The arte of nauigation
Subtitle: 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
By: 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.
Contributors: Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.; Tapp, John, fl. 1596-1615.; Allde, Edward, d. 1627, printer.; Astley, Hugh, d. 1609?, bookseller.; Watkins, Richard, d. 1599.; Barlow, Samuel L. M. 1826-1889, former owner.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By Edw. Allde for Hugh Astley, by the assignes of Richard Watkins ...
Published: 1596
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Navigation -- Early works to 1800.; Geography.; Mathematical geography.; America -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Arte of navigation
Notes: 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.
LC copy has bookplate of Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow.
STC (2nd ed.) 5803