Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 250

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
GAZTAÑETA ITURRIBÁLZAGA, ANTONIO DE. Norte de la Navegación hallado por el Quadrante de Reducción. Title in red and black within type ornament border. 11 (of 13) engraved plates; numerous text diagrams; 2 folding letterpress tables; lacks the plate to face 3Z1, and the map of the northwest coast of Africa to face 4B1. [13] (of [14]), 185, [1] leaves; lacks the engraved additional title. Folio, 278x201 mm, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties; marginal worming not affecting text or engraved matter, dampstain in lower outer corner of last several leaves, contents otherwise generally clean, free endpapers lacking. Branded ownership mark of the Franciscan Convento de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Valladolid (CCMF/BF-12020) on top and bottom edges. Seville: Juan Francisco de Blas, 1692

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first edition of a manual on the use of the quadrant for navigation, based on a 1671 work in French by Guillaume Blondel Saint-Aubin. Alden 1692/77 (for coordinate tables for the Americas on leaves 180-185); Palau 100794.