MARINE NAVIGATION, 3 VOLUMES

i. Byrne, Oliver (1810-1880). Byrne’s treatise on navigation and nautical astronomy. London: Bentley, 1877, later edition, small 4to, 4pp. publisher’s advertisements at end, later quarter morocco preserving cloth covers, [T&W B309], some spotting and browningii. Kells, Lyman M. (1888-1980), Kern, Willis F. (1903-1959) and Bland, James R. Navigation. New York: McGraw-Hil, 1943, third impression, 8vo, original cloth, [not in T&W], some weariii. Kenney, Cyril Ernest (1898-1973). The quadrant and the quill. London: Metchim, 1947, FIRST EDITION, 4to, one of 600 copies, numerous illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, [T&W K19], binding worn

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Two volumes on navigation together with a book written in honour of Captain Samuel Sturmy, the seventeenth-century author of The Mariner’s Magazine.