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The mariners magazine : stor'd with these mathematical arts : the rudiments of navigation and geometry, the making and use of divers mathematical instruments, the doctrine of triangles, plain and spherical, the art of navigation by the plain-chart, Mercator's-chart and the arch of a great circle, the art of surveying, gauging and measuring, gunnery and artificial fire-works, the rudiments of astronomy, the art of dialling : also with tables of logarithms and tables of the suns declination, of the latitude and longitude, right ascension and declination of the most notable fixed stars, of the latitude and longitude of places, of meridional parts : whereunto are annexed an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of Parliament, relating to the Customs and to navigation : and a compendium of fortification / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Swift's Reading Collection Folio VK551 .S78 1684
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sturmy, Samuel, 1633-1669.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navigation--Early works to 1800.
- Navigation.
- Surveying--Early works to 1800.
- Surveying.
- Naval gunnery--Early works to 1800.
- Naval gunnery.
- Fireworks--Early works to 1800.
- Fireworks.
- Dialing--Early works to 1800.
- Dialing.
- Spherical astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Spherical astronomy.
- Genre:
- Advertisements -- England -- London -- 17th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree)
- Elias, Susan Homans (honoree)
- Kinchela, Lewis C. (bookplate) (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- 28 unnumbered pages, 196 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 173 pages, 49 unnumbered pages, 12? leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portrait ; 30 cm (folio)
- Edition:
- The third edition / diligently revised and carefully corrected by John Colson ...
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by John Playford for W. Fisher and R. Mount ..., R. Boulter ..., T. Passinger ..., R. Smith ... and R. Northcot ..., 1684.
- Notes:
- Also issued with variant imprints, one omitting Smith (Wing S6098), the other omitting Boulter (Wing S6098A, ESTC R221135).
- Signatures: a⁶ b-c⁴ B-2B⁴ 2C² 3A-3Y⁴, ²a-m² (a2 signed A2).
- Title in red and black.
- Added engraved pictorial title (signed "Tho: Cross sculpsit"): The mariners magazine or Sturmys mathematicall and practicall arts ... By Cap: Samuell Sturmy 1679. The date (that of the 2nd ed.) is visibly altered from 1669 (1st ed.).
- "A constant kalendar: or an almanack", "Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts. The fifth book", "The mariner's magazine ... The seventh book", "A compendium of fortification" (by Philip Staynred), "Canon triangulorum logarithmicus", and "Chiliades decem logarithmorum" have special title pages, all dated 1683 except the "Chiliades" dated 1684, and all with imprint of Mary Clark except "A constant kalendar", which names no printer or bookseller.
- Error in pagination: 159 (first count) misnumbered 157.
- Engraved plates include portrait of Sturmy dated 1669, engraved title, and three volvelles. Illustrations in the text include both woodcuts and engravings.
- Advertisements on leaves c4v and 3Y4v.
- Local Notes:
- This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.
- Imperfect: portrait and engraved t.p. wanting; some plates torn along folds.
- Cited in:
- ESTC R203030
- Wing (2nd ed.) S6098, S6098A
- Philip, C. Firework books, S290.3
- Contains:
- Staynred, Philip. Compendium of fortification.
- OCLC:
- 122344291
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