The Mariners New Kalendar: Containing the principles of arithmetic and geometry...The Courses and Distances on the Coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. And the Soundings coming into the Channel. With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours

Nathaniel Colson

London : Printed for W. and J. Mount and T. Page, 1748

[A popular book on navigation] Rebound in fine modern calf.  Blind stamped spine table, "Colson's Sea Rules".  A conserved copy, with restoration work (mostly marginal) to a number of pages.  Final two leaves defective, restoration of margins.  Title and prelim page also have conservation work to margins.  Restoration to top corner, with some loss at the margin.136 pages.  ESTC, T134825. 

Full title: "with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots. Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, Declination, and Right-Ascension. Of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed Stars. Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. A large Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, Fore-Staff and Nocturnal. The Problems of Plain-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale. A Tide Table."  

The book was reprinted, nearly annually and used extensively by British mariners.