CORTÉS, Martin. The Arte of Navigation, Conteyning a Compendious Description of the Sphere, with the Making of Certayne Instruments and Rules for Navigations: and Exemplified by Many Demonstrations. Translated from Spanish into English by Richard Eden. London: Richard Jugge, 1572.
CORTÉS, Martin. The Arte of Navigation, Conteyning a Compendious Description of the Sphere, with the Making of Certayne Instruments and Rules for Navigations: and Exemplified by Many Demonstrations. Translated from Spanish into English by Richard Eden. London: Richard Jugge, 1572. 4 o (182 x 127 mm). Title within woodcut border, folding woodcut map "The Newe Worlde" (150 x 255 mm), woodcut illustrations and diagrams, three with volvelles (lacking 3 volvelles). (Two leaves cut into at fore-edge.) 19th-century blind-stamped calf (a few repairs, some rubbing). Provenance : Harrison D. Horblit (bookplate; his sale part I, Sotheby's London, 11 June 1974, lot 247, illustrated). Second edition in English of Cortés's Breve compendio (see previous lot). ALL EARLY EDITIONS ARE EXTREMELY RARE. According to American Book Prices Current , in the last 30 years only one early edition has appeared at auction: the Penrose copy of the later 1584 edition, originally sold at his sale in 1971 and then sold again at Sotheby's London, 22 June 1989, lot 170. Richard Eden (ca 1520-1576) gained his interest in colonial affairs while a student of Sir Thomas Smith at Christ's College, Cambridge. In 1552 he became secretary to Sir William Cecil, who at the time was working with the earl of Northumberland to challenge Spain's global empire. With Northumberland's encouragement, Eden produced his first major work, the translation of A Treatyse of the Newe India (1553), a section of Sebastian Muenster's Cosmographia . He soon after visited Sebastian Cabot on his deathbed, and received 5 yards of scarlet cloth at Elizabeth I's coronation in 1559. Translations of Oviedo and Peter Martyr (see lot 350) were followed by the 1561 translation of Corté's Breve compendio , appending to it descriptions of mathematical instruments, which are thought by some to have been created by Eden himself. The first edition in English was printed that same year. His work as a translator and promoter of colonial interests established him as one of the key figures in sixteenth-century English intellectual circles, and he proved a great example to Richard Hakluyt. The rare map in this edition shows the line of demarcation in the Atlantic ocean. Alden & Landis 572/16; Burden 28; STC 5799. See Borba de Moraes I:218 (1589 ed.).
CORTÉS, Martin. The Arte of Navigation, Conteyning a Compendious Description of the Sphere, with the Making of Certayne Instruments and Rules for Navigations: and Exemplified by Many Demonstrations. Translated from Spanish into English by Richard Eden. London: Richard Jugge, 1572.
CORTÉS, Martin. The Arte of Navigation, Conteyning a Compendious Description of the Sphere, with the Making of Certayne Instruments and Rules for Navigations: and Exemplified by Many Demonstrations. Translated from Spanish into English by Richard Eden. London: Richard Jugge, 1572. 4 o (182 x 127 mm). Title within woodcut border, folding woodcut map "The Newe Worlde" (150 x 255 mm), woodcut illustrations and diagrams, three with volvelles (lacking 3 volvelles). (Two leaves cut into at fore-edge.) 19th-century blind-stamped calf (a few repairs, some rubbing). Provenance : Harrison D. Horblit (bookplate; his sale part I, Sotheby's London, 11 June 1974, lot 247, illustrated). Second edition in English of Cortés's Breve compendio (see previous lot). ALL EARLY EDITIONS ARE EXTREMELY RARE. According to American Book Prices Current , in the last 30 years only one early edition has appeared at auction: the Penrose copy of the later 1584 edition, originally sold at his sale in 1971 and then sold again at Sotheby's London, 22 June 1989, lot 170. Richard Eden (ca 1520-1576) gained his interest in colonial affairs while a student of Sir Thomas Smith at Christ's College, Cambridge. In 1552 he became secretary to Sir William Cecil, who at the time was working with the earl of Northumberland to challenge Spain's global empire. With Northumberland's encouragement, Eden produced his first major work, the translation of A Treatyse of the Newe India (1553), a section of Sebastian Muenster's Cosmographia . He soon after visited Sebastian Cabot on his deathbed, and received 5 yards of scarlet cloth at Elizabeth I's coronation in 1559. Translations of Oviedo and Peter Martyr (see lot 350) were followed by the 1561 translation of Corté's Breve compendio , appending to it descriptions of mathematical instruments, which are thought by some to have been created by Eden himself. The first edition in English was printed that same year. His work as a translator and promoter of colonial interests established him as one of the key figures in sixteenth-century English intellectual circles, and he proved a great example to Richard Hakluyt. The rare map in this edition shows the line of demarcation in the Atlantic ocean. Alden & Landis 572/16; Burden 28; STC 5799. See Borba de Moraes I:218 (1589 ed.).
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