| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 5105 |  | Details | Blome, Richard | 1685 |
| Original Navigation Engraving by Richard Blome |
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Blome, Richard |
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| 1685 |
| LOC:88 |
| $300.00 | Blome--Richard | Original-Navigation-Engraving-by-Richard-Blome | Fine original copper-plate engraving "Navigation" from Gentleman's Recreation by Richard Blome. This plate, as many others in Blome's encyclopedia, was dedicated to an English nobleman. Show's a 17th century square-rigged sailing vessel with charts, a globe, compass and other navigation instruments.
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Dedicated to George Legge, Baron of Dartmouth, Master General of the Ordnance and many other titles.
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From Blome's "The Gentleman's Recreation. ... An Encyclopedy of the Arts and Sciences ... Horsemanship, Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Fishing and Agriculture. With a Short Treatise of Cock-Fighting." |