A new theoretical and practical treatise on navigation: : in which the auxiliary branches of mathematics and astronomy, comprised of algebra, geometry, logarithms, plane and spherical trigonometry, the motions of the heavenly bodies, tides, variation of the compass, etc., are treated of. : Also, the theory and most simple methods of finding time, latitude, and longitude, by chronometers, lunar observations, single and double altitudes, are taught. : together with a new and easy plan for finding diff. lat., dep., course, and distance. /

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Main Author: Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873 (Author)
Corporate Author: Haswell and Barrington (Printer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia: : Key and Biddle, Minor Street., 1836.
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Call Number: VK555 M45 1836
Notes: This copy is from the library of George Cunha, founder of the Northeast Document Conservation Center, with his bookplate on the front pastedown and a gift inscription dated "NAS Quonset Point, April 1956-October 1957" on the front blank. Also has label of John K. Randall, bookseller, Mobile.
Bound in original mottled calf with spine label.
 
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