Marshall Rare Books
Science & Navigation
Books and charts used to navigate
Kalendarius Teütsch.
A Rare, Richly Coloured Illustrated Calendar from the Augsburg Renaissance.
The Description and Use of the Globes, and the Orrery, by which is prefixed By way of introduction, a brief account of the Solar System.
Instructions Nautiques sur les Côtes Occidentales d’Amérique, du Golfe de Penas à la Rivière Tumbez
A pilot for the west coast of South America, from southern Argentina to Ecuador, with sailing directions covering the Galapagos Islands.
An Act for rendering more effectual an Act made in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty, for promoting the Discovery of a Method for finding the Longitude at Sea
Anno Regni GEORGII III REGIS Magnae Britaniiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, DECIMO SEPTIMO. At the Parliament Begun and holden at Westminster, the…
An Act for giving a publick Reward unto such Person or Persons, being His Majesty’s Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a Northern Passage for Vessels by Sea
Anno Regni GEORGII III REGIS Magnae Britaniiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, DECIMO SEXTO. At the Parliament Begun and holden at Westminster, the…
The Sea-Man’s Practice, Containing a Fundamental Problem in Navigation Experimentally Verified; Namely Touching the Compasse of the Earthe and Sea and the Quantity of a Degree in our English Measures.
Tenth edition, woodcut initials, decorations, illustrations and tables, occasional ink notes in a contemporary hand to margins, faint stamp to title…
A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography. Or an easie and speedy way to know the USE of both the GLOBES, Celestial and Terrestrial.
This is an important work concerning geography and astronomy by the hydrographer to Charles II, Joseph Moxon (1627-1691).
Compilatio Leupoldi ducatus austrie de astrorum scientia Decem continentis tractatus.
A Fine Copy of the Second edition of the Compilatio by the 13th-century astronomer, Leopold of Austria. Primarily a work of astrology, the sixth book…
A mathematical manual or delightful associate containing a description of the celestial globe . . . terrestrial globe, … all kinds of maps etc.,
First edition, Illidge, London, 1728, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces and diagrams, Contemporary panelled calf, preserved in custom box.
A Selection of Papers on Arctic Geography and Ethnology. Reprinted and Presented to the Arctic Expedition of 1875
FIRST EDITION, text diagrams, 2 folding lithograph plates, publishers blind stamped blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, 8vo, London, Murray, 1875
Arte de Navegar, Em Que se Ensina as Regras Practicas e os modos de cartier, e de graduar a Balestilha por via de numeros, e muitos problemas uteis a navegacao e Roteiro das viagens
Lisboa, Antonia Rodrigues Galhardo, 1819, wood engraved device to title, numerous diagrams in text, rebound in brown half calf, a.e.g., new end…
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Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism Taken on Board the H.M.S. Erebus and Terror [Parts VII., IX., X., XIII., XVI., XXX]
FIRST EDITION, A Collection of Six Works From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, occasional light foxing, unbound, 4to…
Relacion del viage que por orden de su magestad, y acuerdo de el real consejo de Indias, hicieron los capitanes Bartholome Garcia de Nodal, y Gonzalo de Nodal, hermanos, naturales de Pontevedra
2nd edition, Cadiz: reimpresso por Don Manuel Espinosa de los Monteros, impressor de la Real Marina, [1766]. bound with: Echevelar (Manuel de). J. M…
Trigonometria Britannica: sive de doctrina triangulorum libri duo
FIRST EDITION, (edited by Henry Gellibrand). Gouda: Pieter Rammazeyn, 1633 folio (350 x 212mm.), half-title, complete with 272 pp. of tables…
A Collection of Maritime Coastal Charts of the Mediterranean, including Egypt, Algeria and Morocco
A Collection of 18 of Maritime Charts of the coasts of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, copper engraved, mostly double-page, many with coastal…
A Large Collection of Maritime Coastal Charts of Europe, Including the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
A Collection of 47 of Maritime Charts of Europe, copper engraved, mostly double-page, many with coastal profiles, vignettes, inset charts, former…
The Description and Use of the Globes, and the Orrery, by which is prefixed By way of introduction, a brief account of the Solar System.
Thomas Wright and Richard Cushee, 1731,8vo, Contemporary panelled calf, with 7 folding engraved plates, woodcut decoration ,woodcut initials, head-…
Observations upon the Marine Barometer, made during the Examination of the Coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the Years 1801, 1802 and 1803. By Matthew Flinders
FIRST EDITION, From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the Year MDCCCVI. Part II, pp. [239]-266, unbound, 4to, 1806.
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L’Art del Navegar In Laqual Si Contengonolere gole, dechiarationi, Secreti, & auisi, alla bon navigation necessarii.
Newes of the Complement of the Art of Navigation. And of the Mightie Empire of Cataia Together with the Straits of Anian.
The Works of Edmund Gunter: Containing the Description and the Use of the Sector, Cross-Staff , Bow, Quadrant, and other Instruments.
The Sector on a Quadrant,
Mr. Blundevil his exercises contayning eight treatises,
Blundevil his exercises containing eight treatises, the titles whereof are set down in the next printed page. Which treatises are very necessary to…
