Celestial & terrestial navigation manual for sea captains.

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Valk, Gerard. t Werkstellige der Sterre-Konst, zoo na de eerste, als de tweede beweeging; mitsgaders van de toestand des aard-kloots, In t gebruyk van der zelver hemel en aard-globen; beneffens de bysondere nieuwen planeten-wyzer. Vertoont door een liefhebber dezer konsten. En zyn door Gerard Valk, op t koper gebragt, en gesneden; (corrected imprint on overslip:) Werdende by dezelve op t volmaaktste uitgegeven. Tot Amsterdam, op den Dam, in de wakkeren hont. Met privilegie. Amsterdam, Gerard Valk [c1700]. 4to. [3]f including engraved allegorical frontispiece, title leaf and 2 page introduction + 140p + 4 engraved folding plates. Contemporary light brown morocco, gilt, with arms giltstamped in centres of sides; edges gilt; worn. An updated version of the famous globe-manual by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Tweevoudighe onderwijs van de hemelsche en aerdsche Globen, Amsterdam 1655) instructing sea captains how to navigate their ships with the aid of terrestial and celestial globes and observion of the stars and planets. The compiler and engraver, Gerard Valk (1650-1726), was an Amsterdam printseller and cartographer in the Damm who specialized in producing world maps and globes based on the latest scientific discoveries. A good copy with the arms of the now extinct family of Callenberg; Johann Alexander Count von Callenberg (1697-1776) formed a library at Branitz Castle in Lusatia. The comital title was granted in 1671. For the arms, see Rietstap I,p355. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1469302279685

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