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M. Blundevile his exercises, containing eight treatises ... which treatises are very necessary to be read and learned of all young gentlemen that have not beene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to have knowledge as well in cosmographie, astronomie, and geographie, as also in the art of navigation, in which art it is impossible to profit without the helpe of these, or such like instructions
M. Blundevile his exercises
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- To the furtherance of which art of navigation, the sayd Master Blundevile specially wrote the said treatises
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- The sixth edition cor. and augmented
- London : Printed by W. Stansby, 1622
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- 7 preliminary leaves, : illustrations, folded plates, tables (1 folded) diagrams ; 20 x 15 cm
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- ocm04568365
- Each treatise, except that on arithmetic, has special t.-p.; the tables, appended to the treatise on arithmetic, also have special t.-p.
- Signatures. A-Eee in eights. With woodcuts and folding leaves at p. 80, 690, 694, 784, and 796. cf. Hazlitt, W. C. Collections and notes. 1876.
- L. C. copy imperfect. Contains only first five treatises. All after p. 643 wanting.
- The treatise of Arithmeticke -- A briefe description of the tables of three special right lines belonging to a circle, called signes, lines tangent, and lines secant -- A plaine treatise of the first principles of cosmographie, and specially of the spheare, representing the shape of the whole world -- A plaine description of Mercator his two globes -- A plaine and full description of Petrus Plancius his universal mappe, serving both for sea and land -- A verie briefe and most plaine description of Mr. Blagrave his astrolabe, which he calleth the mathematical jewel -- A new and necessarie treatise of navigation, containing all the chiefest principles of that arte -- A brief description of universal maps and cardes, and of their use