“a work of extraordinary care and scientific thoroughness [which] became the standard nautical dictionary until the end of sail”
An Universal Dictionary of the Marine:
or, a copious explanation of the technical technical terms and phases...
London,
Printed for T. Cadell in the Strand,
1769
Quarto (265 by 200mm), first edition, list of subscribers, 12 folding engraved plates, a few minor tears to plates at guards, book plate of Assheton Curzon, contemporary speckled calf, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, rebacked.
1944
notes:
FIRST EDITION of "a work of extraordinary care and scientific thoroughness [which] became the standard nautical dictionary until the end of sail" (ODNB).
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bibliography:
provenance:
The first scientific plan of Prague
Hungaria 896-1918
Flinders’s survey of central New South Wales
The Battling for Buda
Prague
The scarce English edition of the Mercator/Hondius atlas in original colour
The Empire of Japan
Arrowsmith’s fine twin-hemisphere map detailing Cook’s voyages
A rare Mediterranean ‘Straights Book’
Willdey’s rare composite atlas
Salad Days
The ptolemaic world map from the first issue of Laurent Fries’ ‘Geographia’
A separately-published world map, issued prior to its inclusion in the first “atlas” to be so called
One of the largest world maps ever printed
Unrecorded separate issue, and a possible prototype
Cuba – Cardenas Bay
That is the question
‘Cotton Diplomacy’ starts to fail
An eight metre globe and the first map of the world on a uniform scale…
“Cotes conjectures”
The world unveiled
Rare Spanish edition of Gill’s celebrated Time and Tide Map
A passage to Tasmania?
Arnoldi’s separately-published map of the Americas, with the thumb print of the printer!
Globe Gores
The first ‘atlas’ 



