This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... the publication till these are complete. Meanwhile navigators who wish to sail by the most perfect system of longitude, may use the general charts in the second volume, with the corrections in the portolani which bring them to the same perfection." "Most pilots who know the coast," he says, " prefer ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... the publication till these are complete. Meanwhile navigators who wish to sail by the most perfect system of longitude, may use the general charts in the second volume, with the corrections in the portolani which bring them to the same perfection." "Most pilots who know the coast," he says, " prefer to use their experience, and for them the general charts in vol. II are sufficient; but for sailing on the high seas by means of practical longitude and great circles, the new charts are of the greatest necessity. Therefore the author promises to publish this sixth book as soon as possible." It is probable that the publication was delayed as much by want of money to pay the engravers, as by want of time. The two first volumes of the first edition in the writer's possession (containing up to the fourth book) are printed on rough thick paper bound in light yellowish-brown leather with artistic gilding. In the centre of each side are the Medici arms, surrounded by a Cardinal's hat and tassels; on the back the title and numbers of the parts contained in the volume. They are fine old tomes that would delight a lover of old books. The third volume is twice the size of the other two in measurement, though not in thickness. It bears the date of 1647. The fourth is very ponderous and filled with maps. All these were printed at the Stamperia di Francesco Onofri, MDCXXXXVIII, a year later than the last. In 1661, twelve years after Dudley's death, a second edition of the Arcano del Mare was published in Florence,1 at the Sign of the Star, the new press of Giuseppe Cocchini, by the desire of Jacopo Bagnoni di Anton Francesco Lucini, con licenza de'superiori. It is announced under the usual title, as "a second edition, ...
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