STURMY, THE MARINERS MAGAZINE, LONDON, 1669, CONTEMPORARY CALF, REBACKED

FIRST EDITION, folio (288 x 185mm.), printed title in red and black, engraved additional pictorial title and 10 folding plates, one full-page illustration (on 4A1v), woodcut and engraved diagrams and illustrations in text, 2 leaves inserted between 2D1-2, folding table (between 3O2-3), with blank leaf 3R4, a few modern related items inserted at beginning, contemporary calf, lacking portrait (supplied in facsimile), some leaves spotted or browned, penultimate leaf soiled at edge, binding worn and rebacked; sold not subject to return

Radulph Wilbraham, contemporary signature on title; Mario (1925-1994) & Fiammetta Witt (née Olschki, 1921-2011), book label, sale, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 24 October 1996, lot 50, £1,100, Dennistoun; bought from E.M. Lawson & Company, East Hagbourne, 2002, Catalogue 303, item 78, £1,850

Tomash & Williams S210; Crone Library 265; ESTC R23470; Henderson pp.68-60 no. 48.0; Wing S6096; Adams & Waters 3475; Taylor, Tudor & Stuart 329

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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"This Mariners magazine is a compendium of useful information and is essentially a course in practical mathematics. It was designed to give practical advice to seamen (and others). It did not provide the latest scientific thinking and limited itself to only the information to perform a given function... [The] work is composed of several books on the topics of navigation, instruments, surveying, gauging, astronomy, dialing, gunnery, fireworks, fortification and a summary of penalties applied for smuggling" (Tomash & Williams). Four of the plates have a number of images, which if cut out, would combine to provide volvelles (compare with the second edition of this work, lot 625, where this has been done for three of the plates).