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Navigation-Early Books, 1732-1764.

Traité général des manoeuvres des vaisseaux, contenant les proportions des mâts & vergues.. Havre de Gráce: Veuve de G. Gruchet, 1732. 176 p., 2 l. 12°.

Wright (Robert). New and Correct Tables of the lunar motions, according to the Newtonian theory: As it is truly freed from all Errors of the Press. Manchester: Printed by R. Whitworth, for the Author, 1732. viii, xii, 13-100 p. 4°.

"These Books in Quarto, bound up together, one for finding the Moon's Place by Observation, the other by Calculation, make a complete System of all that is yet wanting in Navigation."-Note on title-page.

Hadley (John). A spirit level to be fixed to a quadrant for taking a meridional altitude at sea, when the horizon is not visible. (Philosoph. Transac. v. 38, pp. 167-172. London, 1733.)

Le Cordier. Instruction des pilotes... Par feu M. Le Cordier, Hydrographe du Roy. Derniere edition, Revûë & corrigée par J. Le Cordier, Prêtre, aussi Hydrographe du Roy à Dieppe. Havre de Grace: Guillaume Gruchet, 1734. 4 p.l., 188 p., 61. 3 p.l., 188 p., 3 l. 2 v. in I. 16°.

In v. 2, verso of last leaf after p. 188 has "Catalogue des Livres & Cartes Marine imprimez chez la Veuve de Guillaume Gruchet, Imprimeur & Marchand Libraire au Havre de Grace, & qui se trouvent dans sa Boutique."

1. ed. noted above under 1683.

Gonzalez de Ureña (Juan). Delineacion de lo tocante al conocimiento del punto de longitud del globo...y de la causa de las crecientes, y menquantes del mar... Madrid: D. M. de Peralta, 1740. 8 1., 368 p., 2 diagrams. 4°.

Smith (Caleb). The description, use, and excellency of a new instrument, or sea quadrant, invented by Caleb Smith, for taking altitudes of the sun, moon, and stars, from the visible horizon (as well as any other angular distances at land or sea) without impediment or interruption from the ship's motion, whereby the latitude at sea may be obtained ... London: To be had of the Inventor, at his Office for Insuring Ships and Merchandize, in CastleAlley [1740?]. 24 p., I pl. 8°.

American (The) traveller; being a new historical collection... from original memoirs... containing...the rise, progress...of navigation, the use... of the loadstone... London: J. Fuller, 1743. I p.l., 398 p., 3 pl., I port. 4°.

Mountaine (William). The seaman's vademecum, and defensive war by sea, containing the proportions of rigging, masts and yards... &c... London: W. Mount & T. Page, 1744. I p.l.,v-ix, (1), 1 l., 262 p., 3 pl. nar. 16°.

London, 1761. 12°.

Saverien ( ). Nouvelle theorie de la manœuvre des vaisseaux, a la portée des pilotes. Par M. Saverien, Ingenieur de la Marine. Paris: Veuve d'André Knapen & Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1745. 8 p.l., 180, xx p., 3 l., 12 pl. 12°. Mandillo (Jean-Baptiste). Extrait du livre de la parfait navigation par la latitude, et la longitude ... Paris: Antoine Boudet, 1746. 2 p.l., 44 P., 2 pl. 12°.

Euler (Leonhard). Scientia navalis. Petropoli, 1749. 2 v. 4°.

Bouquer (Pierre). Nouveau traité de navigation, contenant la théorie et la pratique du pilotage.

Paris: Hippolyte-Louis Guerin & Louis-Francois Delatour, 1753. xxiv, 442 p. 15 pl. 4°.

An earlier edition noted under 1706, and a later one under 1781.

Murray (Mungo) A treatise on ship-building and navigation. In three parts... To which is added by way of appendix, an English abridgment of another treatise on naval architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel... London: the Author, 1754. 8 p.l., 268, 74, 2 l., 70 p., 18 pl.

sq. 4°.

