Complete Mariner, 1731.

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

Email: dmayo@cwf.org

Phone: (757) 565-8521

Email: speccoll@cwf.org

Phone: (757) 565-8520

Fax: (757) 565-8528

Web: www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/research/john-d-rockefeller-jr-library

Summary

Language:

English

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.)

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Tobacco industry- - Virginia.
Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.
Navigation--Study and teaching-- Virginia.
Account books--Virginia--1731.