Act for providing a publick reward for such person or persons as shall discover the longitude at sea
Contributors: Baskett, John, 1666 or 1667-1742, printer; Assigns of Thomas Newcomb; Assigns of Henry Hills
Publisher: Printed by John Baskett, printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceas'd.
Published: 1714
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Longitude; Early works to 1800; Navigation; Ouvrages avant 1800
Other titles: Anno Regni Annæ Reginæ Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, duodecimo. At the Parliament summoned to be held at Westminster, the twelfth day of November, . 1713. . And . begun and holden on the sixteenth day of February, 1713. Being the first session of this present Parliament.
Work titles: Laws, etc. (Public general acts)
Notes: Title vignette (royal arms).

At head of drop-head title: "Anno duodecimo Annæ Reginæ."--Text in black letter.

Last word of first line of text: "are"; first word of line below initial: "is."

Rare Book (Smith) copy: David Eugens Smith's manuscript note on front wrapper: "The original statute which led to Harrison's discovery of the method of finding the longitude of a ship at sea."

Rare Book (Seligman) copy: No. 33 in a bound volume of titles; last leaf wanting.

National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints, NSG 0048153

Horblit, H.D. One hundred books famous in science, 42a

English short title catalogue (ESTC), N53213