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Gunther, Edmund
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- The Description and use of the sector, crosse-staffe, and other instruments. With a Canon of artificiall sines and tangents...The Second Edition much augmented. London: William Jones for James Bowler, 1636
- Paper, Leather, Ink
Four parts in one volume, 4to (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; 190 x 138 mm). Additional engraved title and frontispiece, engraved plate, woodcut plate (1/2 page) of a sector between fols. K4 and L1 (intended as a volvelle for the figure on K4v), slip with woodcut table between 2F2 and 2F3, woodcut diagrams in the text, inserted leaf between L4 and M1 bearing the same text as L4 in a different typesetting (possibly from another edition), with blank leaf 3L2 and the inserted leaf "The use of the Canon" between 3L2 and the inserted leaf "The use of the Canon" between 3L2 and 3A1. Light dampstaining. Contemporary ownership inscription on recto of frontispiece, a few marginal annotations. Contemporary ruled calf, joints rubbed with some scuffing.
Literature
STC 12523; Waters, The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times (New Haven, 1958)
Catalogue Note
"One of the most influential scientific works on navigation ... all subsequent navigation manuals bear indelibly the stamp of its genius, for they are primarily treatises upon the solution of navigational problems by geometrical and trigonometrical methods."