dudley robert sir (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 202.

No binding. 480 x 750 mm. In excellent condition. One of the great sea charts in Dudley's 'Arcano del Mare'. It is the first printed English nautical atlas. It was superior to any previous work in that the charts illustrated the whole world, the first time any outside of Europe had been included. It was the first atlas to use Mercator's projection throughout, and the earliest to show the prevailing winds, currents and magnetic deviation. Dudley improved upon the theory of navigating by the 'Great Circle', the shortest distance between two points on a globe. It would be the eighteenth century before cartographers used the projection consistently. During the great Dutch period not one atlas was produced using it. This chart of Iceland includes to the south west the fictitious island of Frisland, to the south east lie the Faroe Islands. Iceland itself bears a wonderful volcano spouting lava. The chart is copied from a Dutch model, as it says on the chart itself, and the source is the map by Joris Carolus. Dreyer-Eimbcke, Oswald. (2000). 'Cartographic History of Iceland', in IMCoS Journal no. 81 pp.13-33; Shirley BL Atlases M.Dud-1a no. 69.

Paperback. Zustand: Very good. First. "THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THE TOTAL DOMINANCE OF DUTCH SEA ATLAS PRODUCTION. . . ARGUABLY THE MOST SUMPTUOUS EVER PRODUCED." Florence: Francesco Onofri, 1646. First edition of the first four books. Folio (12 15/16" x 9 1/8", 327mm x 233mm). [Full collation available.] With 5 letterpress plates (4 printed recto-verso) and 82 (of 84) engraved plates. [Full plate count available.] Bound in contemporary stabbed limp vellum. On the spine, title in ink manuscript: "DEL/ L' ARCANO/ Del MARE". All edges of the text-block speckled red. Vellum cockled, and a little shrunken at the fore. Split at the upper back fore-corner. Front end-paper splitting, revealing the vellum spine-wrap. Lacking (collated against the Nordenskiöld copy) book I pl. 12 (a volvelle), the 5 letterpress "Effemeridi" to be inserted between pp. 26 and 27, the index (pointer) to book II pl. 2, the half-title and title leaves of the second volume (viz. books III-IV), book III pl. 9 (a cross-section of the second ship) and the second leaf of corrections. Rear end-papers and final 2 leaves wormed. Signs of damp at the spine to the end-papers, quire [pi] (with some old reinforcements) and the first plate (patent of nobility). Foxing to quires A-B. Stub tears or fold tears to a handful of plates, though those to the plate opposite pp. 10 and 53 are more substantial, the former affecting the image. Sanguine crayon underlining, marginalia and manicules throughout, and ink marginalia (mostly corrections) to 20 pages. Ink marginalia to nearly all the plates, mostly renumbering, with graphite numbering to the verso of the plates. Ink ownership inscription in an early hand to the title-page: "Es de la libreria reel colegio maior de Cuenca". Exceptionally sharp impressions of the plates, with all volvelles and strings intact. Sir Robert Dudley (1574-1649) was the illegitimate son of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and favorite of Elizabeth I, by Douglas, Lady Sheffield. After the death of Leicester's only legitimate son (also called Robert, known as Baron Denbigh) at the age of 3, a campaign of legitimization began that allowed him to inherit great sums (and the castle of Kenilworth), financing his career as an explorer. In 1594 he set off for the West Indies (to the displeasure of Elizabeth) and had mixed success in harassing the Spanish, though it did provide a good deal of cartographic and navigational experience. Between his own experience as both an explorer and a soldier, as well as the access to cartographic sources afforded by his nobility (the first plate is a facsimile of the patent of nobility granted by Ferdinando II, recognizing him as Earl of Leicester and of Warwick), he was well placed to revolutionize knowledge of seafaring. At the age of 72, Dudley published the first four books of a projected six, covering the principals of navigation, the principals of cartography (with 15 general maps of the world), the principals of maritime discipline and naval warfare, and the principals of the construction of ships and of naval fortifications. Two years later (the title-pages bear 1647 but the colophons indicate publication in 1648), the fifth and six books came out -- in a different format -- but the work as of 1646 is complete in the present volume. The Arcano represents a number of firsts: the first sea-atlas compiled by an Englishman, the first atlas with all charts uniformly on the Mercator projection, the first to show harbor winds and currents, the first to give magnetic declination. The third chart (Burden 266) contains the first printed sea chart of the West coast of North America. The Colegio Mayor de Cuenca, founded in Salamanca in 1510, is one of the six "classical" Spanish colleges, and among the oldest. Acquired at the sale of Robert Harbison Power (1926-1991), Christie's New York 8 November 1996, lot 71. Burden, North America 266 & 267; Nordenskiöld I:70; Phillips, Library of Congress 458.