Bouquer (Pierre). De la manœuvre des vaisseaux, ou traité de méchanique et de dynamique; Dans lequel ou réduit à des solutions très-simples les Problêmes de Marine les plus difficiles, qui ont pour objet le mouvement du Navire. Paris: H. L. Guerin & L. F. Delatour, 1757. 2 p.l., xxx, 520 p., 15 pl. 4°.

Earlier editions noted under 1706 and 1753, and a later edition under 1781.

Hudiq (H.) Oratio de rei nauticæ, in primis Batavicæ, utilitate et commodis. Gouda, 1757. 24 p., 4 1. 8°.

Vdemans (Willems), jr. Korte Verhandeling van den Nederlandschen Scheepbouw... Middleburg, Amsterdam: Gedrukt voor dem Autheur, 1757. 7 p.l., 79 p., 20 l. 4°. Berthelot (

), Sieur. Traité de navigation. 6. ed. Marseille: Antoine Favet, 1759. 6 p.l., 272 p. 12°.

1. ed. apparently issued in 1701.

Le Royer (J.) Causæ fluxus et refluxus maris, ventorum, et febris intermittentis. Paris, 1760. 24°.

Abel (Thomas). Subtensial plain trigonometry, wrought with a sliding-rule, with Gunter's lines: and also arithmetically...Apply'd to navigation and surveying... Philadelphia: printed...for the author by A. Steuart, 1761. 2 p.l., 86 p., 7 pl. 4°.

Maskelyne (Nevil). A letter from Nevil Maskelyne to Thomas Birch: containing the results of observations of the distance of the moon from the sun and fixed stars, made in a voyage from England to the island of St. Helena, in order to determine the longitude of the ship from time to time; together with the whole process of computation used on this occasion. (Philosoph. Transac. v. 52, pp. 558-577. (no. 93.) London, 1762.)

Methodus nova inveniendi longitudines locorum terra marique per lunam. [Anon. Leipzig, 1764 or 1771.] pl. sq. 8°.

[Charnières ( ) de.] Mémoire sur l'observation des longitudes en mer, publié par ordre du roi. Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1767. I p.l., xvj, 112 p., 3 pl. 8°.

Expériences sur les longitudes, Faites à la Mer en 1767 & 1768. Publiées par ordre du roi. Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1768. xiv, 72 p. 8°.

Théorie et pratique des longitudes en mer, publiées par ordre du roi. Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1772. I p.l., xvi, 260 p., 5 pl. 8°.

Bezout (Etienne Louis). Cours de mathématiques à l'usage des gardes du pavillon et de la marine, avec les suites. Paris, 1764-69. 6 v. 8°. Nouvelle édition. Paris, 1770-81.

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Navigation-Early Books, 1768-1783.

Pingré (). Journal du voyage de M. le Marquis de Courtanvaux, Sur la Frégate l'Aurore, pour essayer par ordre de l'Académie, plusieurs Instrumens relatifs à la Longitude. Mis en ordre par M. Pingré, Chanoine régulier de Ste. Geneviève, nommé par l'Académie pour coopérer à la vérification des dits Instrumens, de concert avec M. Messier, Astronome de la Marine. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1768. 1 p.l., viii, 316, (3) p., 5 pl., map. 4°.

Amman (C.) Quadrans astronomicus novus descriptus et examinatus...Augusta Vindelicorum, 1770. 91 p., 3 pl., 1 tab. 4°.

Exposition des moyens les plus faciles de résoudre plusieurs questions dans l'art de la navigation; et démontrés á l'aide des principes de géométrie élémentaire; avec une table des sinus verses et de leurs logarithmes. Paris: Saillant & Nyon, 1772. I p.l., viij, 96 p., (25) l., 1 pl. 12°.

Berthoud (F.) Eclaircissemens sur l'invention, la théorie, la construction, et les épreuves des nouvelles machines proposées en France, pour la détermination des longitudes en mer par la mesure du temps...Paris: J. B. G. Musier, 1773. viii, 164 p.

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Fleurieu (C. P. Claret de), Count. Voyage fait par ordre du roi en 1768 et 1769, à différentes parties du monde, pour éprouver en mer les horloges marines inventées par M. Ferdinand Berthoud. Paris: Imp. Royal, 1773. 2 v. 4°.

