A complete treatise of practical navigation : demonstrated from its first principles: with all the necessary tables : to which are added, the useful theorems of mensuration, surveying, and gauging : with their application to practice

A complete treatise of practical navigation : demonstrated from its first principles: with all the necessary tables : to which are added, the useful theorems of mensuration, surveying, and gauging : with their application to practice

Patoun's Treatise of navigation|Treatise of navigation

8th ed. / rev. and corr. by the author, with large additions and alterations.

London Printed for W. Mount ... [17 others] 1770

xii, 525 [i.e. 531], [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo)

L1999F571 1770

(OCoLC)03005788

Half title: Patoun's Treatise of navigation.
Signatures: [pi]4 a2 B-Z8 2A8 + [2A]1 2B-2L8 + chi 1.
Numbers 365-370 repeated in paging.
Includes a large and very useful table of difference of latitude and departure ...; a table of meridional parts; a table of logarithms; a table of artificial sines, tangents, and secants ...; a table of the sun's declination ...
Ms. inscriptions on front pastedown & first front free endpaper: W. Burnaby, 1776; W.G. Beavan, May 29th 1806.
Bookplate: Harrison D. Horblit.
Ms. notes & corrections throughout the text in an unidentified hand.

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