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A table of proportional logarithms : to be used with the astronomical and nautical ephemeris.
LIBRA - Rare QB8.G7 G7 1766 item 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Great Britain. Commissioners for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navigation--Tables--Early works to 1800.
- Navigation.
- Nautical astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Nautical astronomy.
- Genre:
- Tables.
- Tables (Data)
- Physical Description:
- 41 unnumbered pages, 130-162 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols : and sold by J. Nourse, bookseller ... and Mess. Mount and Page ..., MDCCLXVI [1766]
- Notes:
- "Printed by William Bowyer and John Nichols; their records show 10,150 copies printed."--ESTC.
- Signatures: B-F⁴ S-X⁴ Y1 [Z]².
- "Possibly issued with: 'The nautical almanac and astronomical ephemeris, for the year 1767.' and 'Tables requisite to be used with the astronomical and nautical ephemeris'. With a final leaf of index to all three publications."--ESTC.
- Errata on leaf Z2v.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy bound with: Great Britain. Commissioners of Longitude. Tables requisite to be used with the astronomical and nautical ephemeris. London : Printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark : and sold by J. Nourse, bookseller ... and Mess. Mount and Page ..., MDCCLXVI [1766].
- RBC copy has 2 unnumbered 18th-century ms. leaves titled "Diary for the weather begun the first of December [written above: 1783] in St Mary's County in the State of Maryland Lat. 38° 28'" bound in at end of volume. The tail outer corner of leaf [2] has been torn off with some loss of text and mended with a blank leaf.
- RBC copy: gathering [Z] bound in before leaf Y1; leaf Z2 bound in verso first.
- RBC copy: leaf [Z]1 torn.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T98822
- Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 4635
- OCLC:
- 1334675181
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