Author: Taylor, E. G. R. [ed.]
Title: A Regiment for the Sea / and Other Writings on Navigation / by William Bourne of Gravesend, a Gunner (C. 1535-1582)
Description: Cambridge, Printed for the Hakluyt Society at the Cambridge University Press, 1964. Hardcover. pp. xxxv, 464. 8vo. Bound in sky-blue cloth with lettering and decoration in gilt and blind. Maps and illustrations present as called-for. Light shelfwear, bookplate to ffep, red ribbon page marker taped to rfep, contents unmarked, binding sound; very good in good- slightly edgeworn and sunned dustjacket, showing short closed tears along edges with clear tape affixed to front panel. Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Part 2, No. 121. " Reprints Bourne’s two almanacks and the Regiment (1574). Appended are the surviving portion of John Dee’s navigational tables, the wills of Bourne and his wife, and a bibliographical description of Bourne’s manuscript and printed works by D. W. Waters and R. A. Skelton.

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