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
by DISTON, John
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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1785 Diston Seaman's Guide Voyages Navigation Navy Sailing Coastal Harbors Tides
John 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 mariners. The guild originated as a religious guild providing support and almshouses for the needy, and established a school for mariners in 1787.
o Letter – Robert A. Foster, Esq., 1937
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~6in X 7.25in (15.5cm x 18.5cm)
• Very rare and desirable
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Details
- Bookseller
- Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21936
- Title
- 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
- Author
- DISTON, John
- Format/Binding
- Leather; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- for the author John Diston
- Place of Publication
- Liverpool
- Date Published
- 1785
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1785 Diston Seaman’s Guide Voyages Navigation Navy Sailing Coastal Harbors Tides, rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquaria
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.