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[GLOBES]. MARKHAM, Clements R; James Gairdner; E. M. Morgan.

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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82003
London, Hakluyt Society, 1889
£150

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.

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8vo., lvi, 229, [iv], 37pp., frontispiece, folding coloured map, original blue cloth gilt, light fade to spine, fine.

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