The seaman's daily assistant, being a short, easy, and plain method of keeping a journal at sea : in which are contain'd rules, shewing [sic] how the allowances for lee-way, variation, heave of the sea, set of currents, &c. are to be made ...
1767
L2009F16 1767
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Title
The seaman's daily assistant, being a short, easy, and plain method of keeping a journal at sea : in which are contain'd rules, shewing [sic] how the allowances for lee-way, variation, heave of the sea, set of currents, &c. are to be made ...
Variant Title
Table of difference of latitude and departure to every single degree, and as far as 300 miles distance|Journal of a voyage from England towards Madera
Published
London : Printed for J. Mount and T. Page ..., 1767.
Description
[8], 160 p. : chiefly tables ; 20 cm. (4to)
Call Number
L2009F16 1767
System Control No.
(OCoLC)312425090
Note
Signatures: A-X4.
Half title on leaf A4r: A table of difference of latitude and departure to every single degree, and as far as 300 miles distance (p. 1-132); half title on leaf S3r: A journal of a voyage from England towards Madera (p. [133]-160).
Ms. notes on front & end free endpapers: record of its owners' various "travels and travails"; ms. inscriptions on 1st front free endpaper: "Abram Outten Bought at Baltimore 1769" (probably first owner); "Isaac Outten". Subsequently it passed to John Sturgis, who bought the book in Baltimore in 1776 & annotated the endpapers with "log" entries, navigational calculations, pen trials & recorded his experiences as a privateer sailing in the West Indies; Edward Yard, acquired the book in 1777 & recorded a report of his capture and transport to Forton Prison in England. While at Forton, Edward Yard sold the book to another American prisoner, Jonathan Carpenter.
Digitized image available [title page].
Half title on leaf A4r: A table of difference of latitude and departure to every single degree, and as far as 300 miles distance (p. 1-132); half title on leaf S3r: A journal of a voyage from England towards Madera (p. [133]-160).
Ms. notes on front & end free endpapers: record of its owners' various "travels and travails"; ms. inscriptions on 1st front free endpaper: "Abram Outten Bought at Baltimore 1769" (probably first owner); "Isaac Outten". Subsequently it passed to John Sturgis, who bought the book in Baltimore in 1776 & annotated the endpapers with "log" entries, navigational calculations, pen trials & recorded his experiences as a privateer sailing in the West Indies; Edward Yard, acquired the book in 1777 & recorded a report of his capture and transport to Forton Prison in England. While at Forton, Edward Yard sold the book to another American prisoner, Jonathan Carpenter.
Digitized image available [title page].
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