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  An apollogie confirmation explanation and addition to the Vranicall astrolabe by the author.
  Date of publication:
  1597
  

  Author(s):

  Blagrave, John, d. 1611. ; Blagrave, John, d. 1611. Astrolabium uranicum generale.
  Description:
  Caption title. Imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.). Signatures: A-B⁴. Errata: p. [16]. Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
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  Astrolabium vranicum generale A necessary and pleasaunt solace and recreation for nauigators in their long iorneying, containing the vse of an instrument or generall astrolabe: newly for them deuised by the author, to bring them skilfully acquainted with all the planets starres, and constellacions of the heauens ... In which, agreeable to the hipothesis of Nicolaus Copernicus, the starry firmament is appointed perpetually fixed and the earth and his horizons continually mouing from west towards the east once about euery 24 houres. Fraught also by new deuise with all such necessary supplements for iudiciall astrology, as Alkabitius & Claudius Dariottus haue deliuered by their tables. Wherevnto for their further delight he hath anexed another inuention, expressing in one face the whole globe terrestriall; with the two great english voyages lately performed round about the world. Compyled by Iohn Blagraue of Reading Gentleman, the same wellwiller to the mathematicks. Anno. 1596.
  Date of publication:
  1596
  

  Author(s):

  Blagrave, John, d. 1611.
  Description:
  Signatures: A-H⁴ I² . Running title reads: The vranicall astrolabe. Reproduction of the original in the Library of Congress.
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  Baculum familliare, catholicon siue generale A booke of the making and vse of a staffe, newly inuented by the author, called the familiar staffe. As well for that it may be made vsually and familiarlie to walke with, as for that it performeth the geometrical mensurations of all altituded, longitudes, latitudes, distances and profundities: as many myles of, as the eye may well see and discerne: most speedily, exactly and familiarly without any maner of arithmeticall calculation, easily to be learned and practised, euen by the vnlettered. Newlie compiled, and at this time published for the speciall helpe of shooting in great ordinance, and other millitarie seruices, and may as well be imployed by the ingenious, for measuring of land, and to a number of other good purposes, both geometricall and astronomicall: by Iohn Blagraue ...
  Date of publication:
  1590
  

  Author(s):

  Blagrave, John, d. 1611.
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  Cf. Folger catalogue, which gives signatures: A-K⁴. Running title reads "The vse of the familliar staffe" or "The vse of the familiar staffe". Variant: imprint has "dwelling at Fleete #5FD\ Bridge". Reproduction of the ...
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  Noua orbis terrarum descriptio opti[c]e proiecta secundu[m]q[ue] peritissimos Anglie geographos multis ni [sic] locis castigatissima et preceteris ipsiq[ue] globo nauigationi faciliter applcanda [sic] per Ioannem Blagrauum gen[er]osum Readingensem mathesibus beneuolentem Beniamin Wright Anglus Londinensis cælator anno Domini 1596
  Date of publication:
  1596
  

  Author(s):

  Blagrave, John, d. 1611. ; Wright, Benjamin, engraver. ; Blagrave, John, d. 1611. Astrolabium uranicum generale.
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  Two engraved maps, the first terrestrial, the second celestial ("Astrolabium uranicum generale .."). Evidently intended to illustrate Blagrave's book "Astrolabium uranicum generale", but are not found in any copy of the ...
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