A MANUSCRIPT NAVIGATION WORKBOOK AND JOURNAL, CIRCA 1812kept...

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A MANUSCRIPT NAVIGATION WORKBOOK AND JOURNAL, CIRCA 1812

kept by one T. Hugill on laid paper, navigation comprising fifty pages filled with diagrams and copperplate text, followed by an eight-page journal for a voyage from the Lizard to Madeira and back, followed by a chart of the route, signed and dated for 31st January 1812, bound in card covers with later owner's name inscribed Wm Warde, Bilsdale.. -- 14 x 8½in. (35.5 x 21.5cm.); together with another manuscript navigational workbook, circa 1811, kept by W.P. Shuckburgh, in a neat copperplate hand on laid paper watermarked for '1810' with flourish section headers, the first 150 pages numbered and including geometric examples and drawings, the second half filled with examples and exercises, vellum boards -- 13 x 8½in. (33 x 21.5cm.)

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