GARCIA DE CESPEDES, LIBRO DE INSTRUMENTOS NUEVOS DE GEOMETRIA, MADRID, 1606, LATER HALF VELLUM

4to (200 x 144mm.), woodcut initials and headpiece, woodcut illustrations, later vellum-backed marbled boards, paper flaw in lower margin of N1, binding slightly rubbed

bought from B. & L. Rootenberg Rare Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, 1999

Tomash & Williams G27; Palau 98620; Pérez Pastor, II, 935; USTC 5016708

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FIRST EDITION. García de Céspedes, cosmographer to Philip III, wrote several works (see the list on [paraph]2), of which only two were printed, the present work and a treatise on navigation. This work covers military surveying and ballistics, as well as the location and transportation of drinking water. The headpiece at the start of the text contains native American motifs. Juan de la Cuesta was the printer of the first edition of Don Quixote.