Process of monitoring and directing the movement of a person, craft or vehicle from one place to another

Navigation: an astrolabe, a cross-staff, and a back-staff or Davis's sextant. Drawing after Edmund Gunter, 1624.

Astronomy: a quadrant and a sextant. Engraving.

Astronomy: a diagram showing how to determine longitude. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.

Navigation: several quadrants and a sextant. Engraving.

Ship-building: five kinds of quadrant (top), and two types of telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.

Astronomy: a diagram showing how to determine latitude. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.

Navigation: a man using a Jacob's staff (cross staff), various other measuring devices at his feet. Woodcut, 16--.

Navigation: a compass, and details of its use. Engraving.

Civil engineering: a plan to improve the silted-up harbour at Rye, Kent. Engraving by Mutlow.

Ship-building: logarithmic equipment and tables. Coloured engraving by Stead, 1813.

Navigation: various navigational aids, including a quadrant and a sextant. Engraving by Barlow.

Navigation: a cross-staff or cross-bow, and a sailor using the device. Drawing after Edmund Gunter, 1624.

The Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by F. M. La Cave after W. Hogarth, 1739.

472, that is, 464 pages, 122 pages, 11 leaves including tables : illustrations, diagrams (1 folded), map, 1 folded table ; (4to)

Certaine errors in navigation detected / And corrected by Edw: Wright. [With many additions that were not in the former edition. As appeareth in the next pages. (The division of the whole art of navigation. An addition touching the variation of the compasse)].

1 volume<br/>2 leaves + 96 pages + 2 leaves 8vo. 131/2 ? 71/ ; 2 cm On vellum: modern crushed morocco binding.

Finch, Sir John (1584-1660).

v, 424 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm

The progress of the development of the law of storms, and of the variable winds, with the practical application of the subject to navigation. / by Lieut-Colonel William Reid.

Miscellany: Italian, 18th-19th centuries.

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The Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by F. M. La Cave after W. Hogarth, 1739.

Certaine errors in navigation detected / And corrected by Edw: Wright. [With many additions that were not in the former edition. As appeareth in the next pages. (The division of the whole art of navigation. An addition touching the variation of the compasse)].

Finch, Sir John (1584-1660).

The progress of the development of the law of storms, and of the variable winds, with the practical application of the subject to navigation. / by Lieut-Colonel William Reid.

Miscellany: Italian, 18th-19th centuries.

Navigation

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The Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by F. M. La Cave after W. Hogarth, 1739.

Certaine errors in navigation detected / And corrected by Edw: Wright. [With many additions that were not in the former edition. As appeareth in the next pages. (The division of the whole art of navigation. An addition touching the variation of the compasse)].

Finch, Sir John (1584-1660).

The progress of the development of the law of storms, and of the variable winds, with the practical application of the subject to navigation. / by Lieut-Colonel William Reid.

Miscellany: Italian, 18th-19th centuries.

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