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BOURNE, WILLIAM. A booke called the Treasure for traueilers, deuided into fiue Bookes or partes, contaynyng very necessary matters, for all sortes of Traueilers, eyther by Sea or by Lande. London: [Thomas Dawson] for Thomas Woodcocke 1578. Small 4to, old blind-panelled sheep, cloth slipcase, upper cover detached, small hole to title and dedication leaf with loss to one letter of dedication, side-notes and errata leaf cropped, other lesser defects. FIRST EDITION, mostly black letter, full-page woodcut arms of the dedicatee on verso of title, numerous woodcut diagrams, some full-page, with the blank leaves ***4 and 3F4.
"Contained the first popular explanation of surveying by triangulation...the first English book to describe the volumes, capacities, and proportions of ships' hulls...the first to describe the sizes and weights of cordage...and explained in popular language the value of mathematics to the seaman"--D.W. Waters, The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times (London 1958), p. 147; STC 3432.
"Contained the first popular explanation of surveying by triangulation...the first English book to describe the volumes, capacities, and proportions of ships' hulls...the first to describe the sizes and weights of cordage...and explained in popular language the value of mathematics to the seaman"--D.W. Waters, The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times (London 1958), p. 147; STC 3432.