PURDY, John (1773-1843). The New Sailing Directory for the Ethiopic or Southern Atlantic Ocean. [etc.]

PURDY, John (1773-1843).  The New Sailing Directory for the Ethiopic or Southern Atlantic Ocean … Third Edition, Revised and Corrected, by Alex. G. Findlay. London: Printed for R. H. Laurie, 1845. 8vo (215 x 140mm). Wood-engraved illustrations, tables, errata slip (title torn with severe loss, replaced in modern facsimile, variable spotting, staining and browning). Contemporary cloth-backed paper boards with printed label laid down on upper cover (worn and stained). Provenance: old pencil sketch of a coastal profile inscribed “Juan Fernandez” on rear pastedown. With 14 other books of related interest, namely Tables Requisite to be used with the Nautical Ephemeris, for finding the Latitude and Longitude at Sea … The Third Edition (London, 1802, preface by Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal, tables, modern calf-backed marbled paper boards), James Horsburgh’s Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, and the Interjacent Ports (London, 1809, Part I only (of 2), modern half calf), the same author’s India Directory, or Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil, and the Interjacent Ports … Third edition (London, 1826, modern cloth), C. F. Fournier’s Traité de Navigation … Quatrième Édition (Saint-Malo, 1845, tables, contemporary calf-backed boards), William Walker The Magnetism of Ships, and the Mariner’s Compass (London, 1853, original cloth, the front free endpaper inscribed, “With Commr. Walker & the Publisher’s Compliments”), New Sailing Directions for the Mediterranean Sea … A New edition, revised, and corrected to the present time, by J. S. Hobbs (London, 1854, lacks all before title, contemporary wrappers with printed label on upper wrapper, worn), William Henry Smyth’s The Mediterranean. A Memoir Physical, Historical and Nautical (London, 1854, contemporary half calf), Laurie’s Sailing Directory for the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea … New Edition (London, 1856, modern buckram backed boards preserving old printed label), J. W. Norie’s A Complete Epitome of Practical Navigation … Sixteenth (Stereotype) Edition (London, 1856, plates, contemporary calf), John Purdy’s [Memoir] Descriptive and Explanatory, of the Northern Atlantic Ocean … Twelfth Edition (London, 1865, title torn and repaired with loss, contemporary cloth), George Campbell’s Log-Letters from “The Challenger” … Third edition (London, 1877, contemporary half calf), Alexander Findlay’s A Directory for the Navigation of the South Pacific Ocean … Fourth Edition (London, 1877, folding maps, original cloth), the same author’s Memoir, Descriptive and Explanatory, of the Northern Atlantic Ocean … Fourteenth Edition (London, [n.d. but c. 1878], folding maps, original cloth, rebacked) and William Thoms’ A New Treatise on the Practice of Navigation at Sea (New York, 1894, old calf). Provenance: from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). The lot sold not subject to return. (15)