The Seaman's New Daily Assistant, Exhibiting an Easy and Expeditious Method of keeping a Ship's Reckoning at Sea
Containing Rules for Working the various Sailings by the Tables of Difference of Latitude and Departure, and for Finding the Latitude and Variation of the Compass by Observation; Also, General Rules for working a Day's Work, with the Method of correcting the Courses for Leeway, Variation, &c. The Whole Exemplified in A Journal From England to Madeira. To Which are Added the Most Necessary and Useful Tables; Particularly a new and accurate Table of Latitudes and Longitudes of the Principal Points on the Coasts of Great Britain, Ireland, &c. London: Printed for the Author and Sold by Charles Wilson, Late J. W. Norie & Wilson, 1849.
Sixteenth edition. Leather bound. Octavo. [1], vi, 60 pages, 102 pages of Tables. Illustrated with plate titled Mariner's Compass. Brown sheepskin leather binding. The front board and front end sheets detached. Title lable on the spine is missing. Leather is dry, rubbed, flaking and chipped. Interior contents very clean. A couple of scrap pieces of paper laid inside. One piece appears to be from a Seaman's log. A fair copy. Fair. Item #24906
Price: $150.00