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Actions Displays	The Sea-Gunner's Vade-Mecum Remove from selection Add to selection Object number2012.00501 TitleThe Sea-Gunner's Vade-Mecum Creator Robert Simmons (author)‎, Steel & Co (publisher)‎ DescriptionBook: The Sea-Gunner's Vade-Mecum. Bound in a 19th century English brown sheepskin binding, with spine gold tooled with lines and ends of boards goldtooled with geometrical pattern. Production placeLondon Production date 1812 - 1812 Object namebook Object categorypublication Materialpaper, card, sheepskin Techniqueprinted, handcrafted Dimensions overall height: 220 mm overall width: 130 mm overall depth: 25 mm DocumentationSea-Gunner's Vade-Mecum : being a new introduction to practical gunnery, expressly accommodated to the use of the Royal Navy, &c. and including the rules of decimal arithmetic; so much of practical geometry as may be required in the art; an explanation of the duty of a master-gunner; with the forms of accounts, papers &c..; the composition of useful artificial fire-works; and a variety of information with instructions useful to gunners, both at sea and on-shore.

Object number2012.00501

TitleThe Sea-Gunner's Vade-Mecum

Creator Robert Simmons (author)‎, Steel & Co (publisher)‎

DescriptionBook: The Sea-Gunner's Vade-Mecum. Bound in a 19th century English brown sheepskin binding, with spine gold tooled with lines and ends of boards goldtooled with geometrical pattern.

Production placeLondon

Production date 1812 - 1812

Object namebook

Object categorypublication

Materialpaper, card, sheepskin

Techniqueprinted, handcrafted

Dimensions

DocumentationSea-Gunner's Vade-Mecum : being a new introduction to practical gunnery, expressly accommodated to the use of the Royal Navy, &c. and including the rules of decimal arithmetic; so much of practical geometry as may be required in the art; an explanation of the duty of a master-gunner; with the forms of accounts, papers &c..; the composition of useful artificial fire-works; and a variety of information with instructions useful to gunners, both at sea and on-shore.

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