Brooke, Henry

A Guide to the Stars, being an easy method of knowing the relative position of all the fixed stars from the first to the third magnitude in either hemisphere .... London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820



4to (12¼  x 9¾  in.; 311 x 248 mm, uncut).  12 engraved plates; frontispiece and title with some marginal soiling and spotting.  Later green boards, original printed label laid down on front cover; some wear to extremities, label rubbed.

Brooke's celestial guide was designed for finding longitude and latitude at sea.  The twelve charts are "on a new construction, in which the stars are exhibited as they actually appear in the heavens with relation to each other."  The author was a teacher of mathematics, geography and astronomy and served as a senior officer in the naval service of the East India Company.