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On astronomical navigation

ALCALA-GALIANO, D. Dionisio.
Memoria sobre las observaciones de latitud y longitud en el mar, por d. Dionisio Alcala-Galiano, capitan de navio de la Real Armada.

With 7 folding engraved plates with tables.

With 7 folding engraved plates with tables.



(Madrid), Imprenta de la Viudad de D. Joachin Ibarra, 1796. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with red morocco title-label, gilt outside dentelles, marbled endpapers, yellow edges. With 7 folding engraved plates with tables. (2), 87, (1) pp.

Original edition of a treatise on astronomical navigation by Dionisio Alcala Galiano (1762-1805), Spanish navigator and cartographer and captain in the Royal Spanish armada. He enrolled in the Spanish naval school in 1775. After graduating in 1779 he participated in hydrographic surveys of the Spanish and South American coasts and other Spanish naval scientific explorations. He is one of the authors of the '''Atlas Marino de Espana'' published in 1785-1788. He took part in the 1792 circumnavigation of Alejandro Malaspina. In 1805 he died in the Battle of Trafalgar.
Good copy.- (Library stamp removed on title-page).
Palau 5752 (mentions 6 plates); Houzeau & Lancaster 10540 (mentions 1795 edition).

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Astronomy  Navigation  Spain 

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