The new seaman's guide and coaster's companion : containing complete sailing directions for ships, both outward and homeward bound, through the river Thames, and all its entrances; the British and British Channels, on both coasts, including all the harbours; the coast of Wales; west coasts of England and Scotland, the south coast of Ireland; and the islands of Man, Scilly, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, &c. Also the east coast of Great Britain, with the Orkney, Shetland, and Western Islands; the coasts of Flanders, Holland, and Germany; the North Sea; Kattegat, Sound, Baltic, Gulf of Finland, and Northern Navigation to the White Sea. And all the useful tables, viz. Tables of the magnetic courses, and distances from place to place, for all the coasts of Europe, and many of Africa and Asia: with the variations. A table of the distances by water in miles from London to the principal ports in Great Britain, Ireland, the continents of Europe, and America, the West Indies, &c. Copious tables of latitudes and longitudes, from the best and latest observations: and improved and corrected tide tide [sic] tables; to which are subjoined, easiest methods of finding the epact, the moon's age, and the day of new moon. Also new tables of the sun's declination, from 1809 to 1824. Improved and augmented by many important additions and observations from new surveys, by John Diston, M. Downie, Master in the Royal Navy, and Alexander Ingram, teacher of navigation and mathematics in Leith, and author of the newly much improved and corrected edition of "Simson's Euclid;" as also of the "Principles of Geography," and of the corrected and enlarged edition of "Hunter's Arithmetic and Key."
Diston, John.
Downie, Murdo.
Ingram, Alexander.
Stevenson, Robert,1772-1850,former owner.StEdNL
Leith : Printed by Oliphant and Reid. For W. Coke, and W. Reid, booksellers, Leith,
1811.
Manuscript signature at the head of the title page of "[???] Stevenson". With a fragment of a leaf from another publication used as a bookmark.
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