12th May, 2015 12:00
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Sandwich)
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[M] Anon: Master book of an instructor in a school...
Anon: Master book of an instructor in a school of seamanship, charting and navigation
including the Gregorian calendar, arithmetical navigation, astronomy, a way to find the apparent time by observation of a star, a journal of a voyage to Barbados, 348ff. (with 6 possible excisions). Folio (385 x 235mm.) ? London, c.1776.
ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT with pen and ink diagrams of which 36 are hand coloured. Contemporary calf with decorated corner pieces. 6 decorated brass holders.
A splendid example of this manual of seamanship.
including the Gregorian calendar, arithmetical navigation, astronomy, a way to find the apparent time by observation of a star, a journal of a voyage to Barbados, 348ff. (with 6 possible excisions). Folio (385 x 235mm.) ? London, c.1776.
ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT with pen and ink diagrams of which 36 are hand coloured. Contemporary calf with decorated corner pieces. 6 decorated brass holders.
A splendid example of this manual of seamanship.
Sold for £2,108
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500
(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)
Anon: Master book of an instructor in a school of seamanship, charting and navigation
including the Gregorian calendar, arithmetical navigation, astronomy, a way to find the apparent time by observation of a star, a journal of a voyage to Barbados, 348ff. (with 6 possible excisions). Folio (385 x 235mm.) ? London, c.1776.
ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT with pen and ink diagrams of which 36 are hand coloured. Contemporary calf with decorated corner pieces. 6 decorated brass holders.
A splendid example of this manual of seamanship.
including the Gregorian calendar, arithmetical navigation, astronomy, a way to find the apparent time by observation of a star, a journal of a voyage to Barbados, 348ff. (with 6 possible excisions). Folio (385 x 235mm.) ? London, c.1776.
ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT with pen and ink diagrams of which 36 are hand coloured. Contemporary calf with decorated corner pieces. 6 decorated brass holders.
A splendid example of this manual of seamanship.
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Sandwich), 12th May, 2015
