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The China Pilot, including the Coast from Canton River to
the Seas of Okhotsk & Japan, from the latest surveys, 10 6
The Australia Directory-

Vol. 1.-From Cape Leeuwin to Port Stephen,
including Bass Strait and Tasmania

Vol. 3.-From Swan River and Sydney through
Torres Straits to China

The New Zealand Pilot...

The South American Pilot

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Books of Sailing Directions (which usually accompany the Charts) for all parts of the World, from 1s. to 3s. each.

Books on Navigation, Laws of Shipping, &c.

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McCulloch's Dictionary of Commerce and Commercial
Navigation, with maps and plans.
Admiralty Manual of Scientific Enquiry by Sir J. F. W.
Herschel, Bart.

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Abbot's Treatise on the Law of Ships and Seamen £1 12 0 Norie's Epitome of Navigation, containing the most

approved methods of ascertaining the Latitude by Meridian, Single, or Double Altitudes, and the Longitude by Chronometer or Lunar Observations 16 0 Lieutenant Raper's Practice of Navigation and Nautical

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Astronomy, the most elaborate work on the subject 16 Riddle's Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, in 2 vols. 11 Griffin's Epitome of Navigation & Nautical Astronomy 12 0 Norie's Nautical Tables, containing all that are requisite, with the Nautical Almanac, in keeping a Ship's Reckoning at Sea, and in ascertaining the latitude and longitude by celestial observations, &c. .... 12 0 Norie's New Daily Assistant, exhibiting an easy method of keeping a ship's reckoning at sea; also, general rules for working a day's work; tables of latitudes and longitudes, &c... Thomson's Lunar and Horary Tables for new and concise methods of performing the calculations necessary for ascertaining the longitude by lunar observations..10 0

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Gordon's New Lunar and Time Tables The Chronometer's Companion containing methods of finding the latitude and longitude by chronometer, without any assistance from the ship's latitude, or the Nautical Almanac, together with the true Latitude 6 0 Sumner's Method of Finding a Ship's Position at Sea, from one Altitude of the Sun and the time at Greenwich, improved and simplified, including a new, short and easy method of finding the Time at the Ship and thence the Longitude by Chronometer 7 6 Towson's Tables to facilitate Great Circle Sailing, with explanatory plate.....

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Turnbull on Great Circle Sailing, with an abstract of the
formula and rules, and outline charts
Towson's Tables for Reduction of Ex-Meridian Altitudes, 1
Walker's Magnetism of Ships and Mariner's Compass,

being a rudimentary exposition of the induced mag-
netism of iron in sea-going vessels, and its action on
the compass, in different latitudes, &c.
Elementary Magnetism and the Local Attraction of Ship's
Compasses, adapted for the use of Navigators, by
George Parson, Master Mariner

Rules for ascertaining the Deviations of the Compass, which are caused by iron in the ship

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Towson on the Deviation of the Compass in Iron Ships, 3 0 The Mariner's Compass, on a card, with tables of the angles,

and how to allow the variation of the Compass.... 0 3 Lee's Laws of Shipping & Insurance, with an Appendix, containing the existing Statutes, Pilots' Regulations, &c. (new edition, 1865)

.12 6 Lees' Manual for Ship-masters, in a series of letters on their qualifications, duties, powers, responsibilities, &c. 6 0 Abbot's Treatise on the Law of Ships and Seamen £1 12 0 The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854

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The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862.... 1 0 Lorimer's Letters to a Young Master Mariner, on some subjects connected with his calling.....

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The Mercantile Commander, his Difficulties and his
Grievances, by one of the Body

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The Shipmaster's Adviser, containing valuable Correspondence from the Shipping Gazette, Admiralty Court Trials for Collision and Salvage, and Board of Trade Enquiries and Reports, by James Lawson Ridley on Losses at Sea; their causes & means of prevention 3 Brockett's Advice about Average, for Masters

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Guide Books to Marine Board Examinations,

Seamanship, &c.

Reed's New Guide Book to the Marine Board Examinations of Masters and Mates; with a list of the lights, and the bearings and distances, on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, &c.

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The Key to Reed's New Guide Book, and the Quantities from the Nautical Almanac for working the questions 2 6 Reed's Seamanship, and Young Mariner's Guide, containing Hints on the Management of a Ship at Sea, at Anchor, and Ashore; Rigging, taking in Masts, Yards, &c.; Dangers and Navigation in the English Channel; Rules for the Stowage of Cargoes; Regulations and Lights for preventing Collisions at Sea; Leading Lights on the East Coast of England, and the English, Bristol, and St. George's Channels; Definitions in Astronomy; and other useful Information; specially compiled to assist Candidates in preparing for the Marine Board Examinations Ainsley's Guide to the Marine Board Examinations. Ainsley's Examiner in Seamanship

Gordon's Examiner for the Marine Boards..

