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ASPLEY, JOHN. Speculum Nauticum. A Looking Glasse for Sea-Men: Wherein they may behold a small Instrument called the Plain Scale: whereby all Questions nauticall, and Propositions Astromicall are very easily and demonstratively wrought...The third Edition corrected. London: Printed by Thomas Harper...to be sold by George Hurlock 1638. Small 4to, polished tan calf, morocco spine label, t.e.g., by Riviere, joints rubbed, inner margins of last three leaves renewed, I4 (colophon leaf?) lacking. Third Edition, woodcut diagrams in the text, woodcut initials and ornaments.
NO COPY LOCATED IN STC (861.6): "The copy formerly belonging to Henry Taylor was sold in 1955 and cannot be traced." Copies of the first edition of Speculum Nauticum, (London: Printed by T. Harper, 1624) were in the Phillipps & Robinson Trust collection (sale, Sotheby's London, 26 November 1973, lot 2244) and the Harrison Horblit collection (sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1974, lot 59); both lacked the colophon leaf. A "second edition corrected" was printed by Harper for Hurlock in 1632 (STC 861.3, locating just two copies, both in England). The Horblit sale catalogue notes (to the seventh edition, of 1668, lot 60): "All editions are rare, and the second, third and eighth seem to have disappeared altogether." A very influential book: the first edition was one of eleven works recommended to young seamen by Captain John Smith.
NO COPY LOCATED IN STC (861.6): "The copy formerly belonging to Henry Taylor was sold in 1955 and cannot be traced." Copies of the first edition of Speculum Nauticum, (London: Printed by T. Harper, 1624) were in the Phillipps & Robinson Trust collection (sale, Sotheby's London, 26 November 1973, lot 2244) and the Harrison Horblit collection (sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1974, lot 59); both lacked the colophon leaf. A "second edition corrected" was printed by Harper for Hurlock in 1632 (STC 861.3, locating just two copies, both in England). The Horblit sale catalogue notes (to the seventh edition, of 1668, lot 60): "All editions are rare, and the second, third and eighth seem to have disappeared altogether." A very influential book: the first edition was one of eleven works recommended to young seamen by Captain John Smith.