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Author	Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.
Uniform Title	Certaine errors in navigation
Title	Errors in nauigation : 1 Error of two, or three whole points of the compas, and more somtimes, by reason of making the sea-chart after the accustomed maner ... 2 Error of one whole point, and more many times, by neglecting the variation of the compasse. 3 Error of a degree and more sometimes, in the vse of the crosse staffe ... 4 Error of 11. or 12. minures [sic] in the declination of the sunne, as it is set foorth in the regiments most commonly vsed among mariners: and consequently error of halfe a degree in the place of the sunne. 5 Error of halfe a degree, yea an whole degree and more many times in the declinations of the principall fixed starres, set forth to be obserued by mariners at sea. Detected and corrected by often and diligent obseruation. Whereto is adioyned, the right H. the Earle of Cumberland his voyage to the Azores in the yeere 1589. wherin were taken 19. Spanish and Leaguers ships, together with the towne and platforme of Fayal. By Edward Wright.
Alternative Title	Certaine errors in navigation.
	Voyage of the right Ho. George Earle of Cumberl. to the Azores.
	Errors in navigation.
Publication Info	Printed at London : [By Valentine Simmes and W. White] for Ed. Agas, 1599.

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Descript	[252], 29, [3] p., [3] folded plates : ill., maps
Note	Printers' names from STC; "White pr[inted]. pt. 2".
	Signatures: A⁴ 2-3[par.]⁴ B-C⁴ D² E-O⁴ 2A-2Q⁴; A-D⁴ (-D4) [E]¹.
	The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A".
	With a final errata leaf.
	"The voyage of the right Ho. George Earle of Cumberl. to the Azores" (caption title) is paginated and has separate register.
	A reissue, with cancel title page, of "Certaine errors in navigation".
	Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

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Author	Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.
Series	Early English books online.
Subject	Cumberland, George Clifford, Earl of, 1558-1605.
	Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title	Certaine errors in navigation.
	Voyage of the right Ho. George Earle of Cumberl. to the Azores.
	Errors in navigation.

Descript	[252], 29, [3] p., [3] folded plates : ill., maps
Note	Printers' names from STC; "White pr[inted]. pt. 2".
	Signatures: A⁴ 2-3[par.]⁴ B-C⁴ D² E-O⁴ 2A-2Q⁴; A-D⁴ (-D4) [E]¹.
	The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A".
	With a final errata leaf.
	"The voyage of the right Ho. George Earle of Cumberl. to the Azores" (caption title) is paginated and has separate register.
	A reissue, with cancel title page, of "Certaine errors in navigation".
	Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Author	Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.
Series	Early English books online.
Subject	Cumberland, George Clifford, Earl of, 1558-1605.
	Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title	Certaine errors in navigation.
	Voyage of the right Ho. George Earle of Cumberl. to the Azores.
	Errors in navigation.

Subject	Cumberland, George Clifford, Earl of, 1558-1605.
	Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
Descript	[252], 29, [3] p., [3] folded plates : ill., maps
Note	Printers' names from STC; "White pr[inted]. pt. 2".
	Signatures: A⁴ 2-3[par.]⁴ B-C⁴ D² E-O⁴ 2A-2Q⁴; A-D⁴ (-D4) [E]¹.
	The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A".
	With a final errata leaf.
	"The voyage of the right Ho. George Earle of Cumberl. to the Azores" (caption title) is paginated and has separate register.
	A reissue, with cancel title page, of "Certaine errors in navigation".
	Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

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