Tractatus de globis et eorum usu.
A treatise descriptive of the globes constructed by Emery Molyneaux, and published in 1592, by Robert Hues. Sailing directions for the circumnavigation of England, and for a voyage to the Straits of Gibraltar (from a 15th century ms.)
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London, Hakluyt Society, 1889
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Hakluyt Society, first series, 79a & 79b. The two bound together but separately paginated.
The first contains the text of the English translation, A learned treatise of globes, by John Chilmead (1638). The title-page of the Latin original is dated 1594.
8vo., lvi, 229, [iv], 37pp., frontispiece, folding coloured map, original blue cloth gilt, light fade to spine, fine.
The first contains the text of the English translation, A learned treatise of globes, by John Chilmead (1638). The title-page of the Latin original is dated 1594.
8vo., lvi, 229, [iv], 37pp., frontispiece, folding coloured map, original blue cloth gilt, light fade to spine, fine.
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