Sales catalogue 479: Maggs Bros

Date:
1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/45
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 479: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1545 A.D. [3951] [SACROBUSTO.] Chaves (Hieronymo de). Tractado de La Sphera que Compuso el Doctor Ioannes de Sacro- busto, con muchas additiones. Agora nuevamente traduzido de Latin en lengua Castellana por el Bachiller H. de Chaves el qual afidio muchas figuras, tablas, y claras demonstraciones. With numerous woodcut diagrams. T72¢le within woodcut border; Gothic Letter. With additional woodcut frontispiece. Small 4to. Vellum. Seville, Juan de Leon, 1545. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. LVI.). £45 Harrisse, Additions, No. 149. A valuable Spanish translation of Sacrobusto’s famous Sphere with inter- esting notes and additions by a celebrated cartographer of the New World. Jeronimo de Chaves, mathematician, cosmographer, and poet, was born in ‘Seville in 1525, and died in 1574. He was Professor of cosmography, when that chair was established at the Casa de la Contratacion; and amongst his publications was a map of America. He bequeathed his maps, instruments, and original cosmographical works to the Monastery of La Cartuja at Seville, inserting a clause which forbade their remova} under any circumstances. The Library was destroyed, however, and only some of Chaves’ geographical works could be rescued. The Espasa Enciclopedia comments upon the interest of this particular clause, ‘‘ both as regards the classi- fication of the works that were found, and with reference to the earliest cartography of the New World.’’ ‘Qn folio 27 there is a diagram in proof of the rotundity of the earth, which contains a small map of America, in which the Southern continent is more - clearly and better drawn than the Northern. This is of course the work of Chaves, whose large map of the New World is said to have never yet been printed.”’ Mexico City, the Amazon and the Rio de la Plata are especially marked. For an account of the celebrated Englishman John Holywood of Oxford, or Sacrobusto, see footnote to No. 3947 in this catalogue. 1545 A.D. [3952] JACQUINOT (Dominique). . L’Usaige de l’Astrolabe, Avec un Traicté de la Sphere. With numerous diagrams, one revolving, relating to Astronomical, Geo- graphical, Geometrical, and Trigonometrical problems. Small 4to. Levant morocco, inside dentelles, g. e., by David of Parts. - Parts, Jehan Barbé, 1545. IO 10S A curious early work shewing the use of the Astrolabe or early form of quadrant, and comprising a long series of problems and answers.
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