Author

COLSON, Nathaniel.

Title

The Mariners New Kalendar
Containing the Principles of Arithmetic and Geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots. Also Rules for finding the Prime Exact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the Same... by Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematicks.

Published, Date

Printed for W. and J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill,1748.

Description

8vo (187 by 135mm). Half title (replete with three ink two penny Duty Stamps), advertisement, title, 136pp., two woodcut illustrations in text, last few leaves clipped at lower corner, modern marbled paper boards.

Note

Rare. A fascinating summary of the mathematical basics of navigation. ESTC only reveals two institutional examples of this edition; those of the British Library (lacking the half title) and Ann Arbor.

References

ESTC 134825

Stock Number

74098