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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whalers [The] | Whipple, A B C | Time-Life | 7054-0627-X | history whaling Yankee New England |
| Whalers and Whaling | Chatterton, E Keble | T Fisher Unwin | whaling seal US Antarctic Greenland Netherlands Wanderer | |
| Whalers Eye | Ash, Christopher | George Allen & Unwin | whaling factory tanker Antarctic sociology wildlife | |
| Whalers No More | Hagelund, W A | Harbour Publishing | 0-920080-02-2 | whaling Canada Vancouver Alaska |
| Whalers of Tangalooma [The] | Jones, David | Nautical Association of Australia | 0-9599079-1-2 | whaling Australia statistics Pacific Tangalooma |
| Whalers of the Midnight Sun | Villiers, Alan | Geoffrey Bles | whaling Hobart Antarctic Pacific | |
| Whales | Martin, Anthony | Crescent Books | 0-517-05149-4 | junior |
| Whales and Whaling | Budker, Paul | whaling Atlantic France Azores harpoon factory Antarctic | ||
| Whales and Whaling | Credland, Arthur G | Shire | 0-85263-597-4 | whaling Arctic Greenland Spitzbergen Hull Whitby Scotland |
| Whales Dolphins and Porpoises | Whales Dolphins | Merehurst Press | 1-85391-034-1 | ecology evolution species behaviour art literature fiction |
| Whales of Anglesey [The] | Owen, Alun | Gwynedd Archives Service | 0-901337-33-1 | whaling Anglesey |
| Whales Sails and Scrimshaw | Matheu, Martha F | Young Scott Books | 0-201-09390-0 | whaling voyages ships sailmaker cooper blacksmith fishing tools seaports onboard food accommodation whalemeat process conservation laws |
| Whales Tale [The] | Schmitt, Frederick P | Picton | 0-902633-27-9 | whaling stamp factory harpoon US art Falklands |
| Whales, Dolphins and Man | Nayman, Jaqueline | Hamlyn | 0-600-39274-0 | hunting whaling migration porpoise pelagic cetacean |
| Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises | Lockley, Ronald M | David & Charles | 0-7153-7731-0 | whaling |
| Whales, Ice and Men | Bockstoce, John R | University of Washington Press | 0-29596318-2 | whaling arctic America |
| Whaley the Story of HMS Excellent 1830 to 1980 | Wells, John G | HMSO | navy ordnance cannon ExcellentHMS | |
| Whaling | Hawes, Charles Boardman | Heinemann | whaling | |
| Whaling and Old Salem | Robotti, Frances Diane | Newcomb and Gauss | whaling Salem oillamp journal barrel NewBedford | |
| Whaling Around Australia | Colwell, Max | Angus & Robertson (UK) | 207-95246-9 | whaling Australia trade New Zealand |
| Whaling Masters No 8 | Whaling Masters | Borgo/Sidewinder Press | 0-270-5338 | whaling directory officer US chronology list |
| Whaling Off Tahiti | Dodge, Ernest S | Societe des Oceanistes | whaling Tahiti France scrimshaw Pacific art | |
| Whaling Prints in the Francis B Lothrop Collection | Ingalls, Elizabeth | Peabody Museum | whaling art catalogue | |
| Whaling Ways of Hobart Town | Philp, J E | J Walch & Sons Pty Ltd | Tasmania sail sperm whale Derwent Hunter Albion cooperage oil Runnymede | |
| Whampoa: Ships on the Shore | Coates, Austin | South China Morning Post | Docks history opium war Nanking Treaty Convention of Peking shipping companies trade David Gillies sailing ships racing trade WW2 | |
| Wharram Design Book [The] | Wharram, James | multihull catamaran design yachting Polynesian shipbuilder ocean coastal classic Pahi Tiki Trek | ||
| What happened on the Bounty | Danielsson, Bengt | Allen & Unwin | Bounty Bligh mutiny Tahiti | |
| What If? | What If? | Putnams | 0-333-75183-3 | Jerusalem Salamis Alexander Mongols Cortes Washington Napoleon Confederate WW1 Hitler WW2 |
| What is the Meaning of the letters and Numbers on Fishing Boats? | Lenton, Stewart | Channel View Publishing | 978-0-9554023-3-3 | register fishing boat port |
| What Our Transports Did in the Crimea | What Our Transports | Edward Stanford | ||
| What Price Cod A Tugmasters View of the Cod Wars | Storey, Norman | Hutton Press | 1-872167-44-6 | fishing trawling trawlers cod wars Iceland RN tugs Statesman Lloydsman Euroman Englishman Irishman Odinn Seydisfjord |
| What Shape is She in? | Vaitses, Allan H | International Marine Publishing | 0-87742-192-7 | survey |
| What Ship is That | What Ship is That | Sampson Low Marston | merchant flag warship naval battleship yacht | |
| What Would Nelson Do? | Swaffer, Hannen | Victor Gollanz | Navy RN living conditions | |
| Wheal of Hope [The] | Crowden, James | Agre | 622.34094237 | South Crofty mining tin copper Cornwall poetry photography memorial |
| Wheeling Stars [The] | King, Bill | Faber & Faber | 0-571-15396-8 | yacht cruising solo rudder junk shipwreck astro |
| Wheels and Paddles in the Sudan 1923-1946 | Williams, C R | Pentland Press | 0-946270-24-4 | Egypt Middle East Makwar dam Sudan railways Abyssinia Nuer Annuak felucca Bahr-el-Ghazal Dinka |
| Wheels Kick and the Winds Song [The] | Course, A G | Percival Marshall | company Stewart | |
| Wheels Still Turn [The] | Plowman, Peter | Kangaroo Press | 0-86147-428-4 | Fishing cruising houseboats cargo towboats mission boats steam engines |
| Wheels Went Around [The] | Thomas, Janet | Dyllansow Truran | 1-85022-026-3 | Cornwall mining disease accident migration education |
| Wheezers and Dodgers [The] | Pawle, Gerald | George Harrop & Sons | 978-1-84832-026-0 | WW2 weapons hedgehog swiss roll Lochner Lily panjandrum Byng Churchill rocket gun |
| When Britannia Ruled the Waves | Kitson, Frank | Halsgrove | 978-1-84114-597-6 | art navy Jutland MTB India battleship trawler training paddle-steamer |
| When Dinghies Delight | Steavenson, Robin | |||
| When I Put Out to Sea | Walker, Nicolette Milnes | Collins | 0-00-211937-4 | yacht cruising Atlantic solo victualing deckplan |
| When Luxury went to Sea | Phillips-Birt, Douglas | David and Charles | 0-7153-5339-X | passenger liner cruising |
| When Miners Sang | McKinney, Gage | Comstock Bonanza Press | 0-933994-28-1 | Cornish Cornwall heritage choirs carols origins America miners migration industrial age WW2 Wesley Methodists accompanists |
| When Ships Go Down | Masters, David | Eyre & Spottiswoode | salvage insurance shipwreck Lloyds diving submarine rocket | |
| When the Crew Matter Most | Bruce, Erroll | Stanley Paul | yacht racing Atlantic Bermuda weather sails | |
| When the Water Becomes Still | Bailey, Maurice | Pentheous | 1-897-887-59-0 | yachting adventure exploration wreck rescue survival |
| Where did you Leave the Admiral? | Purves, Libby | Stanford Maritime London | 0-540-07419-5 | yachting humour cartoon |