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BOURNE, William (d1583) A Regiment for the Sea: Conteyning m...

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102.000 $
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BOURNE, William (d.1583). A Regiment for the Sea: Conteyning most profitable Rules, Mathematical experiences, and perfect knowledge of Navigation, for all Coastes and Countreys: most needefull and necessarie for all Seafaring men and Travellers, as Pilotes, Mariners, Marchants, &c. London: [H. Bynneman for] Thomas Hacket, [1574?].
BOURNE, William (d.1583). A Regiment for the Sea: Conteyning most profitable Rules, Mathematical experiences, and perfect knowledge of Navigation, for all Coastes and Countreys: most needefull and necessarie for all Seafaring men and Travellers, as Pilotes, Mariners, Marchants, &c. London: [H. Bynneman for] Thomas Hacket, [1574?]. 4 o (195 x 142 mm). Woodcut of an astrolabe on title, woodcut of a ship on title verso, woodcuts in text. (Title slightly frayed along top edge and with upper corner repaired, affecting extreme corner of image border on verso.) Contemporary limp vellum (soiled). Provenance : Institution of Naval Architects, Scott Library Collection (bookplate; sold Christie's London, 4 December 1974, lot 72). THE FIRST PRINTED ORIGINAL TREATISE ON NAVIGATION BY AN ENGLISHMAN FIRST EDITION of this expansion of Bourne's "Rules of Navigation" that appeared in his An Almanacke and Prognostication (London 1567, i.e. 1571). D.W. Waters emphasizes the immediate recognition of the work's importance: "Of course it appealed to Captain John Smith and was recommended by him fifty years after its first publication. He was a practical man. The Regiment was a practical manual, written by a man who, if not practiced in his art at sea, had the sea-breeze in his nostrils, seamen at his elbow, and the rare faculties of quick comprehension and lucid exposition. Its essential feature was that it supplemented Cortes's Arte of Navigation in exactly the right way--where it was weakest. Cortes's manual was valuable to the navigator chiefly for its detailed descriptions of how to make the principal instruments of navigation; Bourne's manual, apart from its innovations and simplifications, was valuable chiefly for its detailed instructions on how to use the instruments" (D.W. Waters, The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times , New Haven, 1958, p.143, with an extensive explication on the text on pp.132-142). EXTREMELY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , no copy has appeared at auction in at least 30 years. Adams & Waters 256; STC 3422; Taylor Mathematical Practioners 47 ("It is notable for the first mention of the log-line"). See PMM 76 under Cortes for a discussion of Bourne's contribution.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 60
Auktion:
Datum:
16.04.2007 - 17.04.2007
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
16-17 April 2007, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

BOURNE, William (d.1583). A Regiment for the Sea: Conteyning most profitable Rules, Mathematical experiences, and perfect knowledge of Navigation, for all Coastes and Countreys: most needefull and necessarie for all Seafaring men and Travellers, as Pilotes, Mariners, Marchants, &c. London: [H. Bynneman for] Thomas Hacket, [1574?].
BOURNE, William (d.1583). A Regiment for the Sea: Conteyning most profitable Rules, Mathematical experiences, and perfect knowledge of Navigation, for all Coastes and Countreys: most needefull and necessarie for all Seafaring men and Travellers, as Pilotes, Mariners, Marchants, &c. London: [H. Bynneman for] Thomas Hacket, [1574?]. 4 o (195 x 142 mm). Woodcut of an astrolabe on title, woodcut of a ship on title verso, woodcuts in text. (Title slightly frayed along top edge and with upper corner repaired, affecting extreme corner of image border on verso.) Contemporary limp vellum (soiled). Provenance : Institution of Naval Architects, Scott Library Collection (bookplate; sold Christie's London, 4 December 1974, lot 72). THE FIRST PRINTED ORIGINAL TREATISE ON NAVIGATION BY AN ENGLISHMAN FIRST EDITION of this expansion of Bourne's "Rules of Navigation" that appeared in his An Almanacke and Prognostication (London 1567, i.e. 1571). D.W. Waters emphasizes the immediate recognition of the work's importance: "Of course it appealed to Captain John Smith and was recommended by him fifty years after its first publication. He was a practical man. The Regiment was a practical manual, written by a man who, if not practiced in his art at sea, had the sea-breeze in his nostrils, seamen at his elbow, and the rare faculties of quick comprehension and lucid exposition. Its essential feature was that it supplemented Cortes's Arte of Navigation in exactly the right way--where it was weakest. Cortes's manual was valuable to the navigator chiefly for its detailed descriptions of how to make the principal instruments of navigation; Bourne's manual, apart from its innovations and simplifications, was valuable chiefly for its detailed instructions on how to use the instruments" (D.W. Waters, The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times , New Haven, 1958, p.143, with an extensive explication on the text on pp.132-142). EXTREMELY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , no copy has appeared at auction in at least 30 years. Adams & Waters 256; STC 3422; Taylor Mathematical Practioners 47 ("It is notable for the first mention of the log-line"). See PMM 76 under Cortes for a discussion of Bourne's contribution.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 60
Auktion:
Datum:
16.04.2007 - 17.04.2007
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
16-17 April 2007, New York, Rockefeller Center
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