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ZAMORANO, Rodrigo (1542-1623). Compendio de la arte de navegar. Seville: Andrea Pescioni, 1582.
4o (204 x 143 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, portrait of the author on title verso, 6 woodcut diagrams in text of an astrolabe, sphere, compass, etc. (one on O2r with volvelle in facsimile, others possibly lacking volvelles), folding woodcut plate of a sphere at end printed in red and black with volvelle. (Small wormhole in margin of last two leaves.) Contemporary limp vellum, contemporary ink annotations on covers; blue quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Marvin Carton (bookplate).
Second edition of this important manual on navigation by King Philip II's chief pilot and cosmographer. Zamorano's text was chiefly intended for voyages to America, and was translated into English by Edward Wright in his Certain Errors in navigation (1599, see lot 534). The work includes the earliest mention of a lubber's line on the compass bowl, which indicated to the helmsman the position of a ship's head in relation to the fly (see D.W. Waters, The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times, New Haven, 1958, p.29).
ALL EDITIONS OF ZAMORANO'S WORK ARE EXTREMELY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, the only copy recorded at auction since at least 1902 is the present one, when it sold at Sotheby's London, 3 July 1967, lot 208. In this copy the title-page is dated 1581 and corrected in manuscript to read 1582, while the colophon has the printed date of 1582. Six editions were published between 1581 and 1698. A copy of the fourth edition sold at Sotheby's London in 1962. Apart from that edition and the present copy, there are no records of the sale of any editions in England or America since the beginning of Book Auction Records in 1902. Alden & Landis 582/91 (Yale and Madrid Biblioteca national only); Palau 379248; Sabin 106246.
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Second edition of this important manual on navigation by King Philip II's chief pilot and cosmographer. Zamorano's text was chiefly intended for voyages to America, and was translated into English by Edward Wright in his Certain Errors in navigation (1599, see lot 534). The work includes the earliest mention of a lubber's line on the compass bowl, which indicated to the helmsman the position of a ship's head in relation to the fly (see D.W. Waters, The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times, New Haven, 1958, p.29).
ALL EDITIONS OF ZAMORANO'S WORK ARE EXTREMELY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, the only copy recorded at auction since at least 1902 is the present one, when it sold at Sotheby's London, 3 July 1967, lot 208. In this copy the title-page is dated 1581 and corrected in manuscript to read 1582, while the colophon has the printed date of 1582. Six editions were published between 1581 and 1698. A copy of the fourth edition sold at Sotheby's London in 1962. Apart from that edition and the present copy, there are no records of the sale of any editions in England or America since the beginning of Book Auction Records in 1902. Alden & Landis 582/91 (Yale and Madrid Biblioteca national only); Palau 379248; Sabin 106246.