Large folio (500 x 560 mm). Book 1: (4), 30 pp., with engraved vignette of navigational instrument on printed title-page; double-page-sized engraved plate (facsimile of the Patent), 28 engraved plates including 24 volvelles: 21 with 29 moveable parts and 3 with strings. Book 2: 24 pp., 9 engraved plates with 6 volvelles (and 9 moveable parts), lacking the 15 engraved maps. Book 3: 25, (1) pp., 6 engraved plates. Book 4: 12 pp, 14 engraved plates (7 of which are double-page-sized). Book 5: 26 pp., 89 engraved plates, 36 with volvelles (with 61 moveable parts, another loose, and 5 strings), 4 double-page-sized. Without Book 6 (containing the Sea Charts). In all, 146 engraved plates, of which 66 show one or more volvelles, with 100 moveable parts. Full contemporary calf, ornate gilt spine with original red calf gilt title label. Includes Dudley's maritime map of the Indian Ocean, with the east of the Arabian Peninsula. Second (and arguably best) edition of Dudley's landmark work on shipbuilding, nautical and astronomical instruments and navigation, all profusely illustrated with engravings. Book 1 deals with longitude; book 2 covers the errors which can be made when drawing sea-charts; book 3 deals with military and naval manoeuvres and exercise; book 4 describes the method of designing and building ships, on which this present work is the first scientific publication; book 5 is devoted to the art of navigation. Book 6, which is not present here, contains the sea atlas. The "Arcano del Mare (secrets of the sea) . is an encyclopedia of everything connected with the sea from shipbuilding to navigation to cartography. This volume contains the text and volvelles for the sections devoted to navigation. It has been said that this volume is to the history of precision instruments of the seventeenth century what Peter Apian's Astronomicum Caesareum was to the sixteenth" (Tomash & Williams). - The engraver employed for the immense task was Antonio Francesco Lucini, born in Florence in 1605. Lucini states in this second edition of 1661 that he worked for twelve years in a small Tuscan village, using 5,000 pounds of copper to make the plates. They represent the finest of Italian capabilities, the clarity of the engraving presenting an uncluttered image. Even the florid italic calligraphy, while fulfilling a purpose, is of the highest standard. - This is an example of the first volume only, containing books 1-5 of 6 but lacking the 15 general maps. The Library of Congress possesses a similar volume, and Phillips describes in detail the differing collations of Books 1-5. "The remainder of the work consists of writings to explain navigation, latitude and longitude, winds, tides, military and naval warfare, naval architecture, and instruments. Dudley illustrates his constructions and supplies working models with volvelles and pointers which can be moved for calculations [.] Up to about 1946, the Specola Museum in Florence possessed working wooden models of the instruments devised by Dudley. Unfortunately they were unwittingly destroyed in a building's incinerator during a fuel shortage" (Dilke). - Hinges restored preserving original spine. Generally in very good condition. - Bookplate of the Institution of Naval Architects, Scott Library collection, recording presentation of the book by Mr. R. E. Scott, July 1930, on front pastedown. - Phillips 3428. Shirley, M.Dud-1b. Dilke, "Sir Robert Dudley's contribution to cartography", in: The Map Collector 19 (June 1982), pp. 10-14. The A. E. Nordenskiöld Collection 70. Tomash & Williams D69.

Sin Encuadernar. Zustand: Aceptable. . (illustrator). Atlas Nautico "Dell'Aracano del Mare. Primer Atlas Nautico en incluir todo el Mundo. Año 1646. Imp. en Florencia por Francesco Onofri. Grabador: Antonio Francesco Lucini. Lámina 49.5x63 cm. Mapa 32.5x49 cm. Texto en Italiano. Reproducción, Edición de: Tirada de 400 ejemplares únicos, numerados, ejem. Nº 274. En un viejo papel de hilo verjurado, especialmente fabricado por Joseph Guarro, con nombre y escudo figurado en la filigrana al agua. No tiene año (creo que es de los años 1950) # cartografía.

