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(Maps) Stevenson, Edward Luther PORTOLAN CHARTS, THEIR ORIGIN AND CHARACTERISTICS, WITH A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF THOSE BELONGING TO THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA.
(Mansfield Centre, CT Martino Publishing Co. 2001) 8vo. cloth viii, 76 pages
A facsimile of the original edition published by the Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1911 (Besterman 1153). This scarce catalogue, which includes an introductory essay and bibliography, describes thirty-two portolan charts belonging to the Hispanic Society of America, from circa 1425 to 1650, with fifteen black-and-white reproductions. The original is quite scarce, and it is no longer in print in any edition .
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 70958

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Peters, Hubert J.M.W. THE CRONE LIBRARY. BOOKS ON THE ART OF NAVIGATION LEFT BY DR. ERNST CRONE TO THE SCHEEPVAART MUSEUM IN 1975 AND BOOKS ON THE SAME SUBJECT ACQUIRED BY THE MUSEUM PREVIOUSLY.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1989 6.5 x 9.5 inches cloth lx, 805 pages.
More than 1220 entries elaborately described; five different indexes. With portrait, 5 maps, and 54 facsimile plates. Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 155.00 other currencies Order nr. 103284

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Stimson, A. THE MARINER'S ASTROLABE. A SURVEY OF KNOWN, SURVIVING SEA ASTROLABES.
Utrecht HES & DE GRAAF 1988 6.75 x 9.5 inches cloth, dust jacket 191 pages.
With a historical introduction and detailed descriptions of 65 mariner's astrolabes. All astrolabes described are illustrated on full pages. Richly illustrated.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 155.00 other currencies Order nr. 103320

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Wroth, Lawrence C. THE WAY OF A SHIP: AN ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE OF NAVIGATION SCIENCE ALONG WITH SOME AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ART OF NAVIGATION 1519-1802.
Foreword by John B. Hattendorf Providence The John Carter Brown Library 2011 6.25 x 10 inches hardcover 204 pages
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its original publication, the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University has issued a new edition of Lawrence C. Wroth's Way of a Ship (1937), the foundational bibliographic essay on the literature of navigation science, along with a reprint of Some American Contributions to the Art of Navigation, 1519-1802 (1947). A prolific writer, well known for his graceful style and extensive historical knowledge, Wroth served as Director and Librarian of the JCB from 1924 to 1957.

The Way of a Ship has been celebrated for its graceful brevity in dealing with the complex history of nautical science. Its origin in an exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library is evident in the arrangement of the chapters, each of which provides a short exposition on topics such as "The Search for an Infallible Method of Determining Longitude," "Prime Meridians of Earlier Days," "Charts of the Ancient World," and "The Mariners Instruments."

Several more recent studies of early modern maritime history, science, and literature owe a great debt to the authority of Way of a Ship, but Wroth's essay has also served as the basis for the development of some of the most significant collections of books on the history and science of navigation, including the Henry C. Taylor Collection, now at the Beinecke Library at Yale.

For many years, Lawrence Wroth worked on a revision to Way of a Ship that never made it to publication. Professor John B. Hattendorf, the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI, has pieced together Wroth's manuscript notes and corrections to the original text to create this edition. To the revised essay, Hattendorf has added an index, a list of the books on navigation that are cited in the text, and a new Foreword. New reproductions of illustrations and title pages - from the Collection of the John Carter Brown Library -- are distributed throughout the volume, which was designed by Mark Argetsinger (Rochester, NY). Only one thousand copies were printed in the US by Capital Offset (Concord, NH). It is handsomely bound in navy blue cloth with gold stamping.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 108376

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