Baculum familliare, catholicon siue generale
Subtitle: A booke of the making and vse of a staffe, newly inuented by the author, called the familiar staffe. As well for that it may be made vsually and familiarlie to walke with, as for that it performeth the geometrical mensurations of all altituded, longitudes, latitudes, distances and profundities: as many myles of, as the eye may well see and discerne: most speedily, exactly and familiarly without any maner of arithmeticall calculation, easily to be learned and practised, euen by the vnlettered. Newlie compiled, and at this time published for the speciall helpe of shooting in great ordinance, and other millitarie seruices, and may as well be imployed by the ingenious, for measuring of land, and to a number of other good purposes, both geometricall and astronomicall: by Iohn Blagraue ...
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 280:5.
Publisher: Printed by Hugh Iackson dvvelling in Fleete-streete a little beneath the Conduit, at the signe of S. Iohn the Euangelist
Published: 1590
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Surveying -- Instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Baculum familliare; Vse of the familliar staffe.; Use of the familliar staffe.; Vse of the familiar staffe.; Use of the familiar staffe.; Baculum familliare, catholicon sive generale.; Catholicon generale.
Notes: Cf. Folger catalogue, which gives signatures: A-K⁴.

Running title reads "The vse of the familliar staffe" or "The vse of the familiar staffe".

Variant: imprint has "dwelling at Fleete #5FD\ Bridge".

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

STC (2nd ed.) 3118.

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1946. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 280:05).