Author
Hues, Robert, 1553-1632
Uniform title
Tractatus de globis et eorum usu
Title
Tractatus de globis, coelesti et terrestri eorumque usu. / Primum conscriptus & editus à Roberto Hues Anglo semelque atque iterum à Iudoco Hondio excusus, & nunc elegantibus iconibus & figuris locupletatus: ac de novo recognitus multisque observationibus oportunè illustratus ac passim auctus operâ ac studio Iohannis Isacii Pontani medici & philosophiæ professoris in Gymnasio Gelrico-Hardervici..
Varying form of title
Tractatvs de globis, coelesti et terrestri eorvmqve vsv
Imprint
Amstelodami. : Excudebat Iudocus Hondius, sub signo Canis vigilantis in Platea Vitulina prope Senatoriam Domum, Anno MDCXVII. [1617]
Physical description
[24], 130, [2] p. : ill. ; 20 cm (4to)
Note
Originally published as: Tractatus de globis et eorum usu, London, 1594.
Note
Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.
Note
Signatures: A-T⁴ V².
Note
Engraved title vignette of a globe; woodcut diagrams.
Note
Head-piece, initials, marginal notes.
Note
Volvelle on page 83.
Citation/references note
CLC, H1092
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
17th-century laced-case parchment; stiffened with paper boards; sewn on four tawed leather supports; fore-edge extensions; five narrow pieces of parchment manuscript waste used as spine linings; titles of volume contents written in ink on fore-edge; evidence of two pairs of ties at fore-edge; evidence of chain-plate on lower cover; later leather spine label with title (partially missing); date in ink at tail of spine: 1617.
Copy-specific note
Bound in a volume of mostly scientific works.
Subject
Globes Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612 printer.
Added entry--name
Pontanus, Johannes Isacius, 1571-1639 editor.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Amsterdam.
B14348
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