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NAVAL - MANUSCRIPT EXERCISE BOOK Manuscript exercise book, c.1828-1829
1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
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NAVAL - MANUSCRIPT EXERCISE BOOK
Manuscript exercise book, written in a fine italic hand, embellished with elaborate calligraphic headings and approximately 30 ink drawings or diagrams (several full- or half-page, including "Mariners Compass", "Chart from England to the Cape Verd Islands...", several in grey watercolour wash), approximately 180pp., on paper watermarked "Allee 1828", some underlining in red ink, original vellum, soiled, folio (320 x 210mm.) c.1828-1829
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An attractively presented Georgian naval exercise book, decorated with pen, ink and wash illustrations. Exercises include "Navigation", "Log-line and Half-minute Glass", "Mariners Compass", "Plane Sailing", "Compound Plane Sailing", "Traverse sailing", "Middle Latitude Sailing", "Mercator's Sailing", "Double Altitudes", and "A Journal of a Voyage from England to Madeira in the Ship Albion... Kept by Wm. Cogar, Mate".

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