The mathematical iewel
Subtitle: shewing the making and most excellent vse of a singuler instrument so called, in that it performeth with wonderfull dexteritie, whatsoeuer is to be done, either in quadrant, ship, circle, cylinder, ring, dyall, horoscope, astrolabe, sphere, globe or any such like heretofore deuised ... : the vse of which iewel is so abundant and ample that it leadeth any man practising thereon the direct pathway ... through the whole artes of astronomy, cosmography, geography, topography, nauigation ... : the most part newly found out by the author, compiled and published for the furthance, as well of gentlemen and others desirous of speculative knowledge and priuate practice, as also for the furnishing of such worthy mindes, nauigators, and traueylers, that pretend long voyages or new discoueries
By: by Iohn Blagraue ... who hath cut all the prints or pictures of the whole worke with his owne hands, 1585.
Contributors: Venge, Walter, d. 1598, printer.; Dawson, Thomas, d. 1620, printer.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By Walter Venge ...
Published: 1585
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Astrolabes -- Early works to 1800.; Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Margarita mathematica
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 3119
Preceding the t.p. ([par.]1) are 3 illustrated leaves. The first has caption title: The mathematical ievvell; the last 2 (apparently added t.p.'s) have Latin title: Margarita mathematica.
Colophon: Imprinted at London : By Thomas Dawson for Walter Venge.
Signatures: pi1 2pi1 3pi1 [par.]⁴ 2[par.]² A-P⁴ Q².