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Taylor's Handbook for the Marine Board Examinations, 3 0
Brady's Kedge Anchor, or Young Sailor's Assistant....16 0
Nares' Seamanship, with upwards of 350 illustrations 21 0
Alston's Seamanship, with 200 illustrations
Tinmouth on Seamanship

Liddell on Seamanship

Dana's Seamen's Friend, containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates; a dictionary of sea terms; laws of master and mariners, &c.

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The Anchor Watch: Tending Ship in a Tide-way, &c.. 1 0 The Mate and his Duties, containing Remarks on Discipline, Duties of the Watch, Rigging Ships, Repairing and Cutting out Sails, &c. Kipping on Masting, Mast-making, & Rigging of Ships 1 6 Art of Rigging, an explanation of the terms & method of

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Rigging; with tables of the dimensions & quantities 9 0 Kipping's Sails and Sail-making, with Draughting, and the centre of effort of the Sails; also, weights and sizes of Ropes; masting, rigging, and sails of Steam Vessels, with dimensions for Jibs, Mainsails, &c. .. 2 6

Books on the Marine Steam Engine, &c.

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The Marine Steam Engine, by Main and Brown
The Steam Engine, by Dr. Lardner, with illustrations.. 1 0
Murray on the Marine Engine
Questions on Marine Steam Engine, by Main & Brown, 5 6
The Indicator and Dynamometer, with practical applica-

tion to the Steam Engine, by Main and Brown.... 4 6 Reed's Engineers' Hand Book to the Marine Board Examinations for Certificates of Competency as First and Second Class Engineers..

Bourne's Catechism of the Steam Engine

White's Catechism of the Marine Steam Engine
Templeton's Workshop Companion

Templeton's Millwright's and Engineer's Companion
Armstrong on Steam Boilers...

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Books on Law of Storms, Stowage of Cargoes, Rates of Freight, Port Charges, &c.

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Colonel Reid's attempt to develope the Law of Storms,
by means of facts, and to point out a cause for the
variable winds, illustrated by charts and wood-cuts 12
Thom's Nature and Course of Storms...
Piddington's Sailor's Horn Book for the Law of Storms,
a practical exposition of the law of storms, shewn
by transparent storm cards, &c. .

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Birt's Hand Book of the Law of Storms
Becher's Storm Compass, or Hurricano Companion
Sedgwick's Golden Hints to Young Mariners
Maury's Physical Geography of the Sea.
Stevens on Stowage of Ships and their Cargoes, contain-
ing instructions for the stowage of every kind of
produce, with tonnage rates and proportionate
rates of freight, &c., for the East Indies, China,
Mediterranean, Baltic, &c., and other valuable
information

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The Duties of Ship Stewards, with Directions & Receipts 1 0
Waterston's Manual of Commerce, being a compendium

of Mercantile Tables, British and Foreign Monies,
and the Practice of Exchange

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Harrison's Freighter's Guide and Merchant's Assistant, with Tables of Proportionate Rates of Freight.... 5 0

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Reed's Shipowners' and Shipmasters' Handy-Book, comprising tables of the proportionate rates of Freight on coals, grain, &c.; the East India tonnage scales; tables of the comparative stowage of goods; corn measures of the different ports in Europe, proportionate rates of freight for Leghorn, Genoa, Trieste, and Marseilles; Comparative Rates of Freight on the New and Old Grain scales; Lloyd's instructions for the stowage of grain cargoes at Montreal; dimensions and contents of wine and spirit casks; Lloyd's scale of the weights of anchors, sizes of cables, &c. ; value of foreign monies in British currency, &c. .. 1 6 The Charterer's Companion, containing Tables for finding the quantity of Cargo a Ship can carry, and the Freight she will earn; also, an introduction on Freight, Charter-parties, Bills of Lading, &c.....5 0 Daniel's British Port Charges, comprising Pilotage, Har

bour, and Dock Dues, Anchorage, Pier Lights, &c. 6 Daniel's Foreign Port Charges, similar to the preceding, 8 Wilson's Time and Money Tables for calculating Seamen's

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Wages, shewing the exact rateable time in calendar months and days, from any one day in the year to another; also the amount of wages due for such periods, and at any rating from 10s. to £50 month, 7 6 Ship-Master's Exchange Calculator, for converting the Money of Hamburgh, British America, France, Holland, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Malta, Gibraltar, Ionian Islands, Turkey, and the African, East Indian, and Chinese Ports, into British Sterling

Miscellaneous Works.

Reed's General Tide Tables and Nautical Almanac, with the times of high water and the depth at the Bar of the River Wear and the Sea Outlet of the South Dock, at Sunderland; times of high water, daily, at London Bridge, Hartlepool, Tees Bar, Hull, and Yarmouth Roads; general Tide Table for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the principal ports in Europe; Tables of the Moon's Southing; Sun's Declination; and Equation of Time, with the hourly difference; and other useful information, published annually.. Haughton's Manual of Tides and Tidal Currents. Seamen's Wages Account Book

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