Blundeville, Thomas | His Exercises, Containing Eight Treatises..., London, 1606- [1605]

Blundeville, Thomas

His exercises, containing eight treatises [on arithmetic, the spere, the globes, Plancius his mappe, the astrolabe, navigation, maps, etc.] London: John Windet, 1606- [1605]

Third edition.

Eight parts in one volume, small 4to (187 x 136 mm). Gothic type, 4 folding woodcuts, woodcut illustrations and diagrams in-text, with the folding leaf containing 7 woodcut volvelles, etc., for cutting out and fixing in the appropriate places, as issued, woodcut initials, ornaments, and devices; title-page restored at outer margin, woodcut on folio 150 cropped at outer margin, lettering in outer margin of folio 375 verso defective; modern green morocco gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles; stain to upper board.

PROVENANCE

Brent Gration-Maxfield (stamp on turn-in of binding and characteristic extensive bibliographical notes in pencil to front endpapers; his sale, Sotheby's London, 24 November 1970, lot 42, purchased by Dawson's of Pall Mall)