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 a description of the most useful instruments in practice in the art of navigation : also a table of the latitude and longitude of places
1783
L2009F147 1783
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Title
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 a description of the most useful instruments in practice in the art of navigation : also a table of the latitude and longitude of places
Edition
Enlarged with many useful additions by J. Atkinson. The whole revised, corrected, improved and enlarged, with new tables and examples, by John Adams ...
Published
London : Printed for Mount and Page ..., 1783.
Description
272 p. : ill., chiefly tables ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Call Number
L2009F147 1783
System Control No.
(OCoLC)463298983
Note
Originally published in 1633, revised by Atkinson in 1694, and later by William Mountaine in 1753; many editions followed up to 1796.
Signatures: [A]8 B-R8.
Tables of latitude and longitude include many ports in Canada, New England & the West Indies.
Bound in full calf (newly rebacked); raised bands on spine with red morocco label.
Ms. inscription on front free endpaper: "Richd. Hatfield Jun. A Present."
Signatures: [A]8 B-R8.
Tables of latitude and longitude include many ports in Canada, New England & the West Indies.
Bound in full calf (newly rebacked); raised bands on spine with red morocco label.
Ms. inscription on front free endpaper: "Richd. Hatfield Jun. A Present."
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