Practical Navigation: an Introduction to the Whole Art, 1680
John Seller, London
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The first edition was published in London in 1669. This is a very important and rare work on the art of navigation and navigational instruments.
The use of the backstaff is illustrated here.
Fourth edition, enlarged. Beautiful explanation of instruments. The work first published by Seller in 1669, “established a creditable reputation in the maritime community. The book was frequently reprinted over the years and, indeed, some thirty years later it was described as ‘the most useful book for Seamen yet extant’” (Davis & Daniel). In fact the work proved so popular that Seller’s successors Richard Mount and Thomas Page were publishing editions of the work until the mid eighteenth century. The present work bears numerous manuscript annotations to the upper and lower pastedown by the first owner Thomas Midleton (dated 1682) and a later owner John Wilson.
Due to there use at sea all such works are rare, and this is no exception. We are only able to trace four institutional examples of the present edition