An accidence or The path-way to experience: Necessary for all young sea-men, or those that are desirous to goe to sea, briefly shewing the phrases, offices, and words of command, belonging to the building, ridging, and sayling, a man of warre; and how to manage a fight at sea. Together with the charge and duty of every officer, and their shares: also the names, vveight, charge, shot, and powder, of all sorts of great ordnance. With the vse of the petty tally. Written by Captaine Iohn Smith sometimes governour of Virginia, and admirall of New England
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Main Author: Smith, John 1580-1631 (Author)
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Language:English
Published: London Printed [by Nicholas Okes] for Ionas Man, and Benjamin Fisher, and are to be sold at the signe of the Talbot, in Aldersgate streete 1626
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Item Description:A variant (STC 22785) is dated 1627. - Dedication on A2r: "To all the Right Honorable and most generous lords in England, and others". Variant: dedication to Sir Robert Heath. - Enlarged and rearranged as "A sea grammar" and, later, "A sea-mans grammar". - Printer's name from STC. - Reproduction of a photostat of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. - Running title reads: An accidence for yong sea-men. - STC (2nd ed.), 22784. - The last leaf is blank
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