Shelfmark
Gb.5.16
Author
Title
Certaine errors in nauigation, detected and corrected / by Edw: Wright with many additions that were not in the former edition as appeareth in the next pages.
Varying form of title
Certaine errors in navigation, detected and corrected
Varying form of title
Certain errors in navigation, detected and corrected
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : Printed by Felix Kingsto[n] at London., 1610.
Physical description
[52], 472 [ie. 464]; 122, [22] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., map, tables ; 20 cm. (4to.)
Note
Signatures: *¹⁰ [pillcrow]⁸ A-Z⁸ Aa-Ff⁸ ff⁸ Gg-Pp⁸ (Oo8 blank).
Note
Errors in pagination: page no. 53-54, 183-184 and 364-367 have ben omitted.
Note
With an additional engraved title-page.
Note
Headpieces and initials; printed marginalia.
Note
"The diuision of the whole art of nauigation" is a translation of "Compendio de la arte de navegar" by Rodrigo de Zamorano, and has separate pagination and register.
Note
Includes a table of contents.
Note
Errata ("Faults escaped amend thus.") on verso of final printed leaf.
Citation/references note
ESTC, S95920
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 26020
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on front pastedown.
Provenance
Possibly from the library of John Harrison, Head Master of Eton, 1630-1642, according to the card catalogue record. Very occasional notes (eg. on fol. Pp2v) may be by Harrison.
Binding
Contemporary limp parchment; follicles visible; yapp edges; traces of ties; four sewn bands; pink stained edges; endpapers of printer's waste, from the first book of Maccabees, in English, set in quarto.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Dd.6.11, Fd.6.11, Ef.8.10.
Subject
Subject
Navigation Early works to 1800.
Subject
Cosmography Early works to 1800.
Subject
Nautical astronomy Early works to 1800.
Subject
Pilot guides England Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Zamorano, Rodrigo de, approximately 1542 - ? Compendio de la arte de navegar. English.
Added entry--name
Kingston, Felix printer.
Added entry--name
Harrison, John, ? - d. 1642 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng spa
Identifier
B47069