The mariner's magazine
Subtitle: stor'd with these mathematical arts ...: also with tables of logarithms ...
By: by Capt. Samuel Sturmy
Edition: The third edition, diligently revised and carefully corrected / by John Colson ...
Publisher: Printed by J. Playford, for W. Fisher and R. Mount ... T. Passinger ... R. Smith ... and R. Northcot ...
Published: 1684
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Navigation; Early works to 1800; Surveying; Naval gunnery; Fireworks; Dialing; Spherical astronomy
Other titles: Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts.
Notes: Signatures: [pi]1 (engraved), A⁶ (±A1), b-c⁴, B-Bb⁴ Cc², Aaa-Iii⁴ Kkk² Lℓℓ-Yyy⁴, (a)-(m)² (A3 signed 'a3', (a)2 signed 'a2').

Added illustrated t.p. dated 1679, with title 'The mariners magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematicall and practical arts', engraved by Thomas Cross.

A reissue of sheets, with cancel t.p. (A1); the imprint of the first issue adds the name of "R. Boulter".

"Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts. The fifth [-seventh] book ... " ([2], 146 p. (2nd count)), "A compendium of fortification ... written by Philip Staynred ... " (p. [159]-173) and "Canon triangulorum logarithmicus ... " (p. [1]-[24] at end) have special t.p.'s with imprint: London : Printed by Mary Clark, 1683. "Chiliades decem logarithmorum ... first composed by ... Mr. Henry Briggs ... " (p. [25]-[48] at end) has special t.p. with imprint: London : Printed by Mary Clark, 1684.

Six plates have volvelles.

Wing (2nd ed.) 6098A
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) The rudiments of navigation and geometry; title: The making and use of divers mathematical instruments; title: The doctrine of triangles, plain and spherical; title: The art of navigation, by the plain chart, Mercator's-chart, and the arch of a great circle; title: The art of surveying, gauging, and measuring, gunnery and artificial fire-works; title: The rudiments of astronomy; title: The art of dialling.