Description:
1785 Diston Seaman's Guide Voyages Navigation Navy Sailing Coastal Harbors TidesJohn Diston's "Seaman's Guide" is a rare, 18th-century voyagers handbook filled with dozens of full-page charts. This small book contains tables with distances and compass directions from port to port and city to city all over England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, Jutland, Norway, and countless other locations in Northern Europe.
Item number: #21936
Price: $750
DISTON, John
The seaman's guide : chiefly the experience of the author: The other Parts taken from the latest and best Surveys of the English, French, Dutch, and Danes
Liverpool: Printed for the author John Diston, [ca. 1785].
Details:
• Collation: Complete with all pages
o [2], 51, [1], 20
• Provenance:
o Handwritten – Gilbert Jones Cottrill, 1797
o Letter – Percy Walkington, 1937
Warden's Clerk at the Corporation of the Hull Trinity House, which is a seafaring organization consisting of a charity for seafarers, a school, and a guild of… Read More