The sea-man's grammar and dictionary, explaining all the difficult terms in navigation: and The practical navigator and gunner: in two parts
Subtitle: I. Most plain and easy directions, to build, rigg, yard, and mast any ship whatsoever. With the manner of working of a ship in all weathers: --and how to manage a fight at sea:--also the charge and duty of every officer in a ship, and their shares -- and the use of the petty-tally. II. An abstract of the art of gunnery, (or shooting in great ordnance and morter-pieces): wherein the principles of that art are plainly taught, both by arithmetical calculation, and by tables ready calculated -- with the compositions for the making of several fire-works useful in war, both at sea and land. --And an apendix [sic] how by several geometrical ways to take heights, depths, and distances, accessible or inaccessible
By: By Captain John Smith, sometimes governour of Virginia, and admiral of New-England..
Edition: Now much amplified and enlarged, with variety of experiments, since his time, made by several experienced navigators and gunners..
Publisher: Printed for R. Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill
Published: 1699
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Navigation; Handbooks, manuals; Masts and rigging; Naval architecture; Naval gunnery; Naval art and science; Catalogs, Booksellers'
Other titles: Sea-mans grammar and dictionary; or The practical navigator and gunner
Work titles: Sea-mans grammar
Notes: A further enlarged edition of "The sea-mans grammar", printed in London, 1652 (Wing S4123). First published in London, 1626 as "An accidence or The path-way to experience" (STC 22784). The first enlarged edition appeared in London, 1627 with title "A sea grammar".

Consists of the same sheets as the edition with imprint: London: Printed for T. Dring and B. Griffin, 1692, with an additional preliminary leaf, "Books of navigation printed for and sold by Richard Mount".

Signatures: pi1 (pi1 recto blank) [A]⁴ ([A]1 verso blank) B-Y⁴ (M2 verso blank) Z² (Z2 verso blank).

Errors in paging: pages 78 and 96, 2nd count, misnumbered numbered 87 and 86.

Leaf T3, pages 133-134, 3rd count, is a cancel leaf.

Bookseller's advertisements: page [2], 1st count.

Includes a folded engraved frontispiece illustration of ship with numbered parts relating to the facing folded leaf with the key; includes other in-text woodcut diagrams and illustrations.

Title printed within double rule border; woodcut head pieces; initials.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), S4126

Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana (1875-1882 edition), II:1576

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, page 400

European Americana, 699/196

English short title catalogue, R232298

Purchase; 1851; 02435.