Lous (C. C.) Tentamina experimentorum ad compassum perficiendum et unicuique usui tam nautico quam terrestri accomodandum. Hafnia: Soc. Typographica, 1773. I p.l., 130 p., 8 pl. 4°.

New (A) set of Logarithmic Solar Tables, calculated and constructed for determining the latitude at sea, by taking two altitudes either in the Forenoon or Afternoon, with the intermediate time, by a common Watch; and that with Ease and Accuracy, independent of the Sun's meridional Altitude... To which is added, A complete theory, Illustrating the Rationale of this most useful Discovery. London: J. Mount and T. Page, 1773. 4. ed. 38 p. 4°.

"These Table [sic] were offered to us by Mr. Richard Harrison who assures us in the strictest Manner, that he obtained them in Manuscript from a Hollander, and that they have never been published." p. 2.

Berthoud (Ferdinand).

Les longitudes par la mesure du temps, ou méthode pour déterminer les longitudes en mer, avec les secours des horloges marines. Suivie du Recueil des Tables nécessaires au Pilote pour réduire les Observations relatives à la Longitude & à la Latitude. Paris: J. B. G. Musier, 1775. 1 p.l., iv, 90, 34 P., I pl. 4°. Haselden (Thomas). The seaman's Daily Assistant, being a Short, Easy, and Plain Method of keeping a journal at sea; In which are contained rules shewing How the Allowances for Leeway, Variations, Heave of the Sea, Set of Currents, &c. are to be made, and to correct the Dead-Reckoning

by an Observation, in all Cases: And also all the Tables that are any Ways necessary for the Seaman's Use in keeping a journal. London: J. Mount & T. Page, 1775. 4 p.l., 160 p. 4°.

Euler (Leonhard). Theorie complete de la construction et de la manoeuvre des vaisseaux. Paris, 1776. nouv. ed. 4 p.l., 268 p., 6 pl. 12°. Levèque (P.) Tables générales de la hauteur et de la longitude du nonagésime, calculées pour toutes les latitudes terrestres. Avignon, 1776. 2 v. 8°.

Vel-instruerede (Den) Skipper, eller fuldstændig Anviisning, hvad en Skipper har at iagttage, baade förend han tiltræder Reysen, samt imedens den varer, og efterat den er fuldent, med et Tillæg hvorudi indeholdes de fornemste söecontractor, Skibs-Documenter, og andre for de Söefarende Negotierende nyttige Efterretninger.. Kiöbenhavn: Friderich Christian Pelt, 1776.

4 p.l., 544 p. 16°.

Chierlin (L. A.) Sjömäns dagelige assistent. Stockholm, 1777. 4°.

Degaulle (J. B.)

Construction et usage d'un

nouveau compas azimutal à reflexion... Havre: P. J. D. G. Faure, 1779. vii, 52 p., I pl. 8°.

Bouguer (Pierre). Nouveau traité de navigation, contenant la théorie et la pratique du pilotage Revu and Abrégé par M. l'Abbé De la Caille... Nouv. ed. Paris: Veuve Desaint, 1781. xxxij, 376 p., (49) 1., 13 pl. 8°.

Earlier editions noted under 1706, 1753, 1757, 1781.

Garra de Salagoïty (J.) Elémens de la science du navigateur. Par M. l'Abbé Garra de Salagoïty, Professor d'Hydrographie à Bayonne... Paris: L. Cellot, 1781. 2 p.l., xij, 184 p., I pl.; xij, 203 p., 2 pl. 12°.

Maskelyne (Nevil). Tables requisite to be used with the Nautical Ephemeris, for finding the latitude and longitude at sea. Published by order of the commissioners of longitude. The second edition, corrected and improved. London: Printed by Wiliam Richardson, in the Strand and sold by C. Nourse in the Strand, and Mess. Mount & Page, on Tower Hill, 1781. vi, (2), 173 p., I l., 64 p., 2 1. 8°.

