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SNELL, WILLEBRORD. Tiphys Batavus. 3 full-page engraved illustrations; woodcut text diagrams. [60], 109, [3], 62, [2] pages. 4to, contemporary
SNELL, WILLEBRORD. Tiphys Batavus. 3 full-page engraved illustrations; woodcut text diagrams. [60], 109, [3], 62, [2] pages. 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining portions of original backstrip, covers rubbed; light soiling on title, word in outer margin of illustration on page [100] partly cropped; cloth folding case. H. F. Norman bookplate. Leiden: Officina Elzeviriana, 1624
- Notes: first edition. "Snel's navigational treatise, named after the pilot of the mythical ship Argo, was largely devoted to a study and tabulation of Pedro Nuñez's rhumb lines, which Snel named 'loxodromes.' In 1537, Nuñez had been the first to demonstrate the spiral nature of these lines, which denote the quarters of the wind on navigational charts"--Norman 1964. Willems 224.
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