The New Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation: to Which are Added, And All the Tables Requisite for Determining Latitude and Longitude at Sea. Containing Different Kinds of Sailing, and Necessary Corrections for Lee-Way, Variation, & c. Exemplified in a Journal at Sea

xvi, 336, (215) pp. Octavo. Nineteenth edition, enlarged and illustrated with copper plates. Rebound in brown paper boards. Gilt lettering and lines in a black label on the spine. Trimmed edges. Edges somewhat dust soiled. New endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on the front free end paper. Printed on mould made paper. Features an engraved portrait of John Hamilton Moore as a frontispiece. Illustrated with copper-engraved plates, tables, illustrations and diagrams throughout, including two fold out Planispheres at the rear. Probably the most famous English navigational text of the time period, in the late eighteen hundreds Moore's 'The Practical Navigator' was the text you would have consulted if you were planning a maritime voyage. This is the nineteenth edition, enlarged and expanded by Joseph Dessiou. This volume is from the library of Lieutenant Commander Andrew David of the Royal Navy. It has David's bookplate on the front free endpaper.