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The sea-man's grammar and dictionary, explaining all the difficult terms in navigation: and The practical navigator and gunner: in two parts. : I. Most plain and easy directions, to build, rigg, yard, and mast any ship whatsoever. With the manner of working of a ship in all weathers: --and how to manage a fight at sea:--also the charge and duty of every officer in a ship, and their shares -- and the use of the petty-tally. II. An abstract of the art of gunnery, (or shooting in great ordnance and morter-pieces): wherein the principles of that art are plainly taught, both by arithmetical calculation, and by tables ready calculated -- with the compositions for the making of several fire-works useful in war, both at sea and land. --And an apendix [sic] how by several geometrical ways to take heights, depths, and distances, accessible or inaccessible. (1699)

Smith, John, 1580-1631 · London; : Printed for R. Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill, · leaf 171

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Navigation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc · Masts and rigging -- Handbooks, manuals, etc · Naval architecture -- Handbooks, manuals, etc · Naval gunnery -- Handbooks, manuals, etc · Naval art and science -- Handbooks, manuals, etc · Catalogs, Booksellers' -- Great Britain -- 1699 · Imprint 1699

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