The Sea-mans Grammar: Containing Most Plain and Easie Directions, How to Build, Rigge, Yard, and Mast Any Ship Whatsoever: with the Plain Ex

Publisher Marketing: Title: The sea-mans grammar: containing most plain and easie directions, how to build, rigge, yard, and mast any ship whatsoever: with the plain exposition of all such terms as are used in a navie and fight at sea: whereunto is added a table of the weight, charge, shot, powder, and the dimensions of all other appurtenances belonging to all sorts of great ordnance: with divers practicall experiments in the art of gunnery: also the charge and duty of every officer in a ship and their shares: with the use of the petty tally. Author: John SmithPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U. S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03185200CollectionID: CTRG00-B109PublicationDate: 16530101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Previously published as: "An accidence for the sea" (1626); and an enlarged edition: "A sea grammar" (1627) Pages 73-75 misnumbered as p. 83-85; p. 40 misnumbered as p. 38. Collation: [4], 85 [i.e. 75] p Contributor Bio:  Smith, John Aidan Ward and John Smith are partners in Antelope Projects Ltd, a business risk management consultancy with a prime interest in authenticity and trust. Aidan Ward has a background in large software projects and application architectures. For the last seven years he has run the risk management consultancy business. He works within a network of distinguished specialists in many fields, to bring out issues of trust and risk management in a proper context. Aidan is the author of many papers on the application of risk management insights in particular domains and of the Scimitar Risk Management System. John Smith moved into retail systems from aircraft engineering, designing and implementing some of the earliest EPOS systems. He has successfully used Antelope's SCIMITAR methodology in business projects in many parts of the world and in many cultures. Its adaptability and the ease with which it accommodates cultural context is a ceaseless source of wonder to him. John is a published author in his own genre, cliche fiction.