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An updated edition of a work of “extraordinary care and scientific thoroughness” which became the standard nautical dictionary until the end of sail. Extensive contemporary and scholarly marginal notes throughout, including additions, corrections and deletions, done in ink in a neat hand, by a very knowledgeable former owner. According to a penciled note on the front blank, one of the former owners was an experienced midshipman who served under Sir Robert Calder in the early 1800s, but it is unclear whether the marginal notes are by him. A unique, personalized copy, undoubtedly with much information gained first-hand through experience, and possibly with information found nowhere else.