The arte of nauigation
Subtitle: conteyning a compendious description of the sphere, with the making of certayne instruments and rules for nauigations, and exemplifyed by many demonstrations
By: written by Martin Cortes ... ; Englished out of Spanishe by Richard Eden ; and now newly corrected and amended in diuers places.
Contributors: Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.; Jeffes, Abel, fl. 1583-1599, printer.; Watkins, Richard, d. 1599, bookseller.; Huth, Henry, 1815-1878, former owner.; Northumberland, Henry Percy, Earl of, 1564-1632, former owner.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed at the charges of Richard Watkins
Published: 1589
Place of publication: At London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
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: "Imprinted at London by Abell Ieffes for Richard VVatkins ...": colophon.
Signatures: [par.]⁸ A-K⁸ L⁴.
Volvelles on leaves 15v, 32v, 48v, 66, 75, and 83.
LC copy has a dealer's description tipped in on the front free endpaper, and an excerpt from another mounted on the same leaf.
With: Bourne, William. The arte of shooting in great ordnaunce ... Imprinted at London : For Thomas Woodcocke, 1587 -- Garcie, Pierre. Le grand routier, pilotage, et encrage de mer ... Reueu & corrigé de nouueau. A La Rochelle : Pour Marin Villepoux, 1584. Bound together subsequent to publication.
LC copy has bookplate: Ex Musæo Huthii. Cover stamped in gilt with the arms of Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland.
STC (2nd ed.) 5802