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WRIGHT, Edward (1558?-1615). Certaine Errors in Navigation. London: Felix Kingston, 1610.
3 parts in one volume, 4° (186 x 127mm). Collation: *10 8 A-Z, Aa-Ff, ff; Gg-Oo; Pp8 (Oo8 blank). Engraved title (with duplicate on verso of *2, both shaved with slight loss to outer margin), one folding woodcut and letterpress diagram ("the draught of the Meridians.."), one full-page and one half-page engraved illustration, 27 woodcut illustrations, 2 full-page. (Small paperfault hole in C4 with resulant loss of one or two characters, clean tear to outer blank margin of P1, Z5 shaved with slight loss to illustration on verso.) Old calf (extremities rubbed, spine chipped at head and foot).
A fine copy of the second edition. The first edition was published in 1599. "With rare lucidity, Edward Wright set forth in this book the mathematical formulae and tables which would greatly increase the value of the Mercator projection" The World Encompassed, 167. "But what made this edition of Certaine Errors into a navigation manual suitable for all seamen was the inclusion of a translation, made by a friend, of a standard Spanish navigation manual of 1588, Zamorano's Compendio del Arte de Navegar..." D.W.Waters The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times. STC 26020; Sabin 105573 (variant title, incorrect collation, "World map on engraved title page is one of the first to mention Virginia").
3 parts in one volume, 4° (186 x 127mm). Collation: *10 8 A-Z, Aa-Ff, ff; Gg-Oo; Pp8 (Oo8 blank). Engraved title (with duplicate on verso of *2, both shaved with slight loss to outer margin), one folding woodcut and letterpress diagram ("the draught of the Meridians.."), one full-page and one half-page engraved illustration, 27 woodcut illustrations, 2 full-page. (Small paperfault hole in C4 with resulant loss of one or two characters, clean tear to outer blank margin of P1, Z5 shaved with slight loss to illustration on verso.) Old calf (extremities rubbed, spine chipped at head and foot).
A fine copy of the second edition. The first edition was published in 1599. "With rare lucidity, Edward Wright set forth in this book the mathematical formulae and tables which would greatly increase the value of the Mercator projection" The World Encompassed, 167. "But what made this edition of Certaine Errors into a navigation manual suitable for all seamen was the inclusion of a translation, made by a friend, of a standard Spanish navigation manual of 1588, Zamorano's Compendio del Arte de Navegar..." D.W.Waters The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times. STC 26020; Sabin 105573 (variant title, incorrect collation, "World map on engraved title page is one of the first to mention Virginia").