Description
Manuscript entitled "Navigation", approx. 154 pages, c. 1791, full account of all aspects of navigation, hand coloured compass device on first page, further illustrations of the poles, latitudes and aspects of sailing, two hand coloured manuscript folding charts "A Mercator's chart from Lat. 30 to 60N and from Long. 10E to 28 West. Drawn by Joseph Wilson," the second "A plane chart", leaves loose, some chipping to edges
Footnote
Note: This manuscript may possibly be the work of J. Breckon, as it contains in the text A journal of a voyage by God's permission in the Henry of Whitby A.B. Commander from start... to the island of Madeira... kept by J. Breckon began November 17th 1791.