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Baculum familliare, catholicon siue generale : 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 ...
Van Pelt - Microtext STC I Reel 280:5.
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Blagrave, John, -1611.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 280:5.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surveying--Instruments--Early works to 1800.
- Surveying.
- Surveying--Instruments.
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 70 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Other Title:
- 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.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by Hugh Iackson dvvelling in Fleete-streete a little beneath the Conduit, at the signe of S. Iohn the Euangelist, 1590.
- 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.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1946. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 280:05). s1946 miun a
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 3118.
- OCLC:
- 55161421
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