A REGIMENT FOR THE SEA and other writings on navigation by Bourne, William - 1963

London: Hakluyt Society, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Sl/worn and Chipped. 8vo. pp. xxxxv, (1), 464, b/w plates and sketch illustrations.

London/Cambridge University Press: The Hakluyt Society/Cambridge University Press, 1963 Hardcover, (Pastel blue cloth with gilt titles and gilt device decorating front and rear covers), Frontispiece, Fold-out maps, illustrations and navigational diagrams throughout. (xxxiv) + 464pp. Unopened. Top edge trimmed, others uncut.Tight. No names or other markings. An important contribution to a scholory study of methods, tools, almanac's utiilsed by early explorers in navigating the sea. No D/j. Fine.

US: Cambridge University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/No DJ. The Hakluyt Society reprint 1961. Series II. Vol 121. Pages are clean, no markings from previous owners. Foldout map intact. Boards are clean. Binding is square and tight. Faint wear to cloth at spine ends and corners. Text block is clean. No dust jacket. PICTURES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.

xxxv+464 pages 12 plates, including frontispiece, 5 maps, one of which folds out, appendixes, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover edges blind stamped in original jacket. Edited by E G R Taylor. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 121. First edition.William Bourne, of Gravesend, by trade a gunner, was a successful writer of a new type of textbook. Neither a scholar not of gentle birth, both of which were regarded as the prerequisites of authorship in the sixteenth century, when scientific books were expected to appear only in universities and to be read only by those fluent in Latin, Bourne nevertheless produced a whole series of technical manuals, written in English for the artisans and craftsmen of his own class. A Regiment for the Sea, which forms the core of the volume, is perhaps the earliest technical manual… Read More

Cambridge: Hakluyt / Cambridge U. P., 1963. 1st edition. Nice Copy. octavo. dust jacket xxxv + 464pp., b/w pls., text ills., fldg. maps, appends., index, Mainly concerned with A Regiment for the Sea, originally published in 1574 & the earliest technical manual written by an Englishman. Dust jacket a little worn o/w nice copy