The mariner's compass rectified : containing tables, shewing [sic] 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 ... : with tables of amplitudes ... : with the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation ...

The mariner's compass rectified : containing tables, shewing [sic] 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 ... : with tables of amplitudes ... : with the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation ...

Enlarged with many useful additions by J. Atkinson. The whole revised, and carefully corrected, with accurate tables of the sun's declination, adjusted to the new-stile by William Mountaine ...

London : Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page & Son ..., 1757.

272 p. : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)

L2008F188 1757

(OCoLC)27025172

First published in 1633, revised by Atkinson in 1694, and later by William Mountaine in 1753.
"To the reader" signed: Andrew Wakeley; "To the public" signed: James Atkinson.
Signatures: A-R8.
Publisher's advertisement: verso of half title.
Bound in sprinkled sheep, rebacked with the original spine laid down.
Ms. inscription on front pastedown: Thomas R Roberts; ms. calculation of latitude and longitude on front free endpapers by Will Randolph, Jany. 11th 1760 who was Thomas Jefferson's uncle; penciled signatures on half title: Eliza. Randolph, Mary Little Randolph (children of William Randolph).

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