Instrucion nauthica
Subtitle: para el buen vso, y regimiento de las naos, su traça, y y [sic] gouierno conforme à la altura de Mexico
By: Co[m]puesta por el doctor Diego Garcia de Palacio, del Co[n]sejo de su Magestad, y su Oydor en la Real Audie[n]cia de la dicha ciudad
Contributors: Saõ Vicente, Miguel Carlos da Cunha da Silveira e Lorena, Conde de, fl. 1791-1811
Publisher: En casa de Pedro Ocharte
Published: 1587
Place of publication: En Mexico
Language: spa
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: CSAIP; Study and teaching; Navigation; Terminology; Shipbuilding
Other titles: Instrvcion navthica.; Instrucion nautica.
Notes: Signatures: pi A-T V (pi1 verso is blank)

Foliation errors: leaves 16-23 and 78-87 lack numeration.

Misordered leaves: C5-6 precede C3-4, and G5-6 precede G3-4.

Includes ills. of navigation instruments, ship cross sections, etc.; coat of arms on t.p.; charts; and astronomical tables.

Contains a glossary of nautical terms on leaves 129-156, with running title: Vocabulario nautico.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:310.

Sabin 58269.

Medina, J.T. Mexico, 106.

García Icazbalceta, J. Bib. mexicana (1954 ed.), 114.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 99540.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Conde de S. Vicente : autograph on t.p. dated 20 de Janeiro 1773.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in speckled leather with coat of arms stamped in gold on front and back: Conde de Saõ Vicente.

John Carter Brown Library copy has tear in lower right corner of t.p., repaired, with no loss of text. There are ms. checks in the margins of the glossary section.