The elements of navigation; containing the theory and practice. With the necessary tables. To which is added, A treatise of marine fortification. For the Use of the Royal Academy at Portsmouth, the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital, and the Gentlemen of the Navy. In two volumes. The second edition, with several additions. By J. Robertson, F.R.S. Head Master of the Royal Academy at Portsmouth.

All titles

• The elements of navigation; containing the theory and practice. With the necessary tables. To which is added, A treatise of marine fortification. For the Use of the Royal Academy at Portsmouth, the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital, and the Gentlemen of the Navy. In two volumes. The second edition, with several additions. By J. Robertson, F.R.S. Head Master of the Royal Academy at Portsmouth.
• Dissertation on the rise and progress of the modern art of navigation.

People / Organizations

• John Robertson (Author)
• John Nourse ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller in Ordinary to his Majesty, MDCCLXIV. [1764]

Publication year

1764-1764

ESTC No.

N50716

Grub Street ID

34764

Description

2v.(xxviii,774,76p.),tables : ill.,maps ; 4⁰

Note

With continuous pagination.

'A treatise of marine fortification' is on 76p. at end of v.2.

Includes: 'A dissertation on the rise and progress of the modern art of navigation', by James Wilson, in v.1, pp.[1]-xxviii.

Uncontrolled note

Verify pagination; Vi reports errors: pp.613-616 omitted and p.733 misnumbered "73". L also has pp.613-616 = sigs. Zz7-8 omitted, with no obvious loss of text, but has p.733 correctly numbered