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The mariner's jewel, or, A pocket companion for the ingenious : containing decimal arithmetick, extraction of the square and cube root, to know the burthen, and how to rig a ship, with an easie and exact method for all gunners, carpenters, and boat swains, whereby to know the expence of their stores every month, and what they have remaining, with proper directions for making of masts and yards according to proportion, a new list of the Royal Navy, a general pay-table for all degrees of men, an abstract of an Act of Parliament for the encouragement of seamen, a guide for pursers and stewards, the usual terms at sea explain'd, directions how to work a ship at sea, and a compendium of sea gunnery, with several other things needful to be understood by sea-faring men / by James Love, mathematician ; whereunto is added a second part, containing large instructions for steards, pursers and captain's clerks, in the Royal Navy / by J.H. who serv'd as steward and purser may years in the Navy.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection VK541 .L68 1710
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Love, James (Mathematician), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seamanship--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.
- Seamanship.
- Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.
- Arithmetic.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Penn Provenance:
- Callender, Geoffrey, 1875-1946 (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- [4], 188 pages ; 15 cm (12mo)
- Production:
- Mariner's jewel
- Other Title:
- Pocket companion for the ingenious
- Fingerprint:
- 92of 7466 .0o. 0+49 (3) 1710 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Alex. Urquhart, at the Bible in Bett's-Street, Ratcliff-High-Way, 1710.
- Notes:
- Signatures: [A]² B-H¹² I¹⁰.
- Leaves B3v and B4r wrongly imposed in each other's places.
- Title in double-ruled border.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from Antiquates Fine & Rare Books.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.
- Kislak Center copy has laid in manuscript note on letterhead of Professor Geoffrey Callender of the Department of History, Royal Naval College (Greenwich, England) and signed by him.
- Kislak Center copy: spine and front pastedown wanting.
- OCLC:
- 1343756547
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