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Published by Da Capo Press, 1970
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 70 pages. Ex-university library with typical marks, light wear and discoloring; a good book overall. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Nature; Inventory No: 174458.
Published by Walter J Johnson, 1972
ISBN 10: 9022104354ISBN 13: 9789022104354
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Used - Very Good. 1972. Hardcover. Cloth, no dj. Ex lib with badge on front cover near crown, card pocket on rear pastedown. Sound copy with clean internals. Facsimile reprint of 1596 edition. Very Good.
Published by Da Capo Press / Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, Amsterdam, 1970
ISBN 10: 9022102254ISBN 13: 9789022102251
Seller: Mike's Library LLC, Plymouth, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint Ed. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, cloth sunning, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Original t.p. reads: Baculum familliare, Catholicon siue generale. A booke of the making and vse of a staffe, newly inuented by the author, called the familiar staffe . London, Printed by Hugh Jackson dwelling in Fleetestreete a little beneath the conduit, at the signe of S. Iohn the Euangelist, 1590. S.T.C. no. 3118.; The English Experience: Its Record in Early Printed Books Published in Facsimile; Ex-Library; Vol. 225; 70 pages.
Published by Theatrum Orbis Terrarum & Da Capo Press, Amsterdam & New York, 1972
ISBN 10: 9022104354ISBN 13: 9789022104354
Seller: Nikki Green Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile reprint of the 1596 edition. 8vo. unpaginated with 2 pull out maps at rear. Hardcover no dust jacket. The English Experience number 435. STC No 3117 + 3120. Bound in original publisher's red cloth with black label to cover and spine with lettering in gilt. The binding is in very good condition with a little fading to spine.
Published by Da Capo Press
ISBN 10: 9022102947ISBN 13: 9789022102947
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Used - Very Good. 1971. hardcover. Dec. cloth, no dj. Facsimile of the 1585 edition. 4to., 124 pp., illus, incl. foldin tables. Ex-lib., with traces of label on front cover, a small stamp on each endpaper, and pocket at rear. Otherwise, very bright and clean. Very Good.
Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. (12), 70 pp. New-York, Da Capo press, 1970, in-8, (12), 70 pp, Pleine percaline rouge à la bradel, pièces de titre bleues, The English Experience Number 225. "Baculum familliare, Catholicon siue generale. A booke of the making and vse of a staffe, newly inuented by the author, called the familiar staffe " John Balgrave (1561-1611) était mathématicien et horloger.
Published by Da Capo Press, Amsterdam, 1971
ISBN 10: 9022102947ISBN 13: 9789022102947
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Book
Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. This large book has been bound in a red cloth with boxed gilt lettering on the spine and the front board. There is no corner bumping or edge wear. Spot on back board near center, barely detectible. Text is illustrated throughout with black and white original diagrams and charts, double fold out plate. Text is very clean and solid in it's binding. Slight spotting on upper edge of text block. May require additional shipping due to size and weight. A very nice copy. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Facsimile.
Published by London, Walter Veng, 1585
Seller: Sokol Books Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Folio. pp. [xii], 124 [par.] 2[par.]² A-P Q². Two leaves with full page woodcut illustrations before title, folded table bound in after c4. Roman letter some Italic. Large woodcut of Blagrave s astrolabe on title, many woodcut illustrations in text, historiated woodcut initials, typographical headpieces, Erwin Tomash s label on pastedown, early inscription on fep. in seventeenth century hand (see below). Age yellowing, cut a little close in upper margin just touching running headlines on a few leaves, small stain to outer margin of first two leaves causing a little fragility and chipping just touching typographical border of woodcut on second leaf, minor pale waterstaining at edge of t-p, verso of last dusty, lower margins a little dusty in places, rare marginal mark or spot. A very good copy, crisp and on thick paper, completely unsophisticated, stab bound in its original limp vellum, un-sewn with vellum ties stabbed through book block, holes for ties, vellum a little soiled, and creased. Very rare first edition of this important work remarkably preserved in its original limp vellum binding. Blagrave was a mathematician, surveyor and instrument maker from Reading. Educated at St. John s College, Oxford, he never took a degree but returned to Reading, where he lived off the legacy of land left to him by his father. In 1585 he published this, his major work, which ambitiously promised its readers to leadeth any man practising thereon, the direct pathway (from the first steppe to the last) through the whole Artes of Astronomy, Cosmography, Geography, Topography, Navigation, Longitudes of Regions, Dyalling, Sphericall Triangles, Setting figures, and briefly whatsoever concerneth the Globe or the Sphere . In practice, the book explained how to make and use a particular kind of navigational instrument: a new kind of astrolabe, which Blagrave named The Mathematical Jewel . The instrument described is a planispheric astrolabe that had a universal projection modified from the Catholicon of Gemma Frisius a description of which can be found in the second booke. Blagrave added a movable rete (often found on standard astrolabes but not on the Catholicon), which simplified its use for astronomical calculations. This astrolabe was universal in the sense that it did not require a number of different plates or maters to be used at different latitudes. The instrument is illustrated in a number of full-page engravings serving as frontispieces to the work engraved by the author according to the title page. This was an expensive instrument to build and consequently was not much used. While this is the only edition of this work, the Jewel was described ten years later in a work by Thomas Blundeville (Exercises, 1622), and instruction in its use was also offered by Robert Hartwell, a London teacher of mathematics, in 1623 (see Waters, David Watkin; Art of navigation, 1958, p. 570). The work is divided into six bookes. The first deals with elementary concepts of astronomy; the second with the design and manufacturing of the jewel; the third with the use of the instrument for both navigation and astronomical calculations; the fourth considers the same material as the third, but the examples and methods of working come from Blagrave s own research; the fifth is a treatise on spherical triangles; and the last is a work on the use of the jewel in creating sundials of all types. For such a small volume, it is remarkably complete and would have made a very useful reference work even if one did not have a jewel to use. In the fourth book, Blagrave mentions that he had made a jewel two feet in diameter and that he had problems drawing all the arcs on it. He then illustrates a drawing instrument that would suffice in such a situation. Erwin Tomash collection. Blagrave is known to have made other instruments, in particular a familiar staff, which may have been an instrument for artillerymen.