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MOXON, Joseph.
A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie: or an easie and speedy Way to know the Use of both the Globes, coelestial and terrestrial. In six Books … Whereunto is added the antient poetical Stories of the Stars … collected from Dr. Hood. As also a Discourse on the Antiquity, Progress, and Augmentation of Astronomie … London, Joseph Moxon, 1659.
4to, pp. [16], 224, 40, with an additional Latin title-page (A1ᵛ, the text in letterpress within an allegorical engraved passepartout); small closed tear in title-page (no loss), woodcut and engraved diagrams, throughout; slightly foxed in places, else a very good copy; in contemporary sheep, worn, spine and rear cover dry and chipped; the text corrected in a few places in contemporary manuscript as usual; ownership inscription to front endpaper ‘E Libris George Musgrave’ (1630–1693).
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A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie: or an easie and speedy Way to know the Use of both the Globes, coelestial and terrestrial. In six Books … Whereunto is added the antient poetical Stories of the Stars … collected from Dr. Hood. As also a Discourse on the Antiquity, Progress, and Augmentation of Astronomie …
First edition of Moxon’s Tutor, the variant without ‘of’ before ‘Spherical Triangles’ on the title-page. The additional Latin title-page features portraits of Ptolemy and Tycho Brahe, a bird’s eye view of London before the Fire, and two female cognoscenti using Moxon’s globes and books.
Moxon had used the title A Tutor to Astronomy for his translation of Blaeu’s Institutio astronomica, published in 1654, but the title being ‘mine own … I hope I may be the bolder to use it when and where I list’, and hence he re-employs it on the present work, loosely based on Blaeu but adapted by Moxon.
‘This present volume is designed as a sales tool for the globes, maps and instruments available at his London establishment. In the preface he carefully states that his globes are the most up-to-date available in that they incorporate the latest geographic findings (he specifically mentions the recent Dutch discoveries of Hollandia Nova, Zelandia Nova and Van Dieman’s Land)’ (Tomash & Williams M140).
ESTC R23159; Wing M3021.