General and rare memorials pertayning to the perfect arte of navigation
Subtitle: annexed to the paradoxal cumpas in playne : now first published 24 yeres after the first inuention thereof.
Contributors: Gemistus Plethon, George, 15th cent.; Canter, Willem, 1542-1575.; Day, John, 1522-1584, printer.; Richardson Currer, Miss, 1785-1861, former owner.; Huth, Henry, 1815-1878, former owner.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By Iohn Daye
Published: 1577
Place of publication: Printed at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy; Navigation -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Brytish monarchie
Notes: LC copy has bookplates of Mathew Wilson, Frances M.R. Currer, and Henry Huth.
Author's name, John Dee, appears in various forms in the preliminaries.
The first volume of a larger work never completed. Mainly an argument in favor of a "Pety-Navy-Royall," for protection of the coast and fisheries.
"Only one hundred are to be printed"--P. 79.
Signatures: [delta]⁴ [epsilon]⁴ [epsilon]*⁴ A-K⁴ [L]1.
"Georgii Gemisti Plethonis De rebus Peloponnesi oratio I [et II] Gvlielmo Cantero, interprete": p. 65-79. (Extracts)