Author: WAKELY (Andrew):
Title: The Mariner's Compass Rectified: Containing Tables, shewing the True Hour of the Day, the Sun being upon any Point of the Compass: With the true Time of the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Stars, and the Points of the Compass that the Sun and Stars rise and set with: And Tables of Amplitude. All which Tables are Calculated from the Equinoctial to 60 Degrees of Latitude, &c. With the Description and Use of those Instruments most in Use in the Art of Navigation. Also a Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. Carefully Corrected, and very much Enlarged with many useful Additions. By J. Atkinson, Teacher of the Mathematicks.
Description: London: Printed for William Mount and Thomas Page..., 1738. 8vo, pp. 272, including half-title with adverts on verso, 3 illustrations in text, contemporary sheepskin; lacks the volvelle for the "Rectifier" on p. 95, spine and front cover repaired in lighter calf. Andrew Wakely published this work in 1665, and there were approximately 50 further editions before the end of the 18th century. Atkinson's edition first appeared in 1704. ESTC locates copies for an edition of 1736 and for 1741, but not this edition of 1738. The only copy I have been able to trace of this printing is in the BL.

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