Description: This is a reprint of an antique book written in 1854 by William Bourne. This reprint is edited by E.G.R. Taylor, issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 121, First Edition thus. Lacking dust jacket, but overall in VERY GOOD CONDITION. 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. Boards with light corner and edge wear, no interior marks of any kind, clean and solidly bound pages. A synopsis of the original author and book found online: "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 written by an Englishman. It is not simply his rules for navigation, for Bourne wrote much as he spoke, so that out of this instruction book for sailors a clear picture of the man himself emerges: serious, reliable, patriotic and with this inborn impulse to pass on his knowledge to others. The first edition of 1574 is printed here in full, with the additional material which was added to the 1580 edition. Taylor has also included two Almanackes. She has written an introductory section to each text, and in her General Introduction she fills in the details of Bourne's life and discusses his various writings." B65
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Binding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: William Bourne
Publisher: Hakluyt Society
Topic: Historical
Subject: Reference
