Sextant, First Edition (36 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Wraparound Painted Cover! (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher,. 252 pages. "In 1941 the Motor Vessel Highlander was torpedoed off the coast of Scotland. She sank immediately, taking with the crew, Captain Hershell and his inscribed sextant. Or did she? In 1981 the poice nitify the Captain's son that the sextant has turned up - in perfect condition. It had never been to that watery grave. John Hershell sets off to find the truth - and discovers it in an isolated village, a place of dark fear and deceit, a place with a guilty, evil secret." >>> minor Store stamp at Top of front endpage; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. first edition/third printing book is tight with no markings, previous owners name on first page, light soiling to page edges, wraps have some rubbing and edges have curling/creasing.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine -. First Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Provides a full range of proven, practical techniques of piloting -- the art of navigating within sight of land. Designed to help the sailor navigate the most difficult straits with confidence. Shows how to meet challenges that sailing offers, without expensive gadgets or complicated math. 214 pages including index. Fold-out example map. Charts. Diagrams. Price clipped. Really terrific copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Published by Azimuth Press, Inc., 1986. Clean bright pages with black and white photographs and illustrations. Blue cloth-covered boards; white titles on spine. Very nice copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. vi, 214 (4) pp, illus. First Edition, 1977. Price clipped. Lightly foxed white background of rear panel dj, and gutter ffep, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 7.25" x 10.25". Aqua-blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dj in acetate protector. Size: Small Quarto. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. pgs.151 with index EX-LIB with all library markings soiling to top edge, freckles to outer edge d/j wrapped in mylar shelfwear to board extremities.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the spirit of early Bowditch editions, we offer navigation details of a full ocean passage as an excellent way to learn the ropes of practical celestial navigation. With your own tables and plotting sheets, you can analyze 224 timed sextant sights of sun, moon, stars, and planets to obtain 26 position fi xes to fi nd your way along a 2,800-nmi voyage lasting 17 days. Solutions are provided by computation, workforms, and detailed plots using universal plotting sheets. After completing this passage you will be prepared to navigate by celestial navigation on your own, whether you need to or choose to. Also includes notes on optimizing sight analysis, hurricane tracking, DR error analysis, ocean currents, and use of visible light ranges for nighttime arrivals. In the spirit of early Bowditch editions, we offer navigation details of a full ocean passage as an excellent way to learn the ropes of practical celestial navigation. With your own tables and plotting sheets, you can analyze 224 timed sextant sights of sun, moon, stars, and planets to obtain 26 position fi xes to fi nd your way along a 2,800-nmi voyage lasting 17 days. Solutions are provided by computation, workforms, and detailed plots using universal plotting sheets. After completing this passage you will be prepared to navigate by celestial navigation on your own, whether you need to or choose to. Also includes notes on optimizing sight analysis, hurricane tracking, DR error analysis, ocean currents, and use of visible light ranges for nighttime arrivals. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The catalogue of an exhibit held at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris from April 15th to June 1st, 1981. The artists represented are Lennart Rodhe, Torsten Andersson, Ake Karlung, Kjell Ohlin, Petter Zennstrom and Goran Hagg. The catalogue scrimps a bit on the color, but even in black and white the work of these artists is strikingly dramatic. The book has been withdrawn from the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art; the only signs of this are two tiny stampings of the name. The covers are a little bit shelfworn; the interior is pristine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pictorial endpapers, no inscriptions and unclipped DJ. Minor use onlt with pages clean and tight. 348pp. incl glossy colour plates.

Hardcover, illus. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition; First Printing. Book and DJ New. NO notes or ANY MARKINGS. ; A mint copy. ; 191 pages.

Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Bauer, Nancy McCoy (illustrator). First Edition. Tall octavo with navy blue boards and white printing on the spine. First edition in very good plus condition with one shallow scratch/dent on the front cover and lightly touched bottom front corner. The dust jacket has a scratch reflected by the cover dent, otherwise fine. A very readable detailed technical manual with a wealth of information about the sextant. A valuable mariner's resource. 189 pp., Technical, Navigation, Marine, Nautical, Boating, Education, Sextants, Nonfiction, Instruction, Hobbies, Sports. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book condition is near fine. Hard cover. 1st edition. Text body clean except ex-owner inscribed note on the back front Book board cross out the black texture. Spine intact. Book block clean. Book boards clean front and back. Overall an excellent and neat copy. See photo for synopsis.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Bauer, Nancy McCoy (illustrator). 1st Edition. Tall octavo hardcover in fine, as new condition in a fine, as new dust jacket. Navy blue cloth stamped in white on the spine. An indispensable guide for sailing, on how to use, adjust and repair many different types of sextants, new and old. Includes chapters on history of sextants, and appendixes on manufacturers and dealers of sextants, check procedures, a navigator's basic tool kit, making and using an artificial horizon, and a table of interstellar angles for practice sighting and testing. 191 pp. Navigation, Sailing, Sextants.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Pp. x, 205.

Hardcover. First edition. Extremities slightly worn; endpapers partially browned; hinges beginning to crack but still firm; page margins faintly foxed; otherwise very good condition. . 63p. Illus.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition 1986, first printing, matching copyright and publishing dates. Published by Azimuth Press. Hardcover with DJ. Condition new, square tight and crisp book, no edgewear, sharp corners, no markings of any kind, no names. no underlinings. no highlights, no bent pages, not a reminder. DJ new, bright and shiny, no tears, no chips, no edgewear, , no shelfwear, price not clipped. 8vo, 191 pages.

