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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol Channel Shipping Remembered | Collard, Chris | Tempus | 0-7524-2388-6 | Bristol dock dredger tug pilot lighthouse paddlesteamer |
| Bristol Channel Shipping the Twilight Years | Collard, Chris | Tempus | 0-7524-1740-1 | pilot tug dock paddlesteamer Wales Newport Cardiff Penarth Barry Trinity Avonmouth |
| Bristol City Docks | Benbrook, Ivan | Redcliffe Press | 0-949265-68 X | Yards wharves Cumberland basin bridges Clifton Suspension St Augustine’s reach Hotwell spa SS Great Britain streets squares Cabot the Mathew |
| Bristol City Docks The Final Years of Commercial Shipping | Bristol City | Jocast Limited Liverpool | 0-9507480-1-3 | Vives Margit Bristollian Pluto Rutha Dan Farringay Deveron Kingroad Lydia Karen Anglo Irene Lingestroom Milo Pacific Coast Singularity |
| Bristol City Docks Through Time | Lewis, Brian | Amberley Publishing | 978-1-84868-384-6 | Avon SS Great Britain bridges wharfs docks |
| Bristol Maritime City | Shipsides, Frank | Redcliffe Press | 0-905459-37-7 | Brunel trade history exploration slave trade shipbuildng WW1 WW2 |
| Bristol Pilots [The] | Rich, John | Atlantis 33 | 0-9528082-0-X | pilot Bristol |
| Bristol Port and Channel Nostalgia | Cranfield, Malcolm | Bernard McCall | 978-1-902953-61-8 | Bristol Channel |
| Bristol Privateers and Ships of War | Powell, J W Damer | J W Arrowsmith | privateer Bristol Napoleonic | |
| Bristol Seaport | Momber, Colin | Redcliffe | 1-900178-70-2 | Avonmouth Portishead Royal Edward Dock Portbury Bristol Port Company trade shipbuilding |
| Bristol Tugs in Colour Vol 1 | McCall, Bernard | Bernard McCall | 978-1-902953-70-0 | Bristol tug King Cory Avon |
| Bristol Tugs in Colour Vol 2 | McCall, Bernard | Bernard McCall | 978-1-902953-77-9 | tugs Bristol Mayflower Great Britain |
| Bristols Floating Harbour the First 200 Years | Malpass, Peter | Redcliffe Press | 978-1-906593-28-5 | Cumberland Basin docks wharf history Brunel Avon Canon’s Marsh Calcraft Totterdown |
| Bristows Book of Motor Cruisers 1972-1973 | Bristows | Yachting and Boating Weekly | SBN 7207-0544-4 | motor cruiser shipbuilder designer engine yacht mooring construction dimensions tender |
| Bristows Book of Motor Cruisers 73 | Bristows | Yachting and Boating Weekly | ||
| Bristows Book of Motor Cruisers 74 | Bristows | Stanford Maritime London | ||
| Bristows Book of Sailing Cruisers 1972-1973 | Bristows | Yachting and Boating Weekly | SBN 7207-0543-6 | sail cruiser shipbuilder designer broker insurance mooring tender construction dimensions |
| Bristows Book of Sailing Cruisers 73 | Bristows | Yachting and Boating Weekly | ||
| Bristows Book of Sailing Cruisers 74 | Bristows | Stanford Maritime London | ||
| Bristows Book of Yachts | Bristows | Hamble Publishing | 1-871780-00-4 | yacht dinghy construction shipbuilder designer cruiser engine catamaran |
| Bristows Book of Yachts | Bristows | |||
| Bristows Book of Yachts 1968 | Bristows | Navigator Publishing Limited | ||
| Bristows Book of Yachts 1969 | Bristows | Navigator Publishing | yacht motor dinghy navigation engine sail sloop shipbuilder racer cruiser | |
| Bristows Book of Yachts 1982 | Bristows | Navigator Publishing | 0-90-283005-8 | yacht sail power shipbuilder trader trawler sloop construction dimensions cruiser |
| Bristows Book of Yachts 1988 | Bristows | Navigator Publishing Limited | ||
