The new attractiue
Subtitle: containing a short discourse of the magnes or loadstone : and amongst other his vertues, of a new discouered secret and subtill propertie, concerning the declination of the needle ...
By: by Robert Norman, hydrographer ; heereunto are annexed certaine necessary rules for the arte of nauigation by the same R.N.
Contributors: Borough, William, 1536-1599; Allde, Edward, d. 1627, printer; Astley, Hugh, d. 1609?, publisher; Thompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips), 1851-1916, former owner; Morrell, binder; Burndy Library
Edition: Newly corrected and amended / by M. W.B.
Publisher: By E. Allde, for Hugh Astley
Published: 1596
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Scientific apparatus and instruments; Geomagnetism; Early works to 1800; Magnetic declination
Other titles: Norman's New attractive; New attractive
Work titles: New attractive
Notes: Title within a decorative border, with a woodcut vignette of a ship.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials; side-notes.

Illustrated with diagrams, and with numerous tables of declination, etc.

Dibner Library copy is imperfect: the title leaf is wanting (A1, supplied instead in handwritten and in photographic facsimile). Part 2, "A discourse of the variation of the compass by William Borough," is also wanting.

STC (2nd ed.), 18650

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 53

S.P. Thompson copy.

SCDIRB copy is imperfect: the title leaf and all of part 2 (everything after F8) are wanting. The edges of many of the leaves have been skillfully repaired.

SCDIRB copy has a hand-copied facsimile of the title leaf bound in at front, facing a photographic facsimile from an unidentified copy. The hand-copied facsimile is attributed to a former owner, S.P. Thompson.

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner. Herald of Science no. 53.

SCDIRB copy has a modern gilt-tooled blue morocco leather binding with raised bands and top edge gilt, housed in a red cloth slipcase. The binding is signed by Morrell.