A New and Complete Epitome of Practical Navigation Containing All Necessary Instruction for Keeping A Ship's Reckoning At Sea With the Most Approved Methods of Ascertaining The Latitude, By Meridian, Single, or Double Altitudes and The Longitude, By Lunar Observations, Or Time-Keepers; Including A Journal of A Voyage From London to Madeira, and Every Other Particular Requisite to Form The Complete Navigator; The Whole Being Rendered Perfectly Easy, and Illustrated by Several Engravings. To Which is Added, A New and Correct Set of Tables, More extensive than any hitherto published in a Work of the same Kind, and preceded by a copious Explanation of each Table

Norie, J. W.

Published by Printed for the Author, And Sold by J. W. Norie and Co, London, 1828

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Octavo. xii, xl "Explanation and Use of the Tables [and] "Arrangement of the Tables." 275 pages, [1] page advertisement. Frontispiece. Dark brown calf leather binding with chipped title label on the spine. Illustrated with 9 plates (plate 8 is the frontispiece). Front board is detached. Right front flyleaf removed. Presentation inscription written on the blank front side of the frontispiece - "Presented to John D. Butt (sp.?)by William O Hale July 9th 1841." John D. Butt Book written on the front paste down. Light toning to the contents.

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• Title: A New and Complete Epitome of Practical Navigation Containing All Necessary Instruction for Keeping A Ship's Reckoning At Sea With the Most Approved Methods of Ascertaining The Latitude, By Meridian, Single, or Double Altitudes and The Longitude, By Lunar Observations, Or Time-Keepers; Including A Journal of A Voyage From London to Madeira, and Every Other Particular Requisite to Form The Complete Navigator; The Whole Being Rendered Perfectly Easy, and Illustrated by Several Engravings. To ...
• Publisher: Printed for the Author, And Sold by J. W. Norie and Co, London
• Publication Date: 1828
• Binding: Full calf
• Edition: Ninth (Stereotype) Edition.
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nautical
  • Transportation
  • Exploration & Travel