| Bristows Book of Yachts and Charter 1983 | Bristows | Navigator Publishing Limited | ||
| Bristows Book of Yachts and Charter 1984 | Bristows | Navigator Publishing | 0-902830-08-2 | yacht dinghy sail motor engine electronic sail power instruments charter |
| Bristows Book of Yachts and Dinghies 1967 | Bristows | Navigator Publishing | yacht dinghy construction dimensions shipbuilder designer sloop engine | |
| Bristows Book of Yachts and Motor Cruisers 1971 | Bristows | Yachting and Boating Weekly | yacht motor cruiser shipbuilder ship designer sail motor engine construction dimensions sloop clipper | |
| Bristows Book of Yachts and Motor Cruisers 70 | Bristows | Yachting and Boating Weekly | ||
| Bristows Sailing and Motor Cruisers 1979/1980 | Bristows | Weald of Kent Publications | ||
| Britain an Aerial View | Britain an Aerial View | Coombe Books | 0-86283-849-5 | Devon Bath Lyndhurst London Norwich Wales Lincoln York Edinburgh |
| Britain and the Sea | Britain and the Sea | Royal Navy/St James’s House | commando RaleighHMS BT Rolls-Royce NAAFI hydrographic Denholme Weir Bibby IoM IoS WWF SeaFrance | |
| Britain at Bay | Glover, Richard | George Allen and Unwin Ltd | 0-04-940043-6 | Napoleon RN Martello Towers Napoleonic War |
| Britain at War Royal Navy [The] | Britain at War | Hutchinson & Co | Aegean Adriatic Walcheren Scheldt convoy Russia Atlantic Norway Germany | |
| Britain at War Royal Navy [The] | Britain at War | Hutchinson | Sicily Syracuse Messina Biscay Salerno Anzio D-day mines Normandy e-boat FAA Fleet Air Arm | |
| Britain at War Royal Navy [The] | Britain at War | Hutchinson | U-boat Norway security Graf Spee Uraguay Australia Faroes Dunkirk | |
| Britain at War Royal Navy [The] | Britain at War | Hutchinson | Mediterranean Genoa Tripoli Japan Indo-China Scharnhorst Italy Lisbon | |
| Britain at War Royal Navy [The] | Britain at War | Hutchinson | U-boat Malta Atlantic Japan Pacific frigates blockade Cunningham Doentiz | |
| Britains Canal and River Craft | Paget-Tomlinson, E | Moorland | 0-903485-90-7 | canal tug flat Mersey keel trow |
| Britains Coastlines From the Air | Struthers, Jane | Ebury Press | 0-09-180833-2 | lighthouses lifeboats Scotland bridges Forth Tyne Orkney Cornwall |
| Britains Convicts to the Colonies | Oldham, Wilfrid | Library of Australian History | 0-908120-77-X | convict colony New South Wales transportation America hulk prison |
| Britains First Lifeboat Station | Yorke, Barbara | Alt Press | 0-9508-155-0-0 | Lancashire Mersey Liverpool RNLI lighthouse Hutchinson rescue dock |
| Britains Glorious Navy | Britains Glorious Navy | Odhams Press Ltd | marines WRNS construction FAA Fleet Air Arm submarine gunnery mines minesweeping tactics merchant amphibious | |
| Britains Historic Coast | Gale, Alison | Tempus | 0-7524-1456-9 | maritime defence leisure work building lifesaving ports harbours shipbuilding |
| Britains Historic Ships | Brown, Paul | Conway | 978-1-8448-6409-6 | Royal Navy RN WW2 sail steam harbour |
| Britains Life Boats | Dawson, A J | Hodder and Stoughton | lifeboat rescue RNLI Cornwall | |
| Britains Maritime Heritage | Heal, Veryan | Conway Maritime | 0-85177-474-1 | museum guide |
| Britains Maritime Heritage | Simper, Robert | David & Charles | 0-7153-8177-6 | navy ironclad keel barge coble smack herring tanker oyster |
| Britains Maritime Memorials and Mementoes | Saunders, David | Patrick Stephens | 1-85260-466-2 | museum medal list directory guide packet memorial Cornwall |