NEWHOUSE, Daniel (dates unknown). The Whole Art of Navigation, London, 1718, 4to, half title, 2 engraved folding charts, illustrations, diagrams and tables, contemporary half calf (rather worn). The Fourth Edition. RARE.

NEWHOUSE, Daniel (dates unknown).  The Whole Art of Navigation: Containing the Application of Geometry and Astronomy to the Practice of Plain and Mercator's Sailing, both performed either with, or without the Logarithms. The Description and Use, at large, of the most necessary Instruments for Observations at Sea. The Explanation of Sea-Terms in an Alphabetical Order. The Method of finding the Variation of the Compass by the Sun's Azimuth and Amplitude; as also keeping a Sea-Journal, and the several Ways of Correcting the Dead Reckoning, &c. With the most Useful Tables in Navigation. The Whole delivered in a very Easy and familiar Stile, by Way of Dialogue between a Tutor and his Scholar. The Fourth Edition, Corrected. London: "Printed for Richard Mount in Postern-Row on Tower-Hill," 1718. 4to (223 x 178mm). Half title with publisher's advertisement on the verso, 2 engraved folding charts, illustrations, diagrams including 2 full-page, tables (some mainly marginal spotting and staining which is more pronounced to the tables towards the end, a few darker spots, one folding chart spotted, hole to upper fore-corner of title with slight loss to woodcut borders, small holes to 3 leaves near the end with very slight loss of letters, a few short tears without loss, final leaf with more significant tears without loss, catchword cropped at foot of O2 [p.99], a few other leaves with running title borders shaved). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, remnants of an old paper label on the spine (rather worn and scruffy, joints split, spine frayed and repaired, some staining, corners heavily rubbed). Provenance: "Daniel Earls [sic] Book" (old inscription on half title); "Daniel Earls Book 1800" (inscription to title). The first edition, published in 1685, is very rare, as is this fourth edition, of which we have been unable to find a single record. Some copies of other editions are recorded as having a frontispiece or "additional engraved title", as, for instance, in the copy in the Wellcome Collection, printed in 1698: the present copy has neither, and nothing to suggest it ever did. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.) N922. RARE.