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1. Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie : teaching, by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c. : by the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflection shall shew a designe : by the dioptircks [sic], how to draw parts of many figures into one when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces : usefull for all painters, engravers, architects, &c. and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity / by Joseph Moxon ; hydrographer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty.

Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie : teaching, by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c. : by the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflection shall shew a designe : by the dioptircks [sic], how to draw parts of many figures into one when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces : usefull for all painters, engravers, architects, &c. and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity / by Joseph Moxon ; hydrographer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty.
Creator:
Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:
1670. (fol.)
Physical Description:
[6], 66 p., LX [i.e. 42] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The mariner's magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts : containing, the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler that resolves most mathematical conclusions : and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation ... with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places round the world ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation, in working a ship in all weathers and conditions at sea : a new way of surveying of land, by the mariners azimuth or amplitude compass ... : the art of gauging all sorts of vessels, and the measuring of timber, glass, board, stone, walls, cielings, and tylings : the art of gunnery ... astronomy, geometrical, instrumental, and by calculation : the art of dialling by a gnomonical scale ... : whereunto is annexed an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed relating to the customs and navigation : also a compen / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.

The mariner's magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts : containing, the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler that resolves most mathematical conclusions : and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation ... with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places round the world ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation, in working a ship in all weathers and conditions at sea : a new way of surveying of land, by the mariners azimuth or amplitude compass ... : the art of gauging all sorts of vessels, and the measuring of timber, glass, board, stone, walls, cielings, and tylings : the art of gunnery ... astronomy, geometrical, instrumental, and by calculation : the art of dialling by a gnomonical scale ... : whereunto is annexed an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed relating to the customs and navigation : also a compen / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.
Creator:
Sturmy, Samuel, 1633–1669
Date:
1669
Physical Description:
[34], 219 [i.e. 223], [7], 132, [6], 52, [52], 11, [3], 13 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : port, ill. ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A new system of geography : designed in a most plain and easy method ... : accommodated with new mapps of ... the whole world : with geographical tables explaining the divisions in each mapp / by John Seller ...

A new system of geography : designed in a most plain and easy method ... : accommodated with new mapps of ... the whole world : with geographical tables explaining the divisions in each mapp / by John Seller ...
Creator:
Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:
[1685]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([4], 112 [i.e. 110 p.], [53] leaves of plates : 51 maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts