Tapp, John. The sea-mans kalender: or, An ephemerides of the sun, moon, and certain of the most notable fixed stars. : As also a table of the longitude and latitude of all the most eminent places of the world: first calculated by John Tap. Since corrected and inlarged, with many additions. viz. New exact tables of the north-star, new tables of 65 of the principal fixed stars; their time of coming upon the meridian every day, with their right ascension and declination, &c. With the discovery of a way to finde the long hidden secret of longitude, by Henry Bond, teacher of the mathematicks in the Bulwark near the Tower: all which are now newly calculated and corrected, and many rules and tables added, by Henry Phillippes, philo-nauticus

Folger bibliographic ID: 147159
ESTC number: R230402
Folger call number: T161.2
Folger holdings ID: 181002

Bibliographic format

quarto

General notes

Signatures: A-Z⁴ Identified as Wing T161A, reel 2373, of the UMI microfilm set "Early English books 1641-1700" Cf. Wing T161A which has "calendar" in the title With an advertisement at end

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1990-1991. Five Years of Acquisitions (catalog p. 48)

Item information about Folger T161.2

227573. Bound in half blue goatskin. Folger copy lacks movable part to diagram on p. 9, mentioned in NUC pre-1956. Provenance: Folger Library gift of the Honorable Fraser Wilkins Adopted by Fraser Wilkins, Acquisitions Night 1987

Extended title: The sea-mans kalender: or, An ephemerides of the sun, moon, and certain of the most notable fixed stars. : As also a table of the longitude and latitude of all the most eminent places of the world: first calculated by John Tap. Since corrected and inlarged, with many additions. viz. New exact tables of the north-star, new tables of 65 of the principal fixed stars; their time of coming upon the meridian every day, with their right ascension and declination, &c. With the discovery of a way to finde the long hidden secret of longitude, by Henry Bond, teacher of the mathematicks in the Bulwark near the Tower: all which are now newly calculated and corrected, and many rules and tables added, by Henry Phillippes, philo-nauticus

Longitude Navigation Nautical almanacs

author: Tapp, John, active 1596-1615
associated with: Bond, Henry
associated with: Phillippes, Henry, -1677?