Certaine errors in nauigation : arising either of the ordinarie erroneous making or vsing of the sea chart, compasse, crosse staffe, and tables of declination of the sunne, and fixed starres detected and corrected. By E.W.
1599
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Details
Title
Certaine errors in nauigation : arising either of the ordinarie erroneous making or vsing of the sea chart, compasse, crosse staffe, and tables of declination of the sunne, and fixed starres detected and corrected. By E.W.
Uniform title
Certaine errors in navigation
Created/published
Printed at London : By Valentine Sims [and W. White], 1599.
Description
[250], 29, [3] p., plates : ill., maps ; (4to)
Associated name
Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615. author.
Note
Dedication signed: Edw: Wright.
Signatures: A⁴(-A4) 2[par.]-3[par.]⁴ B-C⁴ D² E-O⁴, 2A-2Q⁴, ²A-D⁴(-D4) ²[E]1.
"White pr[inted]. pt. 2"--STC.
"The voyage of the right Ho. George Earle of Cumberl. to the Azores, &c." (caption title) is paginated and has separate register.
With a final errata leaf.
Signatures: A⁴(-A4) 2[par.]-3[par.]⁴ B-C⁴ D² E-O⁴, 2A-2Q⁴, ²A-D⁴(-D4) ²[E]1.
"White pr[inted]. pt. 2"--STC.
"The voyage of the right Ho. George Earle of Cumberl. to the Azores, &c." (caption title) is paginated and has separate register.
With a final errata leaf.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo. DFoBLN̲OTE jre: pag: ...19 [ie. 29], [3] p.; p. 29 is misnumbered 19; DFo part 1 with one folded 'plate'
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2010. Lost at Sea.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 26019
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S101874
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S101874
Genre/form
Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 26019 Part 1
Folger-specific note
Curatorial file available. 214619. Part 1 only. Errata leaf from part 2 (from another copy?) bound before B1. Print show-through. Some leaves wormed or trimmed at fore-edge , affecting text. Limp vellum binding. Provenance: inscription on t.p.: "Dudley Lovelace"; inscription on front end-paper: "John Scott Russell with [Sir Matthew] Digby Wyatts' kind regards. Septr. [crossed out 1866] 1864."; pencilled MS. note on back paste-down: "Coll J.W."; bought by the Folger from Arthur Freeman, Sept. 1976
Call number
STC 26019 Part 2
Folger-specific note
cs1119. Part 2 only. MS. markings: scattered words inked out. Foxed, affecting text. Red goatskin armorial binding, by C. Lewis; all edges gilt. Provenance: gilt arms (and bookplate) of Hon. Thomas Grenville; armorial bookplate of the Lenox Library (motto "auctor pretiosa facit"); bought by Folger from Barnard, 1922, cat. 133:42