Blondel (Guillaume), Sieur de Saint Aubin. Le véritable art de naviguer par le quartier de réduction, avec lequel on peut réduire les courses des vaisseaux en mer, & enrichi de plusieurs raretés qui n'ont pas encore été découvertes. Revû, corrigé & augmenté. Derniere édition. Au Havre de Grace: Chez [?] D. G. Faure, 1783. 2 p.l., 172 p. 12°.

An earlier edition is noted under 1713.

Juan y Santacilla (Jorge). Examen maritime, théorique et pratique, ou traité de méchanique, appliqué à la construction et à la manœuvre des Vaisseaux & autres Bâtiments. Par Don Georges Juan. . Chef d'Escadre des Armées Navales de Sa Majesté Catholique... Traduit de l'Espagnol, avec des additions, par M. Levéque, Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine. Nantes: l'Auteur, 1783. xij, 396, 12 p., 5 pl.; I p.l., 364, 14 p., 8 pl. 4°. Blondeau ( ) and H. S. V. de CLAIRBOIS. Marine. Paris, 1783-7. 3 v. 4°. (Encyclopedie Methodique.)

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Navigation-Early Books, 1785-1800.

La Coudraye, Chevalier de. Dissertation sur l'observation de la longitude à la mer, dans laquelle on se propose de rendre intelligible à tous les marins la méthode des distances de la lune au soleil... Bordeaux: Pallandre l'aîné, 1785. 8°.

Borda (Ch. de). Description et usage du cercle de réflexion... Paris, 1787. 4°.

Boscovich (Roger Joseph). Abris der Astronomie, mit Rücksicht auf ihre Verbindung mit der Schiffahrt. Aus dem Französischen. Leipzig: Paul Gotthelf Kummer, 1787. 4 p.l., 93 (1) p., 1 l.,

2 folded 1. 12°.

Lassale (L. D.) Cours d'hydrographie, ou de navigation, Professé à Paris, & mis à la portée de tous les Navigateurs. A Londres, Et se trouve à Paris, chez Royez, 1787. xvi, viii, 266 p., 7 pl.; 2 p.l., 220 p., 1 l., I folded 1., 63 p., 2 pl. 12.

Maskelyne (Nevil). Concerning the latitude and longitude of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich; with remarks on a memorial of Cassini de Thury. London, 1787. 4°.

Romme (Charles). L'art de la marine, ou, Principes et préceptes généraux de l'art de construire, d'armer, de manoeuvrer et de conduire des vaisseaux. Paris: Barrois, 1787. 2 p.l., 588 p., I l., 7 pl. 4°.

Differs from the Rochelle edition only in the lining of the title-page, the text of the two issues being printed from same composition.

On verso of title of Paris issue is a list of 18 titles of books on navigation for sale by Barrois.

Rochelle: P. L. Chauvet, 1787. 2 p.l.,

588 p., 1 l., 7 pl. 4°.

Pellizer (Joseph Emanuel). Memoir for the correction of time, shewing a new system of the universe, invented by P., who intends to give his manner of finding weight and measure, with an easy manner of correcting the longitude at sea and land. 17 p. [London? 1790?] 8°.

Shipmaster's assistant and owner's manual, containing complete information to merchants, masters of ships, and officers in the R. Navy. London: D. Steel, 1790. 3. ed. 8°.

Brodhagen (D.) Verschied-bekannten Method z. Bestimmung d. Länge u. Breite besonders in Rücksicht des Seemans. Hamburg, 1791. 4°.

Ciscár (Francisco). Reflexiones sobre las máquinas y maniobras del uso de á bordo ordenadas por Don Francisco Ciscár, teniente de navio de la real armada. Madrid: En la Imprenta real, 1791. xxxii, 386, 23 p., 23 pl. fo.

Lassale (L. D.) Hydrographie démontrée et appliquée à toutes les parties du pilotage. Paris, 1792. 8°.

Nichelson (William). A treatise on practical navigation and seamanship, with Remarks, Observations, and Directions for managing and conducting a Ship...and also a full...description of the English Channel...with whatever is necessary for the Seaman to know by way of Improvement. To make ships and the management of them, and also navigation in general more perfect... London: The author, 1792. (2) xliv, 328 p., I pl. 4°. Dulagne (V. F. J. N.) Leçons de navigation. Rouen, 1793. 4. ed. pl. 8°.

Lalande (Jerome). Abrégé de navigation, historique, théorique et pratique. Paris, 1793. 4°. Margetts (George). Longitude tables for correcting the effect of parallax and refraction on the distance observed between the moon and the sun, or a fixed star...London [1793]. pl. f°.

Patterson (Robert). A new table of latitude and departure, for every degree and five minutes of the quadrant, and for every point and quarter of the compass; with a full explanation... [Philadelphia:] Stewart and Cochran, 1794. 6 p.l., 7-30 p. 16°.

Bohnenberger (J. G. F.) Anleitung zur geographischen Ortsbestimmung vorzüglich vermittelt des Spiegelsextanten. Göttingen: Vandenhök & Ruprecht, 1795. viii, 5 l., 514 pp., 7 pl. 8°.

ANMERKUNGEN zu Bohnenberger's Geographischer Ortsbestimmung und den Astronomischen Jahrbüchern. Berlin, 1816 ? 2 V. f°.

Manuscript. Original published in 1795.

Roswall (Fabian Casimir). En sjömans dageliga hjelpreda, Eller Korrt Sammandrag Af En Practisk Theori uti Styrmans-Konsten. Stockholm: Tryckt hos Johan Pehr Lindh, På Kongl. Krigs-Academiens bekostnad, 1796. 5 p. l., 158 p. (108) 1., 4 pl. 8°.

4. ed. noted below under 1824.

Swinden (J. H. van). Verhandeling over het bepaalen der lengte op zee, door de afstanden van de maan tot de zon, of vaste sterren . . . 3. vermeerderde druk, uitgegeeven op last van het Comité tot de Zaaken van de Marine. Amsterdam, 1796. 8°.

Berzout (Etienne Louis). Cours de mathématiques à l'usage de la marine et d'artillerie, revue et augmenté par Peyrard. Paris, 1798-9. 3 v. 8°.

Cassini (Jean Dominique). Description d'une nouvelle boussole propre à déterminer avec la plus grande précision la direction et la déclinaison absolue de l'aiguille aimantée. Lu le II floréal an 7. 4°. (Academie de France.)

Venturi (G. B.) Description of the longitude scale. (In his: Experimental enquiries. London, 1799. 4°.)

Williams (Jonathan). Thermometrical navigation: a series of experiments, tending to prove that by ascertaining the relative heat of the seawater... the passage of a ship through the Gulph Stream... may be discovered in time to avoid 8°. danger... Philadelphia, 1799. chart.

Hadley (John). The nature and use of Hadley's quadrant; and a description of the nonius. [Imperf.] London, 1800. 8°.

Moore (J. H.) The new practical navigator... containing the different methods of working the lunar observations and all the... tables used with the nautical almanac... the whole exemplified in a journal kept from England to the Island of Teneriffe... I, Am. from the 13. Eng. ed.... rev. and corr. by a skillful...navigator [Edmund M. Blunt] Newburyport: E. M. Blunt, 1800. vi-xii, 13570 p., 7 pl. 2. ed. 8°.

Romme (Charles). La science de l'homme de mer, ou Principes d'Arithmétique, de Géometrie, d'Astronomie & de Méchanique, dont l'application est nécessaire & utile à l'Art de la Marine.

Im

Navigation-Early Books, 1800-1809.

primé chez P. L. Chauvet, à la Rochelle; Et se vend à Paris, chez Barrois l'ainé [1800]. I p.l., xjv, 611 (3) p., 3 pl. 8°.

On verso of bastard title is an "Extrait du Catalogue des Livres qui retrouvent chez Barrois, l'ainé," 25 titles, relating to navigation and allied sciences.

Rios (J. de Mendoza). Tables for facilitating the calculations of nautical astronomy... London, 1801. 4°.

