The arte of nauigation : Contayning a breife description of the spheare, vvith the partes and circles of the same: as also the making and vse of certaine instruments. Very necessarie for all sortes of sea-men to vnderstand. First written in Spanish by Martin Curtis, and translated into English by Richard Eden: and lastly corrected and augmented, with a regiment or table of declination, and diuers other necessary tables and rules of common nauigation. Calculated (this yeare 1596. being leap yeare) by I.T.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Cortés, Martín, 1532-1589.

Contributor:

Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.

Tapp, John, active 1596-1615.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 210:5.

Standardized Title:

Breve compendio de la sphera y de la arte de navegar. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves, 90, that is, 88 leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves, plate : map, illustrations (woodcuts)

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Breve compendio de la sphera y de la arte de navegar.

Arte of navigation.

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London : By Edw. Allde for Hugh Astley, by the assignes of Richard Watkins, and are to be solde at Sainct Magnus corner, 1596.

Notes:

A translation of: Breve compendio de la sphera y de la arte de navegar.

I.T. = John Tapp.

The first leaf is blank.

Leaf 88 misnumbered 90.

Some of the diagrams have movable dials.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1944. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 210:5). s1944 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 5803.

OCLC:

55179452