The sea-mans grammar and dictionary : explaining all the difficult terms in navigation, and the practical navigator and gunner : in two parts : I. Most plain and easie directions, to build, rigg, yard, and mast any ship whatsoever. With the manner of working of a ship in all weathers, and how to manage a fight at sea, also the charge and duty of every officer in a ship, and their shares, and the use of the petty tally : II. An abstract of the art of gunnery, (or shooting in great ordnance and morter-pieces) wherein the principles of that art are plainly taught both by arithmetical calculation, and by tables ready calculated, with the compositions for the making of several fireworks useful in war both at sea and land : and an appendix how by several geometrical ways to take heights, depths, and distances, accessible or inaccessible
1692
L2012F131 1692
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Title
The sea-mans grammar and dictionary : explaining all the difficult terms in navigation, and the practical navigator and gunner : in two parts : I. Most plain and easie directions, to build, rigg, yard, and mast any ship whatsoever. With the manner of working of a ship in all weathers, and how to manage a fight at sea, also the charge and duty of every officer in a ship, and their shares, and the use of the petty tally : II. An abstract of the art of gunnery, (or shooting in great ordnance and morter-pieces) wherein the principles of that art are plainly taught both by arithmetical calculation, and by tables ready calculated, with the compositions for the making of several fireworks useful in war both at sea and land : and an appendix how by several geometrical ways to take heights, depths, and distances, accessible or inaccessible
Variant Title
Accidence, or, The path-way to experience
Published
London : Printed for Tho. Dring and B. Griffin, and are to be sold at the Harrow ..., 1692.
Description
[8], 163 [i.e. 171], [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Call Number
L2012F131 1692
System Control No.
(OCoLC)30550457
Note
Title within double ruled border.
Signatures: [A]4 B-Y4 Z2.
Leaf I4 signed (k).
Various pagination: numbers 129-144, 133-137, 130-131 & 140 repeated in paging; numbers 145-152 omitted in paging.
Folded plates include "A description of a ship with all her tackling" which serves as a numbered key to the adjacent engraved illustration.
First published in 1626 under title: An accidence, or, The path-way to experience as the first English book on seamanship, naval gunnery & nautical terms.
Signatures: [A]4 B-Y4 Z2.
Leaf I4 signed (k).
Various pagination: numbers 129-144, 133-137, 130-131 & 140 repeated in paging; numbers 145-152 omitted in paging.
Folded plates include "A description of a ship with all her tackling" which serves as a numbered key to the adjacent engraved illustration.
First published in 1626 under title: An accidence, or, The path-way to experience as the first English book on seamanship, naval gunnery & nautical terms.
Indexed In
Sabin 82842
Wing S4124
ESTC R37567
Wing S4124
ESTC R37567
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