Second edition noted below under 1809.

Borda (Ch. de). Description et usage du cercle de reflexion.... 2. ed. Paris, An XI, (1802.) 4°.

Bowditch (Nathaniel). The improved practical navigator; containing all necessary instruction for determining the latitude by various methods, and for ascertaining the longitude by lunar observations, in a complete Epitome of Navigation...to which is added a number of new tables... Origi nally written and calculated by Nathaniel Bowditch ... revised, re-calculated, and newly arranged, by Thomas Kirby. London: James and John Hardy, and David Steel, 1802. 4, v-xvi, 17-22 p., I l., 1-304 p., (126) 1. 8°.

The new American practical navigator: being an epitome of navigation, containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical almanac, in determining the latitude; and the longitude by lunar observations; and keeping a complete reckoning at sea: illustrated by proper rules and examples, the whole exemplified in a journal kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all the rules of navigation are introduced... Newburyport, (Mass.): Edmund M. Blunt, May 1807. 2. ed. xiv, 15-679 p., 10 pl. (no. 6 lacking). 8°.

New York: E. M. Blount, and Samuel Burtus, Aug. 1817. 1. stereotype (4.) edition. xiv, 1 l., 274, 280, 555-597 p., 12 pl. 8°.

New York: Published by Edmund M. Blunt, proprietor, and author of the American coast pilot, for William Hooker, No. 202 WaterStreet. J. Seymour printer, 1821. 5. stereotype edition. xiv, I 1., 272, 9-296, 555-594 P., 12 pl. 8°.

New York: E. & G. W. Blunt, 1836. 8. stereotype ed. xv, (i), 288, 298, 571618 p., 12 pl. 8°.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. I p.l., 8, iii-xix (i), 289, 460 p., 14 pl. 8°.

Copyright became property of the United States Government under provision of an act of Congress to establish a Hydrographic Office in the Navy Department, approved June 21, 1866.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1876. I p.l., 8, iii-xix (1), 289, 515 p., 14 pl. 8°.

The American practical navigator, being an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy. Revised by order of the bureau of navigation, navy department. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883. xiv, 647 p., 8 pl. 8°.

Revision was made by Commander P. H. Cooper, U. S. N., certain chapters being contributed by Lieuts. Richard Wainwright and Charles H. Judd, U. S. N., the whole being reviewed by Capt. Ralph Chanler, U. S. N.

Revised in 1880, under the direction of the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, by Commander P. H. Cooper, U. S. Navy. Revised

in 1903, under the direction of the Bureau of Equipment, Navy Department, by Lieut. G. W. Logan, U. S. Navy. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903. 652 p. 8°.

Revised in 1880, under the direction of the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department. Revised in 1903, under the direction of the Bureau of Equipment, Navy Department. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906. 652 p. 8°. (U. S. Hydrographic Office. No. 9.)

"This edition is a reprint of the revised edition, 1903, with no change made in the text or tables of that edition except the correction of such errors as have been discovered in it to the present date."-p. 4.

Roswall (Fabian Casimir). Konungens stabsadjutants och riddarens Fabian Casimir Rosvalls Försök till Hjelpreda för Nybegynnare i skeppsStockholm: Carl Delén, 1803. 5 p.l., 8°.

manövern.

222 p., 5 pl.; 8 p.l., 206 p., 1 l., 5 pl. 2 v.

Schubert (F. T.) Anleitung zu der astronomischen Bestimmung der Länge und Breite. St. Petersburg, 1803. 4°.

Reboul (A. J.) Notes et additions aux trois premières sections du Traité de navigation de Bezout. Paris, 1804. pl. 8°.

The only edition of Bezout's "Traité " noted in the catalogues of the British Museum or the Bibliothèque National is the "Nouvelle édition ... par M. de Rossel," Paris, 1814. There is no copy of the work in the New York Public Library.

Andrew (J.) Astronomical and nautical tables, with precepts for finding the longitude and latitude of places... London, 1805. 8°.

