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Manuscript book, plain tattered soft cover, decorated title page 'Thomas Baikie's book, Stromness, Orkney, 1851'. Contains 'Practical Trigonometry', 'Plane Sailing', 'Traverese Sailing', 'Parallel Sailing', 'Middle Lat. Sailing', 'Mercator's Sailing', 'Mercator's Sailing of Compound Courses', 'Tides', 'Of Finding the Latitude by a meridian Altitude', 'On the Variation of the Compass', 'Journal of a Voyage from Englandto Madeira in the Ship Britannia, J. W. N. Commander, Kept by T. Baikie, Mate, 1841', 'Oblique Trigonometry', 'Oblique Sailing', 'Current Sailing', 'Of Finding the Latitude by Double Altitude', 'On Finding the Time by any Given Meridian', 'On finding the longitude by Cronometers', an executed in a fair copperplate with coloured diagrams and title-page, and drawing of 'Britannia'. (Map of Orkney pasted inside back cover.