The Sea-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 ... and a Variety of Information with Instructions Useful to Gunners, Both at Sea and On-shore |
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