Baculum familliare, catholicon siue generale : A booke of the making and vse of a staffe, newly inuented by the author, called the familiar staffe. As well for that it may be made vsually and familiarlie to walke with, as for that it performeth the geometrical mensurations of all altituded, longitudes, latitudes, distances and profundities: as many myles of, as the eye may well see and discerne: most speedily, exactly and familiarly without any maner of arithmeticall calculation, easily to be learned and practised, euen by the vnlettered. Newlie compiled, and at this time published for the speciall helpe of shooting in great ordinance, and other millitarie seruices, and may as well be imployed by the ingenious, for measuring of land, and to a number of other good purposes, both geometricall and astronomicall: by Iohn Blagraue ...

Author/creator Blagrave, John
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Printed by Hugh Iackson dvvelling in Fleete-streete a little beneath the Conduit, at the signe of S. Iohn the Euangelist, 1590.
Description[8], 70, [2] p. : ill.
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Variant title Baculum familliare
Variant title Vse of the familliar staffe.
Variant title Use of the familliar staffe.
Variant title Vse of the familiar staffe.
Variant title Use of the familiar staffe.
Variant title Baculum familliare, catholicon sive generale.
Variant title Catholicon generale.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteCf. Folger catalogue, which gives signatures: A-K⁴.
General noteRunning title reads "The vse of the familliar staffe" or "The vse of the familiar staffe".
General noteVariant: imprint has "dwelling at Fleete #5FD\ Bridge".
General noteReproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
References STC (2nd ed.) 3118.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 280:05)
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