Certaine errors in nauigation / detected and corrected by Edw. Wright ; with many additions that
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Engraved title page depicts world map at bottom with various navigation intsruments along sides and top, as well as a day and night themed sky at top left and top right, respectively.
Description:
In ink at bottom: B1., Printer’s error: lower right corner of title page offset; title page repeated on verso of *2., and With an additional engraved title page.
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography--Early works to 1800, Nautical astronomy --Early works to 1800, and Navigation --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
[London] : Printed by Felix Kingsto[n] at London, 1610
Certaine errors in nauigation / detected and corrected by Edw. Wright ; with many additions that
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Engraved title page depicts world map at bottom with various navigation intsruments along sides and top, as well as a day and night themed sky at top left and top right, respectively.
Description:
In ink at top right corner: 5 [underlined]., Printer’s error: lower right corner of title page offset; title page repeated on verso of *2., and With an additional engraved title page.
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography--Early works to 1800, Nautical astronomy --Early works to 1800, and Navigation --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
[London] : Printed by Felix Kingsto[n] at London, 1610
Added illustrated title page., Imperfect: large stain of ink along top; small tears with no loss of text., and In ink after author's name: not then 20 years old.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Rome --Antiquities --Early works to 1800, and Venice (Italy)
John Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Elaborately engraved title page includes depictions of "The Kinge of Cochin" (present-day Goa, India) and "The Kinge of Tangil" (in present-day Alagoas, Brazil), as well as three ships and several animals.
Description:
Depicts coat of arms of King Henry IV (after having been restored by Queen Elizabeth I)., In ink at top right corner: [indecipherable]., The title page is engraved and signed: Willms Rogers ciuis Londinensis inuentor et sculptor., and Yale proprietary stamp on verso in center.
Subject (Name):
Windet, John, d. 1610, printer and Wolfe, John, d. 1601, printer
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
[London] : Printed at London by [John Windet for] Iohn Wolfe, printer to ye Honorable Cittie of London, [1598]