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 asimuth-compass and ring-dial. The fore-staff, quadrant, and nocturnal; the plain-scale, Gunter's-scale, plain-chart, Mercator's-chart, both globes, and virtues of the loadstone. Useful tables of the moon's age, of the tides, of the sun's place, declination and right ascension; of the star's 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 logarithm sines, tangents and secants. All carefully corrected with many useful additions
By: By John Seller, hydrographer to the King
Contributors: Colson, John, active 1671-1709; Horblit, Harrison D.
Publisher: Printed for William Mount, and Thomas Page, in Postern-Row, on Tower-Hill
Published: 1739
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Navigation; Pilots and pilotage; Booksellers' catalogs
Other titles: Introduction to the whole art.
Notes: "This book was first written by Mr. John Seller, and very much enlarged by Mr. John Colson": p. [5] (1st count)

Added engraved title page.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2K⁴ ²A-²Q⁴

"Books of navigation, &c. printed for William Mount and Thomas Page, on Tower-Hill.": p. [4] (1st count)

Adams & Waters.  English maritime books, 3159.

European Americana, 739/279.