BLUNDEVILLE, Thomas. M. Blundeville his Exercises, containing sixe Treatises...verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong Gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in Cosmographie, Astronomie, and Geographie, as also in the Arte of Navigation . London: for John Windet, 1594.
BLUNDEVILLE, Thomas. M. Blundeville his Exercises, containing sixe Treatises...verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong Gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in Cosmographie, Astronomie, and Geographie, as also in the Arte of Navigation . London: for John Windet, 1594. Six parts in one, 4 o (190 x 142 mm). Section title-pages, continuous foliation, mostly black letter, two folding tables and one folding woodcut diagram, woodcut illustrations in the text (some full-page), those on U7r, Xx2v, and Y6r with volvelles (the first two each with two moveable parts), with fol. A1, blank except for signature, the Sexagenarie table with the variant setting, with the first line of the heading ending "in", as described in STC 3146. (Woodcut on U1r without the volvelle but intact, some volvelle elements possibly lacking, Sexagenarie table dampstained and with folds reinforced and lower edge cropped, 2½-in. tear to inner edge of the folding diagram of the Mariners Card, marginal tears to A4 and I8, the first repaired, a few inkstains in quire C partially obscuring some letters, some marginal soiling and dampstaining, blank leaf A1, title-page, and final leaf with mostly marginal red staining.) Modern vellum. Provenance : Tho. and Isabella Hervey (contemporary ownership signatures on title); Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford (ink stamp on title); Pierre S. duPont III (his sale Christie's New York, 8 October 1991, lot 17). FIRST EDITION. "Blundeville in his treatise was the first Englishman to describe the use of the tables of the three trigonometrical functions--sine, tangent, and secant... He drew freely upon the works of the various writers for definitions, illustrations, examples, and tables, and thus presented to the student an authoritative and up-to-date synthesis of the theories and practices of the art of navigation in the 1590s" (D.W. Waters, The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times , London, 1958, p. 214). The work also includes references to voyages to the New World, and reprints John Blagrave's Mathematical jewel (first published London, 1585, see lot 41). Also described are the globes of Mercator and Molineaux, pointing out that the Molineaux differs greatly around the North Pole and shows the first course of the voyage of Sir Francis Drake and Thomas Cavendish. He describes Drake's voyage and visit to California and the voyage of Cavendish. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , this is the last copy to appear at auction when it was sold at the duPont sale at Christie's New York in 1991. Alden & Landis 594/13; STC 3146; Sabin 6023.
BLUNDEVILLE, Thomas. M. Blundeville his Exercises, containing sixe Treatises...verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong Gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in Cosmographie, Astronomie, and Geographie, as also in the Arte of Navigation . London: for John Windet, 1594.
BLUNDEVILLE, Thomas. M. Blundeville his Exercises, containing sixe Treatises...verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong Gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in Cosmographie, Astronomie, and Geographie, as also in the Arte of Navigation . London: for John Windet, 1594. Six parts in one, 4 o (190 x 142 mm). Section title-pages, continuous foliation, mostly black letter, two folding tables and one folding woodcut diagram, woodcut illustrations in the text (some full-page), those on U7r, Xx2v, and Y6r with volvelles (the first two each with two moveable parts), with fol. A1, blank except for signature, the Sexagenarie table with the variant setting, with the first line of the heading ending "in", as described in STC 3146. (Woodcut on U1r without the volvelle but intact, some volvelle elements possibly lacking, Sexagenarie table dampstained and with folds reinforced and lower edge cropped, 2½-in. tear to inner edge of the folding diagram of the Mariners Card, marginal tears to A4 and I8, the first repaired, a few inkstains in quire C partially obscuring some letters, some marginal soiling and dampstaining, blank leaf A1, title-page, and final leaf with mostly marginal red staining.) Modern vellum. Provenance : Tho. and Isabella Hervey (contemporary ownership signatures on title); Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford (ink stamp on title); Pierre S. duPont III (his sale Christie's New York, 8 October 1991, lot 17). FIRST EDITION. "Blundeville in his treatise was the first Englishman to describe the use of the tables of the three trigonometrical functions--sine, tangent, and secant... He drew freely upon the works of the various writers for definitions, illustrations, examples, and tables, and thus presented to the student an authoritative and up-to-date synthesis of the theories and practices of the art of navigation in the 1590s" (D.W. Waters, The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times , London, 1958, p. 214). The work also includes references to voyages to the New World, and reprints John Blagrave's Mathematical jewel (first published London, 1585, see lot 41). Also described are the globes of Mercator and Molineaux, pointing out that the Molineaux differs greatly around the North Pole and shows the first course of the voyage of Sir Francis Drake and Thomas Cavendish. He describes Drake's voyage and visit to California and the voyage of Cavendish. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , this is the last copy to appear at auction when it was sold at the duPont sale at Christie's New York in 1991. Alden & Landis 594/13; STC 3146; Sabin 6023.
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