Burke (Edward D.) A key to practical navigation... Baltimore: Wane & Murphy, 1805. 16 p. 8°.

Prony (G. C. F. M. R. de). Mémoire sur le calcul des longitudes et des latitudes. Paris, 1806.

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Romme (Charles). Tableaux des vents, des marées, et des courans sur toutes les mers du globe, avec des reflexions sur ces phénomènes. Paris: L. Duprat-Duverger, 1806. 2 v. 8°.

Suzanne (P. H.) Elémens de la manœuvre des vaisseaux. Paris, 1806. 8°.

Brarens (Heinrich). System der praktischen Schifferkunde. Friedrichstadt, 1807. pl. 16°.

Mackay (Andrew). (B. B. Hopkins & Co.'s premium edition of) the Complete Navigator; or an easy and familiar guide to the theory and practice of navigation. With all the requisite tables, &c., &c. Illustrated with engravings. To which

is added, a concise system of calculations for finding the longitude at sea, by the lunar observations by P. Delamar. Philadelphia: Published by B. B. Hopkins & Co., and sold by W. P. Ferrand, no. 170, Market-street, Printed by T. & G. Palmer, 1807. xxiii, (1), 275, (1), 40, 220 p., 7 pl. 8°. Du Bourguet (J. B. E.) Traité de navigation. Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1808. xvi, 494 p., 3 pl., 2 tables.

4°.

Gower (Richard Hall). Treatise on the theory and practice of seamanship, together with a system of naval signals... London: Wilkie & Robinson, 1808. xxvii, (1) 242 p., 1 l. illus. 3. ed. 8°. Rios (J. de Mendoza). A complete collection of tables for navigation and nautical astronomy... 2. ed. London, 1809. 4°.

First edition noted above under 1801.

Navigation-Early Books, 1811-1837.

Liddel (Robert). The seaman's New VadeMecum; containing a practical essay on naval bookkeeping... and complete instructions in the duty of a captain's clerk... &c. London: Steel & Co.,

1811. xvi, 554 p. 5. ed. 8°.

Bennett (Samuel). A new explanation of the ebbing and flowing of the sea, upon the principles of gravitation. New Yorh: the author, 1816. viii, 9-79 P., I pl. 8°.

Bain (William). An essay on the variation of the compass... with practical observations and remarks. Edinburgh, 1817. 8°.

Bowditch (Nathaniel). The new American practical navigator. New York, 1817. See under 1802 above.

Day (Jeremiah). The mathematical principles of navigation and surveying, with the mensuration of heights and distances. Being the fourth part of A course of mathematics, adapted to the method of instruction in the American colleges. New Haven: Steele and Gray, 1817. 2 p.l., 108 p., 6 1. I pl. 8°.

Laplace (P. S. de). Mémoire sur le flux et le reflux de la mer. Paris, 1818. 4°.

Lever (Darcy). The young sea officer's sheet anchor; or, A key to the leading of rigging and to practical seamanship. With an appendix... London: J. Richardson [1819]. xii, 1 l., 124 p. 2. ed. 4°.

Pratica del manovriere navale, ad uso della marina mercantile del regno delle Due Sicilie. Edizione 2a napolitana, dopo quella di Palermo del 1815, accresciuta. Napoli, 1819. 8°. (Bibl. del nav. merc., v. 2.)

Compendio di navigazione ad uso della marina mercantile del regno delle Due Sicilie. Napoli, 1819. 8°.

Bywater (J.) Observations on the deviation of the compass, with illustrative remarks on its magnetic principles... London: Longman, Hurst & Co., 1820. I p.l., 46 p., I plan. 8°.

Bowditch (Nathaniel). The new American practical navigator. New York, 1821. See above under 1802.

Hoené-Wronski (J.) Pétition au Parlement britannique sur la spoliation d'un savant étranger par le Bureau des longitudes de Londres. Londres, 1822. 8°.

Deposition made... by an ecclesiastic [F. Nolan] to attest the spoliation of a learned foreigner [Hoëne Wronski] by the British Board of Longitude. London: D. S. Maurice, 1822. 8 p. 8°.

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