Blagrave, John (d.1611)

THE MATHEMATICAL JEWEL, SHEWING THE MAKING, AND MOST EXCELLENT USE OF A SINGULER INSTRUMENT SO CALLED. LONDON: (THOMAS DAWSON FOR) WALTER VENGE, [1585]

FIRST [AND ONLY] EDITION, folio (265 x 180mm.), 3 full-page woodcuts on 2 leaves preceding title: "The mathematicall jewell" (recto blank), and on one leaf "Margarita mathematica", verso "The reete", woodcut of an instrument on title-page, woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, one double-page table, contemporary vellum, first 2 leaves (with woodcuts) frayed and stained at edges, head of pages cut close at beginning affecting a few letters, somewhat soiled, binding somewhat soiled