The practical navigator, and seaman's new daily assistant. : Being an epitome of navigation: including the different methods of working the lunar observations. With every particular requisite for keeping a complete journal at sea. Likewise the methods of finding the latitude by two altitudes of the sun; by the meridian altitude of the moon, the planets, or fixed stars; and to compute the altitudes of the sun, moon, or stars, without an observation. The manner of mooring, unmooring, and working a ship in all difficult cases at sea. With directions for conducting her out of dock, and into the principal ports and harbours in the British Channel. Which is the substance of that examination, every candidate for a commission in the Royal Navy, and officer in the Honorable East-India Company's service, must pass through, previous to their being appointed: this, with the sea terms, are particularly recommended to the attention of all young gentlemen designed for, or belonging to the sea. To this edition are added, besides many important improvements, the requisite tables used with the nautical almanac in determining the longitute at sea. The different methods are examplified and rendered easy to any common capacity. Also, a new table, the largest and most correct hitherto published, of the latitudes and longitudes of the principal ports and headlands in the known world; and all the other tables useful at sea. Revised and corrected with such care that may be depended on. /
Moore, John Hamilton,-1807.
MacQuarie, Lachlan,active 1792,former owner.StEdNL
Sutherland, Ian Wishart,1935-,donor.StEdNL
London: : Printed for and sold by B. Law and Son, in Ave-Maria-Lane; G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row, and the author, on Tower-Hill.,
M,DCC,XCI. [1791]
The final 100 leaves contain tables and three pages of advertisements.
Page 112 misnumbered 121.
ESTC
Ink inscription on front flyleaf: Lachlan MacQuarie Ulva, 12th Novr. 1792. Donated to the National Library of Scotland by Professor Ian Wishart Sutherland on 1 October 2018.
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