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Title The seaman's daily assistant, |
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Published, Date London : printed for J. Mount and T. Page,1768. |
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Description Seventh edition. Small 4to., [viii], 160pp., occasaisional light spotting and browning, contemporary calf rebacked with early stiched calf (possibly by a sailor), small blindstamp to last two leaves. Provenance: Edward Thorn (old inscriptions); Frank Streeter (bookplate). |
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Note Rare. ESTC records 1 copy only of this edition (BL), and indeed records only either 1 or 2 copies for all the early editions. Curious as overcast and neatly stitched rebacking seems to us to be the work of a sailor, and one can easily imagine such a repair being made on board to preserve such an important manual The work includes a table of difference of latitude to each degree, instructions for working out position according to Mercator, tables of high water, the sun's ascension and declination, and the positions of the stars. The scarcity of this title owes much to the fact that it was a practical text. |
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Stock Number 75225 |
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