JF Ptak Science Books    Post 1999

This copy of Thomas Blundeville’s (1522-1606) work on astronomy and navigation contains some very fine examples relating to imaging the history of astronomy–a high-Renaissance work of scholarship and humanism.

The book has a long and detailed title: M. Blundeuile his exercises : containing eight treatises, the titles
whereof are set down in the next printed page : which treatises are very
necessarie to be read and learned of all young gentlemen, that haue not
beene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue
knowledge as well in cosmographie, astronomie, and geographie, as also
in the art of nauigation, in which art it is impossible to profite
without the helpe of these, or such like instructions : to the
furtherance of which art of nauigation, the said M. Blundeuile specially
wrote the said treatises .. with this copy being the fourth edition (corrected and augmented), and printed in London in 1613–an interesting edition, which contained the new data of the circumnavigation of Sir Francis Drake.  

[Sources: full text here via the Library of Congress; found via the pinterest collection of Trevor Owens.]