[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 1757 edition of "The Mariner's Compass Rectified"

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(MARITIME) Wakeley(or Wakely), Andrew. THE MARINER’S COMPASS RECTIFIED. 
Containing Tables... With the Description and Use of Those Instruments Most in Use 
in the Art of Navigation... The Whole Revised, and Carefully Corrected... by 
William Mountaine. London: W. and J. Mount, T. Page and Son. 1757. 272pp. With 
some text woodcuts. Half-title present. Cont. calf, worn. Front free-endpaper 
lacking. Some text foxing. The volvelle (at p. 95) is present in facsimile.    
 $400.00 (trade discount allowed)
First printed in 1665, this work went through dozens of editions over the 
next 130 years. The final edition in the N.U.C. is 1794. Our 1757 date is not in 
the N.U.C.; two copies are recorded in OCLC.

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