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WRIGHT, EDWARD. Certain Errors in Navigation. Detected and Corrected...With many Additions that were not in the former Editions. London: Printed by Joseph Moxon 1657. Small 4to, modern tan calf gilt, some upper portions darkened throughout from old damp and some old stains also at lower and inner portions at end, upper border of title cropped, small hole catching two words on Pp2, two ink blots on world map which is also worn at center of two central folds. Third edition, engraved title within a panel border comprising a world map on Mercator's projection (re engraved after the map on the second edition title) at foot and navigation instruments above, 4 inserted woodcut diagrams, 6 metal engravings, two of them full-page, numerous woodcut diagrams in text, TWO ENGRAVED FOLDING MAPS (AZORES AND THE WRIGHT-MOXON WORLD MAP). Sabin 105574; Wing W 3689.
Engraved maps
[Title-page: World]. Engraved copy of the 1610 edition showing the
same map with changes (e.g. California now shown as an
island). See Shirley, p. XXXVIII, illus.
A Particular Platt for Sailing to the Isles of Azores, 268 x 385 mm.
(10 5/8 x 15 3/16 in.), with margins, a few manuscript
compass markings
A Plat of all the World. Projected according to the truest Rules.
Being far more exact then either the Plain-Card or the
Maps of the World discribed in two Rounds. First set
forth by Mr. Edw. Wright and now newly corrected and inlarged with many New Discoveries by Jos. Moxon. And
Sold at his Shop in Cornhill at the sign of Atlas. 1655.
Engraved on two joined sheets, together 533 x 775 mm.
(21 15/16 x 30 3/4 in.)
This rare world map is a direct descendant of the celebrated Edward
Wright-Emeric Molyneux map of the world, London 1599, one of the first to be presented using Mercator's projection, which is very occasionally found in the second volume of Hakluyt's Voyages. For the 1610 second edition of Wright's Certaine Errors, William Kip engraved
another world map on Mercator's projection which follows the Wright-
Molyneux map with amendments. The William Kip map is exceptionally rare and, possibly due to its larger size, was seldom bound up with
the book (only one copy survives this way). A later issue of c. 1642-1646 by Peter Stentt, does not survive and is only known by the
erasure of a prior imprint on the present Wright-Moxon world map.
"Either Stent or Moxon carried out extensive amendments to the 1610
plates. The large royal coat-of-arms in the top left-hand corner has
been erased, a new cartouche placed in the lower left-hand corner, and all the coastlines rehatched. Among the geographical changes are
a new Hudson's Bay, the addition of Australia (noted as 'Discovered 1644') and the incorrect redrawing of California as an island."
-- Shirley, The Mapping of the World, 396, plate 296 (also 221,
plate 177 and 272, plate 214 for Wright-Molyneux and Wright-Kip maps
respectively).
Engraved maps
[Title-page: World]. Engraved copy of the 1610 edition showing the
same map with changes (e.g. California now shown as an
island). See Shirley, p. XXXVIII, illus.
A Particular Platt for Sailing to the Isles of Azores, 268 x 385 mm.
(10 5/8 x 15 3/16 in.), with margins, a few manuscript
compass markings
A Plat of all the World. Projected according to the truest Rules.
Being far more exact then either the Plain-Card or the
Maps of the World discribed in two Rounds. First set
forth by Mr. Edw. Wright and now newly corrected and inlarged with many New Discoveries by Jos. Moxon. And
Sold at his Shop in Cornhill at the sign of Atlas. 1655.
Engraved on two joined sheets, together 533 x 775 mm.
(21 15/16 x 30 3/4 in.)
This rare world map is a direct descendant of the celebrated Edward
Wright-Emeric Molyneux map of the world, London 1599, one of the first to be presented using Mercator's projection, which is very occasionally found in the second volume of Hakluyt's Voyages. For the 1610 second edition of Wright's Certaine Errors, William Kip engraved
another world map on Mercator's projection which follows the Wright-
Molyneux map with amendments. The William Kip map is exceptionally rare and, possibly due to its larger size, was seldom bound up with
the book (only one copy survives this way). A later issue of c. 1642-1646 by Peter Stentt, does not survive and is only known by the
erasure of a prior imprint on the present Wright-Moxon world map.
"Either Stent or Moxon carried out extensive amendments to the 1610
plates. The large royal coat-of-arms in the top left-hand corner has
been erased, a new cartouche placed in the lower left-hand corner, and all the coastlines rehatched. Among the geographical changes are
a new Hudson's Bay, the addition of Australia (noted as 'Discovered 1644') and the incorrect redrawing of California as an island."
-- Shirley, The Mapping of the World, 396, plate 296 (also 221,
plate 177 and 272, plate 214 for Wright-Molyneux and Wright-Kip maps
respectively).