Large ring on stand, Nautical Quadrant on backside

3 editions 1727. 1749. 1769 of the Mariners new Kalendar

Dutch seaman's tobacco box or Dutch log by Pieter Holm with the inscription 'Recht door Zee'

Nova & accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula nautica variationum magneticarum index juxta observationes anno 1700 habitas constructa, byEdmund Halley, 1730
The compass variation was one of the possible ways to find longitude at sea!

John Dobson. London for Thomas Salkeld. Vanes are reconstructions

early winged dividers of 12 inch, probably more used for shipbuilding than for navigation

sea chart of the Channel with four inset maps of Isles of Scilly, Falmouth, Plymouth, and the Isle of Wight

First edition of important French book on navigation by Pierre Bouguer (1698-1758)

Pilot Guide of René Bougard

Work on the art of navigation by the Dutch mathematician Klaas Hendriksz. Gietermaker (1621-1699)

Made by William Clarke near Union Stairs for John Quince 1736. No vanes. Scale on 60° arc for correction of sun’s semi-diameter 63 cm

Johannes Van Keulen II, Signed and dated Dutch Cross-Staff. no vanes

Götheborg Sweden

Carte de la Mer d'Allemagne Contenant les Bancs Ilses et Costes comprises depuis Bergen et les Isles Schetland jusques au Pas de Calais. Seamap of the Northsea by Covens & Mortier. North to the left

Beautiful seamap of Flanders and Zeeland by Romeyn de Hooghe for Covens & Mortier 1721-41

Captain Collins Greenville. First accurate pilot-charts of the UK ; Fifth folio edition

Map of the Belgian coast of Eugène-Henry Fricx

First edition of this treatise on piloting, illustrated with 12 folding plates; by Alexandre Savérien (1720-1805),
a naval engineer.

Map of the Northern Atlantic Ocean by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

Early Franch dry compass by the family Roux in Marseille’

by George Adams senior

Navigation Pinn-compass Rose 18 th century. anonymous

Early French Hour-glass of 60 minutes to be used on a ship during times of stress , by the Roux Family . Normally an hour-glass of 30 minutes is used.

Lead to measure the depth of the sailing water, and to know when approaching the coast. No soul!

Navigation, Astronomical navigational instruments, Signed: Prevost Fecit, Pl. 1, Denis Diderot; M. d'Alembert: Astrolabe, Backstaff, Cross-Staff, Nocturnal and Compass
Copperprint of Navigational instruments, Prevost fecit.

English bowxwood Gunter Quadrant or Horary Quadrant to measure the altitude of the polestar or the sun, to determine your latitude at sea or time on land.

Probably English. Boxwood 1752-1800?

William Dampier uit 'Nieuwe Reystogt Rondom de Weereldt'. He was first to correctly disribe the winds and currens in the Pacific Ocean.

Pingré, Alexandre Guy

Pierre Bouguer, Nouveau traité de navigation. contenant la théorie et la pratique du pilotage [...] Revu & abrégé par M. l'abbé de La Caille de la même Académie Royale des Sciences. &c. Avec figures en taille-douce

Small Sea atlas with many Mediterranean coasts and harbours, by Jozeph Roux.

Story of the travel by George Anson around the world.
' Reize rondsom de werreld, gedaan in de jaaren 1740-1744'.
3de editie Dutch, 1765

The first nautical almanac to contain data dedicated to the convenient determination of longitude at sea.
It was the first to include tabulation of lunar distances as a tool to facilitate the determination of longitude at sea. By Nevil Maskelyne

Large separataly issued chart of the St George's Channel

A voyage around the world to explore the South Seas by John Byron

Two important navigational books bound together: The seaman's daily assistant and
A New sett of logarithmic solar tables, calculated and constructed for determining the latitude at sea. London

Tobias Mayer's tables for the lunar distance edited by the Britisch admiralty and Nevil MaskelyneAct

Georges Adams 1. Type A vernier. in Box

Map of the northern part of the North Sea with adjacant coasts of England. Holland and Flanders

This is the first and rare edition, describing France’s first voyage around the world by one of its most famous circumnavigators.

Rare second, corrected and enlarged edition (first 1762) by the mathematician and instrument maker B. Martin (1704-1782)

Thomas Ripley London for David Bartholomo Aug 23 .1774. rare Fiducial scale and wooden indexarm

3 large maps by Jefferys Thomas on canvas in morocco pull-off case: , A Chart of the British Channel, extending from Dover to the Isles of Scilly on the English Coast, and from Cape Gris-Nez to the Isle of Ouessant on the French Coast

Kopergravure

Leçons de Navigation , Dulague, Rouen 1775. French book on Navigation with 6 folding plates and the declination solar tables from 1776 till 1796

Handcoloured copperprint . Engraved for the New Geographical
Copperprint ‘ The Name Of System’
Print (Engraving) of Armillary Sphere and Planetary Systems, by R. W. Seale, for the New Geographical Dictionary, Late 18th Century

With very fine adjusting system at clamping screw. London Type A Vernier in other box

A miniature sextant by the famous Jesse Ramsden; Miniature Type B reversed VERNIER SEXTANT nr 746 + Box

Graphometer without compass in wooden box

First French editions, 16 volumes of which one atlas