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AN ACT TO RENDER MORE EFFECTUAL AN ACT.INTITULED, AN ACT FOR PROVIDING A PUBLICK REWARD FOR SUCH PERSON OR PERSONS AS SHALL DISCOVER THE LONGITUDE AT SEA.
Published by Thomas Baskett, London, 1753
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Manuscript / Paper Collectible First Edition
Loose folio. First Edition. Quarto, [2], 399-403, [1] pages. In Good plus condition. Disbound, with light age toning and light scattered foxing. Light creasing at gutter. BB Consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversized Ephemera. In 1714, the British Parliament made an act which established a £2,000 reward for the individual who developed an accurate method of calculating longitude at sea. This 1753 act was one of several revisions or replacements of that original. 1394689. Special Collections.
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An Act to render more effectual an Act made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for providing a publick Reward for such Person or Persons as shall discover the Longitude at Sea, with regard to the making Experiments of Proposals made for discovering the Longitude; and to enlarge the Number of Commissioners for putting in Execution the said Act.
Published by printed by Thomas Baskett; and by the assigns of Robert Baskett,, London, 1753
Seller: Justin Croft Antiquarian Books Ltd ABA, Faversham, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition
First edition. The 1714 Longitude Act was established the Board of Longitude and offered monetary rewards for anyone who could find a simple and practical method for the precise determination of a ship's longitude. It was modified in several subsequent Acts, including the present, making another £2000 pounds available for experimentation and recording that John Harrison had received £1250 for his initial determinations.Though separately published with a general title for a complete sitting of Parliament, individual Acts of Parliament were paginated to be bound together in yearly volumes hence the pagination 399-403 here. Small folio (288 × 182 mm), pp. [2], 399-403, [1], including general title with woodcut arms, black letter text. Recent paper spine. An excellent copy.
