Language: English
Published by International Marine Publishing Company, Camden, Maine, 1986
ISBN 10: 0877429561 ISBN 13: 9780877429562
Seller: Sea Chest Books, Tucumcari, NM, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Bauer, Nancy McCoy (illustrator). 1st Edition. Tall octavo hardcover in fine, as new condition in a fine, as new dust jacket. Navy blue cloth stamped in white on the spine. An indispensable guide for sailing, on how to use, adjust and repair many different types of sextants, new and old. Includes chapters on history of sextants, and appendixes on manufacturers and dealers of sextants, check procedures, a navigator's basic tool kit, making and using an artificial horizon, and a table of interstellar angles for practice sighting and testing. 191 pp. Navigation, Sailing, Sextants.