Author: PATOUN (Archibald)
Title: A Complete Treatise of practical Navigation demonstrated from it's First Principles: together with all the Necessary Tables. To which are added, the useful Theorems of Mensuration, Surveying, and Gauging; with their Application to Practice. Written for the Academy in Tower-Street.
Description: London: Printed for J. Brotherton, J. Hazard, [and 9 others in London], 1739. Second edition, 8vo (195 x 125 mm), viii, 525, [3]pp., with a final contents leaf, lacks front fly-leaf, margins of title page browned, folding engraved plate, numerous illustrations in the text, contemporary calf, slightly rubbed. Provenance: Cont. signature of Sir John Kalkett at head of title page, the armorial bookplate of Pitfirrane Castle; University of Keele, Turner Collection label on front paste-down. Wallis, 730PAT30/39.

Keywords: Mathematics Navigation