The mariner's magazine
Subtitle: stor'd with these mathematical arts : whereunto is annexed, An abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of Parliament, relating to the customs, and navigation, and, A compendium of fortification
By: by Capt. Samuel Sturmy
Edition: The second edition / diligently revised and carefully corrected by John Colson ...
Publisher: Printed by Anne Godbid for William Fisher ... Edward Thomas ... Robert Boulter ... Thomas Passinger ... Ralph Smith ... and Richard Northcot ...
Published: 1679
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Navigation; Early works to 1800; Surveying; Naval gunnery; Fireworks; Dialing; Spherical astronomy
Other titles: Sturmys mathematical and practical arts.
Notes: Signatures: [pi]1 (engraved), A⁴, a-c⁴, B-Cc⁴, Aaa⁴ (Aaa1 + aaa²) Bbb-Ttt⁴ Uuu², (a)-(m)² (n)-(p)⁴.

Pages 152-153 (2nd count) misnumbered 142-143.

Added illustrated t.p., with title 'The mariners magazine, or, Sturmys mathematicall and practicall arts,' engraved by Thomas Cross.

'Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts. The fifth[-seventh] book ... ' ([6], 143 [i.e. 153] p. (2nd count)), 'Canon triangulorum logarithmicus' and 'Chiliades decem logarithmorum ... first composed by ... Mr. Henry Briggs ... ' (p. [2]-[49] (3rd count)), 'A summary of ... several acts of Parliament relating to customs and navigation ... ' ([4], 11 p. (4th count)) and 'A compendium of fortification ... written by Philip Staynred ... ' ([3], 13 p. (5th count)) have special t.p.'s with Andrew or Mary Clark imprint, dated 1676-1678.

Four plates have volvelles.

Wing (2nd ed.) S6097
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.