The Mariner's Compass Rectified Containing Tables, Shewing the true Hour of the Day, the Sun being upon any Point of the Compass : With the true Time of the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Stars, and the Points of the Compass upon which they rise and set : With Tables of Amplitudes and Declination. Which Tables of Sun-Dials, Semidiurnal Arches and Amplitudes are calculated from the Equater to 60 Degrees of Latitude, either North or South. With A Description of the most useful Instruments in Practice in the Art of Navigation. Also a Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places.
Published by Printed for Mount and Page 1787, London, 1787
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Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United KingdomFoster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA
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Condition: Used - Very good
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272 pp. Contemporary sheep binding with slightly raised bands and ink handwritten title label to spine. Damage to lower board and around head of spine, with splitting along joints, though not at hinges. Bookplate of Charles Hewit Esq., Captain in the Royal Navy. Ink name of 'Aldridge' also to endpaper. Volvelle intact and internally clean. 'By Andrew Wakely, mathematician. Enlarged with many useful Additions, by J. Atkinson, the Whole Revised, corrected, improved and enlarged with new tables and examples, by John Adams, Teacher of the Mathematics, and Author of the Young Sea Officer's Assistant.' Printed date of 1787 has been annotated in pencil to 1781. 18cms tall. Small 8vo.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Mariner's Compass Rectified Containing Tables, Shewing the true Hour of the Day, the Sun being upon any Point of the Compass : With the true Time of the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Stars, and the Points of the Compass upon which they rise and set : With Tables of Amplitudes and Declination. Which Tables of Sun-Dials, Semidiurnal Arches and Amplitudes are calculated from the Equater to 60 Degrees of Latitude, either North or South. With A Description of the most useful Instruments in Practice in the Art of Navigation. Also a Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places.
- Author
- Wakely, Andrew
- Publisher
- Printed for Mount and Page 1787, London
- Publication year
- 1787
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Full Sheep
- Dimensions
- Small 8vo.
- Seller catalogs
- Naval and Maritime, Science and Medicine
Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA
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