An accidence or The path-way to experience
Subtitle: Necessary for all young sea-men, or those that are desirous to goe to sea, briefly shewing the phrases, offices, and words of command, belonging to the building, ridging, and sayling, a man of warre; and how to manage a fight at sea. Together with the charge and duty of every officer, and their shares: also the names, vveight, charge, shot, and powder, of all sorts of great ordnance. With the vse of the petty tally. Written by Captaine Iohn Smith sometimes governour of Virginia, and admirall of New England.
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 1008:12.
Publisher: Printed [by Nicholas Okes] for Ionas Man, and Benjamin Fisher, and are to be sold at the signe of the Talbot, in Aldersgate streete
Published: 1626
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Naval art and science -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Accidence; Path-way to experience.
Work titles: Sea-mans grammar
Notes: Printer's name from STC.

Running title reads: An accidence for yong sea-men.

The last leaf is blank.

Dedication on A2r: "To all the Right Honorable and most generous lords in England, and others". Variant: dedication to Sir Robert Heath.

Enlarged and rearranged as "A sea grammar" and, later, "A sea-mans grammar".

A variant (STC 22785) is dated 1627.

Reproduction of a photostat of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

STC (2nd ed.) 22784.

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1964. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1008:12).