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  The mariners jewel; or, A pocket companion for the ingenious Being of more general use for officers, seamen, carpenters, boatswains, pursers and stewards, then any thing yet published. Containing an alphabetical dictionary of all the naval terms; a general pay table; with a table of boatswain stores for each rank of shop; the proportion of prizes, with many other useful things both decimal and vulgarly demonstrated from a manuscript of Sir John Narbrough's and methodiz'd by James Lightbody, P.M.
  Date of publication:
  1695
  

  Author(s):

  Lightbody, James. and Narbrough, John, Sir, 1640-1688.
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  Imperfect; lacking pp. 105-112. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  Every man his own gauger wherein not only the artist is shown a more ready and exact method of gauging than any hitherto extant, but the most ignorant, who can but read English, and tell twenty in figures, is taught to find the content of any sort of cask or vessel, either full, or in part full, and to know if they be right siz'd : also what a pipe, hogshead, &c. amounts to at the common rate and measure they buy or sell at : with several useful tables to know the content of any vessel by, likewise a table shewing the price of any commodity, from one pound to an hundred weight, and the contrary : to which is added, the art of brewing beer, ale, mum, of fining, preserving and botling brew'd liquors, of making the most common physical ales now in use, of making several fine English wines : the vintners art of fining, curing, preserving all sorts of wines ... together with the compleat coffee-pan, teaching how to make coffee, tea, chocolate ... / by J. Lightbody ...
  Date of publication:
  1695
  

  Author(s):

  Lightbody, James.
  Description:
  Index: prelim. p. [3]-[4]. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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