Complete Mariner, 1731.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Colonial Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Douglas Mayo
Phone: (757) 565-8521
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Restrictions:

There are no restrictions.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Librarian/ Associate Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the holder of the copyright, if not the Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg.

Preferred citation:

Complete Mariner, Manuscript MS 31.2, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Complete Mariner, Manuscript MS 31.2, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Background

Scope and content:

Manuscript treatise or classroom notes on navigation with printed title page: The Complete Mariner: or a Treatise of Navigation Trigonometrically, by Logarithmetical Numbers, and the Geometrical Construction by Scale and Compass. Also, the Orthographic Projection of the Sphere Astronomically. Williamsburg; Printed February the 18th, 1731 [by William Parks], E[x] L[ibris] James Hubard. Also includes "Tobacco ships in Caps [?] Clark 1765," with a list of the number of hogsheads received from James Hubard, Sr., John Clayton, Sr., Dr. George Johnston, Thomas Walker, and Thomas Whiting; and a memorandum on the debt of Mordacai Booth.

Acquisition information:
Purchase, 1931.
Physical description:
1 item (58 p. ; 38 x 25 cm.)