Astrolabium Vranicum generale
Subtitle: a necessary and pleasaunt solace and recreation for nauigators in their long iorneying, containing the vse of an instrument or generall astrolabe : newly for them deuised by the author, to bring them skilfully acquainted with all the planets, starres, and constellacions of the heauens, and their courses, mouings, and apparences : called the (Vranicall astrolabe) ... : fraught also by new deuise with all such necessary supplements for iudiciall astrology, as Alkabitius & Claudius Dariottus haue deliuered by their tables : whereunto for their further delight he hath anexed another inuention, expressing in one face the whole globe terrestriall, with the two great English voyages lately performed round about the world
By: compyled by Iohn Blagrave ...
Contributors: Purfoot, Thomas, d. 1615, printer.; Mattes, William, d. 1597, bookseller.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Purfoot for William Matts
Published: 1596
Place of publication: [London?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 68
Subjects: Astrolabes -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Vranicall astrolabe; Astrolabium Uranicum generale
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 3117
T.p. transposed: imprint date appears before printer's statement.
Signatures: A-H⁴ I².
L.C. copy wanting the "whole globe terrestriall" (a map, listed separately as STC no. 3120), and "not known to be found in any copy."