Research Catalog

Title

A pocket book : containing severall choice collections in arithmetick, astronomy, geometry, surveying, dialling, navigation, astrology, geography, measuring, gageing / by John Seller, hydrographer to the King.

Author

Seller, John, active 1658-1698.

Publication

[London] : And are sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping and at his shoop [sic] in Pope's Head Alley in Cornhill, London, [1677?]

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Details

Description

[2], 40 p., [75] leaves of plates : ill., 5 maps; 15 cm. (8vo)

Donor/Sponsor

• Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 3036.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subjects

• Mathematics > Practice > England
• Astronomy > Early works to 1800
• Almanacs, English > Early works to 1800

Note

• Signatures: [pi]1 (engraved), A-E⁴.
• In this edition, the lunar table is dated 1678-1692.
• T.p., tables, ill., maps, and some diagrams hand col.
• Final map mounted on paper to form final leaf.

Indexed In (note)

• Variant of Wing (2nd ed., 1994)

Call Number

Map Div. 97-6224

OCLC

49507514

Author

Seller, John, active 1658-1698.

Title

A pocket book : containing severall choice collections in arithmetick, astronomy, geometry, surveying, dialling, navigation, astrology, geography, measuring, gageing / by John Seller, hydrographer to the King.

Imprint

[London] : And are sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping and at his shoop [sic] in Pope's Head Alley in Cornhill, London, [1677?]

Indexed In:

Variant of Wing (2nd ed., 1994) S2480C

Local Note

Copy in Map Div. 97-6224: ms. notes in ink and autograph of R.G. Hooke on blank face of first leaf of plates.

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Research Call Number

Map Div. 97-6224 [LHS 3036; atlas cases]