BLUNDEVILLE, THOMAS. 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. 4to, nineteenth-century vellum, edges stained red, the woodcut on U1r without the volvelle but intact, Sexagenarie table dampstained and with folds reinforced and lower edge cropped, 2 1/2 inch tear to inner edge of the folding diagram of the Mariners Card, marginal tears to fols. 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 (from the staining of the edges), a few minor marginal paper flaws . FIRST EDITION, 6 parts in one, separate 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 fols. 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). "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; STC 3146; Sabin 6023. Sold, as usual, not subject to return because of the possible lack of moveable parts. Provenance : Contemporary ownership inscription of Tho. and Isabella Hervey on title; Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, ink-stamp on title.
BLUNDEVILLE, THOMAS. 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. 4to, nineteenth-century vellum, edges stained red, the woodcut on U1r without the volvelle but intact, Sexagenarie table dampstained and with folds reinforced and lower edge cropped, 2 1/2 inch tear to inner edge of the folding diagram of the Mariners Card, marginal tears to fols. 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 (from the staining of the edges), a few minor marginal paper flaws . FIRST EDITION, 6 parts in one, separate 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 fols. 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). "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; STC 3146; Sabin 6023. Sold, as usual, not subject to return because of the possible lack of moveable parts. Provenance : Contemporary ownership inscription of Tho. and Isabella Hervey on title; Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, ink-stamp on title.
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