ENGLISH

Tractatus de Globis et Eorum Usu. a Treatise Descriptive of the Globes Constructed by Emery Molyneux : And Published in 1592, by Robert Hues. with 'Sailing Directions for the Circumnavigation of England, and for a Voyage to the Straits of Gibralta...

By Clements R. Markham

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2010
ISBN
9781409415855, 9781409413462
LCC
GA5 -- .H84 2010eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3359204 bytes)
Series
Hakluyt Society, First Series; 79a
Pages
348\0
Topic
Geography\\Geodesy. Cartography
Scanned
no
Time added
2023-08-08 20:25:07
Globes -- Early works to 1800.; HIS037040; NON0000

Description

The text is edited, with 'Annotated Indices and an Introduction'. In addition to the treatise, the volume contains 'Sailing Directions for the Circumnavigation of England, and for a Voyage to the Straits of Gibraltar, from a 15th Century MS' which originally appeared as Volume 79(b) in the series. The two sets of directions were originally bound together but separately paginated. The first contains the text of the 1638 English translation, A learned treatise of globes by John Chilmead (but 'usually attributed to Edmund Chilmead with apparent corrections'); the title-page of the Latin original is dated 1594. The 'Sailing Directions' are edited, with an account of the MS., by James Gairdner; with a Glossary by Edward Delmar Morgan. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1889.

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