Rare Books

The accomplish'd sea-mans delight, : containing, 1. The great mistery of nature demonstrated by art, as the flux and reflux, increase and decrease, access and recess, ebbing and flowing of the water of the sea. 2. The closset of magnetical miracles unlocked, the properties and secrets of the loadstone revealed, serving not only for sea affairs, but also for travellers by land. 3. Directions for sea-men in distress of weather, also the right use of the magnitical [sic] needle, and how to manage the sayling compass, and the rest of the instruments of chiefest use in the art of navigation. 4. The resolver of curiossities [sic], being a profitable discourse of local, as also of the swift motion of the art of navigation. Of the due proportion to be observed in the building of ships, likewise rare inventions of several engons [sic]: with a perfect discovery of other mathematical secrets, and for their clearer explaination, are adorn'd with most significan [sic] and proper figures