[Rarebooks] FS: Navigation in Elizabethan times

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For your consideration:
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(No. 6900 )  Waters, D[avid]. W[atkin]. (Foreword by Mountbatten of Burma).
THE ART OF NAVIGATION IN ENGLAND IN ELIZABETHAN AND EARLY STUART TIMES.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. First printing, Full cloth, Octavo,
xl, 696 pages, black & white photos, plates, drawings. Very good in an edge
worn dust jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      Definitive account of the transformation of navigation from empirical
mariner's art to fundamental science. Detailed treatment of the development
of astronomy, mathematics and hydrography as well as advances in ship
design, piloting, channel-marking, and much more. A large, rich, and well
researched volume which carries the story up to 1640. Much information on
how the early colonists reached America and how they plied their subsequent
overseas trade. Excellent bibliography, many interesting chart
reproductions. See ALBION, p. 80. This copy from the working library of
famed navigator P. V. H. Weems, with a card INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Weems
pasted to front free endpaper above Weems' bookplate. Bound in dark blue
cloth over boards with gilt and blind stamped spine. Some very slight
extremity rubs, spine slightly fallen in. Interior clean and bright but for
some minor staining to top edge of a couple of leaves from a paperclip.
Hinges sound. Jacket has fading to spine along with edge tears and chips up
to 3/4" in depth in places.    $175.00
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