1st printing of the 2015 paperback edition (original of 2014). XX, 348 PP with 5 maps (4 on double page) and 9 figures (1 on double page), plus 16 pages with 23 b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 19.6 x 12.8.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 205pp incl several in-text photographs. Blue cloth-covered boards with gold lettering to spine. Both book and jacket in very good condition. Hugh Schmitt's account of the record-breaking triple circumnavigation, non-stop and alone, by Jon Sanders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publication of 252 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

1st Ed. X, 205 PP with 22 b/w photos & 2 maps. Gilt-engraved hard cover, dj. Top edge of cloth covers is speckled. Dedicatory note at top of FFEP. Otherwise a very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.8. John Sanders circumnavigated the world three times, without stopping, for 651 days, covering 71,000 nautical miles.

Hardcover in dustjacket. Condition: FINE! BOATS SAILING YACHTS -Hugh Schmitt's account of the record-breaking triple circumnavigation, non-stop and alone, by Jon Sanders. 205 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Sanders, Jon -- Journeys Voyages around the world #0818R/0918/0119/0419/1119D/161223/161224/270625/230126 First Edition(prev ownership stamp on fep) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in near fine (very light shelf wear) dust jacket (in mylar). 189 pps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good - some wear, rubbing to the covers and spine.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 63. Original publisher's illustrated blue cloth, lettered black on the front cover. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Some rubbing at spine ends, otherwise very good. Decent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., 1983. 8vo, 226 p., original green cloth stamped in gilt. First edition (stated) of this history of the sextant from its origins in ancient seafaring angle measuring instruments. Book slightly cocked; tape ghost to lower fep; else a clean VG+ copy in a VG jacket with tape ghost to lower rear jacket panel; chips to top edge of rear panel, but a sound clean copy overall.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG-. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo. original blue cloth (a little rubbed, some sunning and flecking, inscrip. to FFE, some light spotting/toning to endpapers, else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. [x (last blank)], 64 (last colophon) with illustrations. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Rare. Navy cloth cover has light wear to corners and spine caps and bumped corners but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Gift inscription on front end sheet. Pages are clean and very good. Dust jacket is worn with an abrasion to front panel, toning and light soiling, and tears repaired on the underside of the DJ with transparent acid-free paper mending tape. DJ flap is price clipped. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ) .; 6 pages.

Condition: Sehr gut. 2. Auflage. 96 S. Gebrauchtes Exemplar in sehr gutem Zustand. KEINE Eintragungen/Markierungen. "Für Generationen von Seeleuten und Fliegern war der Sextant das wichtigste Navigationsinstrument. Er gestattet eine Positionsbestimmung mit guter Genauigkeit. Aber erst die Kombination von Sextant und Chronometer ermöglicht eine sichere Navigation über die Weltmeere. Elektronische Navigationssysteme sind genauer und einfacher zu handhaben - aber leider technisch anfällig und in Zeiten weltpolitischer Krisen nicht unbedingt zuverlässig. Deshalb sollte jeder Navigator in der Lage sein, den Sextanten zu benutzen und aus den gewonnenen Werten seine Schlüsse zu ziehen. Dieses Buch beschreibt, wie der Sextant funktioniert, liefert praktische Hinweise zum Gebrauch, erklärt, wie das Instrument abgelesen wird und wie eine Höhe oder ein Winkel "geschossen" wird. Ferner beschreibt es, wie er justiert wird und wie Fehler beseitigt werden können. Schließlich gibt es noch Tipps zur Pflege des Gerätes. Für alle, die sich bei der Navigation nicht nur aufs "Knöpfchendrücken" beschränken, bietet dieses Buch eine verständliche und praxisgerechte Einführung in eine Methode der Navigation, die sich seit Jahrhunderten bewährt hat und auch heute noch längst nicht überholt ist. ". - Wir versenden aus unserem deutschen Lager heraus in plastikfreien oder wiederverwendeten Polstertaschen. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 240 Taschenbuch, Maße: 14.8 cm x 0.6 cm x 21 cm.

Condition: Sehr gut. 3. Auflage 2010. 93 S. Gebrauchtes Exemplar in sehr gutem Zustand. KEINE Eintragungen/Markierungen. "Für Generationen von Seeleuten und Fliegern war der Sextant das wichtigste Navigationsinstrument. Er gestattet eine Positionsbestimmung mit guter Genauigkeit. Aber erst die Kombination von Sextant und Chronometer ermöglicht eine sichere Navigation über die Weltmeere. Elektronische Navigationssysteme sind genauer und einfacher zu handhaben - aber leider technisch anfällig und in Zeiten weltpolitischer Krisen nicht unbedingt zuverlässig. Deshalb sollte jeder Navigator in der Lage sein, den Sextanten zu benutzen und aus den gewonnenen Werten seine Schlüsse zu ziehen. Dieses Buch beschreibt, wie der Sextant funktioniert, liefert praktische Hinweise zum Gebrauch, erklärt, wie das Instrument abgelesen wird und wie eine Höhe oder ein Winkel "geschossen" wird. Ferner beschreibt es, wie er justiert wird und wie Fehler beseitigt werden können. Schließlich gibt es noch Tipps zur Pflege des Gerätes. Für alle, die sich bei der Navigation nicht nur aufs "Knöpfchendrücken" beschränken, bietet dieses Buch eine verständliche und praxisgerechte Einführung in eine Methode der Navigation, die sich seit Jahrhunderten bewährt hat und auch heute noch längst nicht überholt ist. ". - Wir versenden aus unserem deutschen Lager heraus in plastikfreien oder wiederverwendeten Polstertaschen. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 240 Taschenbuch, Maße: 14.8 cm x 0.6 cm x 21 cm.