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INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO THE DUKE OF CLARENCE WHICH WOULD THEN BECOME KING WILLIAM IV. The Complete Navigator: Or, An Easy and Familiar Guide to the Theory and Practice of Navigation, With All the Requisite Tables &c. &c. Illustrated with Engravings. By Andrew Mackay, LL.D., F.R.S. Ed. &c. Author of the Theory and Practice at Sea or Land, &c. London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees; W. J. And J. Richardson; and A. Constable and Co., 1804, 1st Edition. 268 p, 40 p, 220 p. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO THE DUKE OF CLARENCE WHICH WOULD THEN BECOME KING WILLIAM IV. Fine contemporary binding measures 8.5 x 5\u0094, 8vo. In good condition. Boards normally scuffed at edges and corners. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Edges of text-block hand-marbled. End-papers fresh. Ownership bookplate on bottom edge of front paste-down: \u0093Erwin Tomash\u0094. Author\u0092s inscription found on original front fly-leaf (verso): \u0093To His Royal Highness - The Duke of Clarence - From the Author. No. 2 George Street Trinity Square London } 17th Sept 1804\u0094. Text-block VERY LIGHTLY TONED with some sparse age-staining & off-setting around plates - BUT OTHERWISE VERY CLEAN AND ATTRACTIVE! Modern binding tight and intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. William IV (William Henry; 1765 \u0096 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded his elder brother George IV, becoming the last king and penultimate monarch of Britain's House of Hanover. William served in the Royal Navy in his youth, spending time in British North America and the Caribbean, and was later nicknamed the \"Sailor King\". In 1789, he was created Duke of Clarence and St Andrews. Between 1791 and 1811, he cohabited with the actress Dorothea Jordan, with whom he had ten children. In 1818, he married Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen; William was not known to have had mistresses during their marriage. In 1827, he was appointed Britain's Lord High Admiral, the first since 1709. Andrew Mackay (1760\u00961809) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer, known as a teacher of navigation. In his later years Mackay took pupils in London at his house in George Street, Trinity Square; he taught mathematics and natural philosophy, navigation, architecture, and engineering. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO THE DUKE OF CLARENCE WHICH WOULD THEN BECOME KING WILLIAM IV. RAREB1804FRSX- 10\/25 - HK2842.
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