Vivó, Buenaventura:

$2,250 · Offered by William Reese Company

FÓRMULAS PARA OBTENER LA LONGITUD, Y TABLAS LUNARES PARA CORREGIR LOS EFECTOS DE PARALAGE Y REFRACCION EN LAS DISTANCIAS DE SOL, Ó ESTRELLA, A LUNA. An extremely rare mid-19th-century Cuban maritime manual consisting of various formulas for calculating longitude, with accompanying lunar tables employed in the process of determining location at sea. In the prologue the author writes that his intention is to ease the work of navigators by presenting in one "little work" the various methods needed for calculating the true distance between the sun and the moon from which true longitude could be obtained. Vivó, identified simply as "el piloto particular" on the titlepage, later served as Mexican Consul in Havana and in Spain. His Tratado Consular was published in Mexico in 1850, and his Memorias, recounting his service in Spain between 1853 and 1855, was published in Madrid in 1856.An extremely rare maritime manual printed in Havana. Cited only in Palau; not on OCLC.

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