Practical navigation; or, An introduction to the whole art
Subtitle: Containing many useful geometrical definitions and problems; the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles; plain Mercator, and great-circle-sailing; sundry useful problems in astronomy; the use of instruments; the azimuth-compass; ring-dyal; variation compass; the fore-staff, quadrant, plough, and nocturnal; the plain scale, Gunter's scale, sinical quadrant; plain chart; Mercator's-chart; both globes; the inclinatory-needle, and virtues of the load-stone; useful tables of the moon's age, of the tides, of the sun's place, declination, and right-ascension; of the stars right-ascension and declination; the latitude and longitude of places; and a table of meridional parts; likewise a new traverse-table, and the use thereof in keeping a reckoning at sea: also a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the log, sines, tangents and secants
By: By John Seller, hydrographer to the King
Contributors: Benbridge, Thomas; White, Robert, 1645-1703
Edition: The fourth edition, enlarged.
Publisher: Printed by J. Darby, and are to be sold by the author at the Hermitage in Wapping, by W. Fisher at the Postern-gate near Tower-Hill, by R. Boulter at the Turks-Head in Cornhil, by T. Passenger at the three Bibles on London-Bridg, and R. Smith, at the Bible in Cornhil
Published: 1680
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Navigation; Tables; Logarithms
Other titles: Introduction to the whole art.
Notes: First published: London, 1669.

With added engraved title page, signed R. White scupl.

Signatures: pi1 [A]⁴ B-2Y⁴ 3A-3S⁴ 3T²

"A table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes" ([55] p., 3d group) and "A triangular canon logarithmical" ([91] p., 4th group) have special title pages dated 1679.

Wing (2nd ed.) S2483aA.

Adams & Waters.  English maritime books, 3144.