A proposal to determine our longitude
By: by Jane Squire
Edition: The second edition, in English only.
Publisher: Printed for the author, and sold by S. Cope ... and by the Booksellers of London and Westminster
Published: 1743
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Longitude; Early works to 1800; Navigation
Notes: Earlier ed. has title: A proposal for discovering our longitude / by Jane Squire ... London : Printed for the author ..., 1742.

Engraved table on folded leaf.

Proposal first sent in 1731 to the Parliamentary commission appointed to evaluate proposals to determine longitude at sea. Both 1742 and 1743 eds. include the correspondence of Squire's unsuccessful attempt to have her proposal accepted, and a postscript with her scheme for an artificial language, Lacinfanta.

Imperfect: Lacking the Index ([4] p. at end)

Bound in contemporary calf with a gilt black onlay in the center of the front board with four of Squre's characters for her "cloves of longitude" laid out in quandrant form; at least one other copy of a similar binding is known (at the Clements Library/University of Michigan); hinges cracked; in CMI.
Table of contents: title: A proposal to determine our longitude; title: Copies of [13] letters written and received by Jane Squire in consequence of the preceding proposal; title: Letters [7, dated 1741-42] written since the second act of Parliament; title: The explanation of a proposal to determine our longitude ...; title: Postscript; title: The contents of the explanation of a proposal to determine our longitude.