No binding. 480 x 750 mm., in good condition. This sea chart displays the west coast of Africa along with the islands of St. Helena & Ascension. It is in the rarer FIRST STATE from 1648. It appeared in Sir Robert Dudley's 'Arcano del Mare', the first printed English nautical atlas. It was superior to any previous work in that the charts illustrated the whole world, the first time any outside of Europe had been included. It was the first atlas to use Mercator's projection throughout, and the earliest to show the prevailing winds, currents and magnetic deviation. Dudley improved upon the theory of navigating by the 'Great Circle', the shortest distance between two points on a globe. It would be the eighteenth century before cartographers used the projection consistently. During the great Dutch period not one atlas was produced using it. This chart of part of the Azores takes in the island of Corvo and a fictitious uninhabited island nearby. Shirley (2004) Atlases M.Dud-1a no. 82.

Single sheet (20 4/8 x 16 inches, full margins showing the plate mark). A fine engraved map of the area surrounding Fiji to the north and east by Antonio Lucini, decorated with an elegant compass rose and two-masted ship, with cursive script and the title in a decorative cartouche lower left. A simple and beautiful chart from Dudley's "Dell'arcano del mare", featuring several South Pacific islands located within the northern Tongan Island group of Tongatatapu situated east of Fiji as well as some islands in the Wallis and Futuna group situated north of Fiji. "These particular islands were discovered by Dutch explorers Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten on their 1615-1616 voyage westward from Tierra del Fuego. Their further discoveries included notably Cocos Island [i.e. Tafahi in Tongatapu] on 9th May 1616, and Verraders Island [i.e. Niuatoputapu] just to the south, and to the northwest Good Hope Island [i.e. Niuafo'ou], then sailing further north-west to Hornsche Island [i.e. Alofi] and then Horne Island [i.e. Futuna, both in the Horn Islands, part of the Futuna and Wallis islands group] on 18th May, where they were cordially received by the natives" (National Library of Australia). Although sighted by Abel Tasman on his voyage of 1643, Fiji was not charted properly until Captain Bligh's epic journey of 3,618 nautical mile in a small open boat to Timor after the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789. Robert Dudley's "Secrets of the Sea" is "ONE OF THE GREATEST ATLASES OF THE WORLD and one of the most complex ever produced: it is the first sea-atlas of the whole world; the first with all the charts constructed using Mercator's new projection, as corrected by Edward Wright; the first to give magnetic declination; the first to give prevailing winds and currents. the first to expound the advantages of "Great Circle Sailing"; and . the first sea-atlas to be compiled by an Englishman." (Lord Wardington). Dudley's monumental work was the only exception to the total dominance of sea-atlas production by the Dutch for nearly a century. The complete work contained nearly 150 sea charts as well as dozens of illustrations and working diagrams. It was superior to any previous work in that the charts illustrated the whole world, the first time any outside of Europe had been included. His atlas was also the first to importantly show the prevailing winds, currents and magnetic deviation. In using the projection developed by Mercator, Dudley improved upon the theory of navigating by the "Great Circle," the shortest distance between two points on a globe. It was not until the eighteenth century that cartographers used the projection consistently, and during the prolonged period when the Dutch dominated cartographic production, not one atlas was published using it. This magnificently engraved work is an encyclopedia of seventeenth-century knowledge regarding the seas. Dudley was one of the more colorful and adventurous characters in the history of mapmaking. The illegitimate son of the Earl of Leicester and Lady Douglas Sheffield, but unable to establish his claim to the title of Earl of Leicester, Dudley left England in 1605. Arriving in Florence, Dudley entered the service of the Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, as an engineer and naval commander. In 1646, Dudley published "Arcano del mare", the whole written in Italian by Dudley himself. The atlas was twelve years in the making, and the main innovation lay in its conception of a world atlas of charts, both general ocean charts and detailed surveys, covering all the rival spheres of European dominion: Spanish, English and Dutch. Dudley's sources included the original charts of Henry Hudson, and for the Pacific coast he used the observations of Henry Cavendish, the third circumnavigator of the globe and Dudley's brother-in-law. Catalogued by Kate Hunter at Arader Galleries.