2: The Turn of the Tide: 1900-1914 | Neale, W G | Port of Bristol Authority | port Bristol | |
| At the Sign of the Flying Angel | Gollock, G A | Longmans Green | Mission to Seamen London Rotterdam India Australia South America | |
| At the Tiller | Rutherford, Iain W | Blackie | sailing Cowes Ireland Scotland Oslo navy weather IoW | |
| At the Wheel Ashore and Afloat | Grahame-White, Montague | G T Foulis | yacht biography motor cruiser | |
| At War with the Smugglers | Arnold-Forster, D | Ward, Lock | smuggling custom cutter law Isle of Wight French Revolution | |
| Athel Line | Solly, Ray | History Press | 978-0-7524-4827-5 | company Athel list lines deckplan WW2 Anco shipowner Sugar |
| Athenian Trireme [The] | Morrison, J S | Cambridge University Press | 0-521-31100-4 | trireme Greece navigation navy construction archaeology |
| Atherstone: Instructions for the Running and Maintenance of Hitachi B and W Marine Diesel Engines | Atherstone Instructions | Hitachi | engineering diesel maintenance manual Atherstone Burmeister and Wain Hitachi | |
| Atlantic [The] | Butel, Paul | Routledge | 0-415-10690-7 | slaves Cuba exploration seafaring railway passengers Irish Viking Iberia Dutch Liverpool |
| Atlantic [The] | Rogers, Stanley | George G Harrap | Atlantic Colombus history packet weather pirate mutiny | |
| Atlantic Adventurer | Grant, Alison | Grant | 0-9527885-0-0 | Atlantic biography exploration Barnstaple |
| Atlantic Adventurers | Barton, Humphrey | Adlard Coles | Atlantic crossing small craft | |
| Atlantic Battle | Knox, Collie | Methuen & Co | convoy submarine U-boat | |
| Atlantic Battle Won 1943-1945 [The] Vol 10 | Morison, Samuel Eliot | Little, Brown and Co | Tenth Fleet antisubmarine aircraft destroyer escort submarine U-boats transatlantic convoy Ushant Finisterre Azores Caribbean Arctic snorkels Churchill Doenitz Ingersoll Isbell King Luftwaffe RAF |