Moxon, Joseph. - A Tutor to astronomy and geography. Or an e - Lot 156

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Moxon, Joseph. - A Tutor to astronomy and geography. Or an e - Lot 156
Moxon, Joseph. - A Tutor to astronomy and geography. Or an easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, coelestial and terrestrial... Teaching the rudiments of astronomy and geography, shewing by the globes the solution of astronomical... geographical..., navigation, astrological, gnomonical, trigonometrical problemes... With an appendix shewing the use of the Ptolomaick sphere... 4th edition corrected and enlarged. London, S. Roycroft, 1686. Small in-4, bound in full contemporary calf with smooth spine - top edge of second plate nibbled over a length of 10 cm and a height of 1.5 cm, beginning of a 4.5 cm split in the first jaw, 0.5 cm split in the tail jaw, loss of inner margin on pp. 240 (small) and 241 (6 x 2 cm), quire "X" out of order, a few ff. chipped - [3 ff.], 271 pp., [9 pp.]. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of the author (tear with loss at outer edge but no damage to portrait), 13 copper engravings in t, 1 full-page, 25 small woodcuts in t.
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