Author: COLSON (Nathaniel):
Title: The Mariner's New Calendar. Containing The Principles of Arithmetic and Practical Geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots: Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with Exact Tables of the Sun's place, Declination, and Right-Scension.... Also The Use of the Sea-Quadrant...With Directions for sailing into some Principal Habours.... The whole revis'd, and adjusted to the New Stile, By William Mountaine.
Description: London: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page & Son..., 1759. Small 4to, 200 x 142 mms., pp. 136, including half-title, old ownership notice loosely inserted, recently rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards, black leather label; text browned, with some water-staining in first 25 leaves, outer margins a bit worn. The first edition of this work appears to have been published in 1676, and there were at least another 38 editions published in the 18th century. Although ESTC records printings in 1758 and 1760, this printing with 1759 in the imprint does not appear.

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