Author

WAKELY, Andrew.

Title

The Mariners Compass Rectified:
containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day ... with a table of the latitude and longitude of places. ... Also a description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation ... Carefully corrected, and very much enlarged, with many useful additions. By Ja. Atkinson

Published, Date

Printed for Rich. Mount, London,1716.

Description

8vo., 258pp., complete with half-title with ads to verso (slightly cropped), woodcut illustrations, some full-page, light waterstain to preliminaries, heavier waterstain at end, last four leaves chipped at margins not affecting text, modern half-calf gilt.

Note

The fifth and final edition of a work first published in 1665. ESTC records MH only of this edition, and all editions are rare. The illustrations include 2 of a rectifier, 1 of a nocturnal, and others on the use of the fore-staff and the quadrant.

References

Adams & Waters 367; Taylor, Mathematical paractitioners, 169.

Stock Number

75733