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BLUNDEVILLE, Thomas (fl. 1560-1602). A Briefe Description of Universal Mappes and Cardes, and of Their Use: and Also of the Use of Ptholemey his Tables. Necessarie for those that delight in reading of Histories: and also for Traveilers by Land and Sea. London: Printed by Roger Ward for Thomas Cadman, 1589.
4o (178 x 135 mm). Printer's device on title, folding woodcut plate of the Mariner's Quadrant. Rembôitage in a near contemporary limp vellum binding, covers with single gilt fillet border and gilt acorn tool at center; morocco pull-off case. Provenance: Harrison D. Horblit (bookplate; his sale part I, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1974, lot 128).
FIRST EDITION, EXCEEDINGLY RARE, especially with the folding plate. "This work contains curious notices of the situation of America, the Azores Islands, etc. The discovery of America and circumnavigation of the world are alluded to on the verso of B3 and subsequently throughout the work. Quaritch offered a copy, bound up with six other pamphlets, in 1899. Graesse, Lowndes, and Sabin are the only other bibliographies that seem to have been aware of its existence [at that time]" (Church). Alden & Landis 589/10; Church 137; Graesse I:444; Sabin 6022; STC 3145; Taylor Mathematical Practitioners 71.
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FIRST EDITION, EXCEEDINGLY RARE, especially with the folding plate. "This work contains curious notices of the situation of America, the Azores Islands, etc. The discovery of America and circumnavigation of the world are alluded to on the verso of B3 and subsequently throughout the work. Quaritch offered a copy, bound up with six other pamphlets, in 1899. Graesse, Lowndes, and Sabin are the only other bibliographies that seem to have been aware of its existence [at that time]" (Church). Alden & Landis 589/10; Church 137; Graesse I:444; Sabin 6022; STC 3145; Taylor Mathematical Practitioners 71.