GUNTER, EDMUND. The Description and Use of the Sector, Cross-Staffe and other Instruments...the Second Edition much augmented. London: William Iones for Iames Bowler 1636. Small 4to, contemporary calf, leather of spine cracking, joints rubbed, lacking one woodcut plate, pale dampstaining to title and first few leaves, occasional marginal paper defects, some marginal soiling . Engraved and printed titles, engraved plate, woodcut plate (1/2 page) of a sector between fols. K4 and L1 (intended as a volvelle for the figure on facing p. 72), slip with woodcut scale beween Q4 and R1, slip with woodcut table between 2F2 and 2F3, woodcut diagrams in the text, inserted leaf between L4 and M1 bearing the same text as L4 in a different typesetting (apparently from another edition?), with blank leaf 3L2 and the inserted leaf "The use of the Canon" between 3L2 and 4A1. "One of the most influential scientific works on navigation...all subsequent navigation manuals bear indelibly the stamp of its genius, for they are primarily treatises upon the solution of navigational problems by geometrical and trigonometrical methods"--Waters, The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times (New Haven, 1958); STC 12523. Provenance : Contemporary ownership inscription on recto of frontispiece, a few marginal annotations.
GUNTER, EDMUND. The Description and Use of the Sector, Cross-Staffe and other Instruments...the Second Edition much augmented. London: William Iones for Iames Bowler 1636. Small 4to, contemporary calf, leather of spine cracking, joints rubbed, lacking one woodcut plate, pale dampstaining to title and first few leaves, occasional marginal paper defects, some marginal soiling . Engraved and printed titles, engraved plate, woodcut plate (1/2 page) of a sector between fols. K4 and L1 (intended as a volvelle for the figure on facing p. 72), slip with woodcut scale beween Q4 and R1, slip with woodcut table between 2F2 and 2F3, woodcut diagrams in the text, inserted leaf between L4 and M1 bearing the same text as L4 in a different typesetting (apparently from another edition?), with blank leaf 3L2 and the inserted leaf "The use of the Canon" between 3L2 and 4A1. "One of the most influential scientific works on navigation...all subsequent navigation manuals bear indelibly the stamp of its genius, for they are primarily treatises upon the solution of navigational problems by geometrical and trigonometrical methods"--Waters, The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times (New Haven, 1958); STC 12523. Provenance : Contemporary ownership inscription on recto of frontispiece, a few marginal annotations.
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