Cortés, Martín, 1532-1589.

The arte of nauigation : contayning a breife description of the spheare, vvith the partes and circles of the same : as also the making and vse of certaine instruments : very necessary for all sortes of sea-men to vnderstand / Arte of navigation first written in Spanish by Martin Curtis, and translated into English by Richard Eden ; and lastly corrected and augmented, with a regiment or table of declination and diuers other necessary tables and rules of common nauigation, calculated (this yeare 1596 being leap yeare) by J.T. - Imprinted at London : By Edw. Allde for Hugh Astley, by the assignes of Richard Watkins ..., 1596. - [6], 90 [i.e. 88], [2] leaves (first leaf blank), [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)

Error in foliation: 88 as 90. Signatures: A-M⁸. Volvelles on leaves 29, 46, 62v, 71v, 79v [?]. LC copy imperfect: initial blank, leaves 54 and 55, [2] leaves at end, and possible volvelle [?] on leaf 79v wanting. Extent from RLIN record no. CSHRB15001350-B.

STC (2nd ed.) 5803

ca 09006007


Navigation--Early works to 1800.
Geography--Early works to 1800.
Mathematical geography--Early works to 1800.


America--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.


Mechanical works.

VK551 / .C8 1596