TAYLOR, MICHAEL. A Sexagesimal table, exhibiting, at sight, the Result of any Proportion, where the Terms do not exceed Sixty Minutes [etc.] . . . Useful for Astronomers, Mathematicians, Navigators, and Persons in Trade . . . Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude. Folding table. xlv, [3], 316 pages. 4to, modern 1/2 calf. London: William Richardson for C. Nourse et al., 1780
first edition. "The fact that angular measurements are reckoned on a sexagesimal scale made such Tables necessary for purposes of interpolation and computing"--Taylor, Mathematical Practitioners (Hanoverian), page 325.
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