L'art de naviguer - Nicolas de Nicolai - Guillaume Rouillé - 1569

L'art de naviguer ... traduict de castillan en françois, avec augmentations et illustration de plusieurs figures et annotations, par Nicolas de Nicolai, Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1569

-Incomplete - lacking folding map and 4 leaves (4, K4, F1, F4).

-Modern limp vellum and custom green clamshell box

-Many interesting and important illustrations throughout giving descriptions of how to navigate by the sun, sea, starts and moon.

-A few annotations to the tables

This important treatise is the first practical description of navigation. The author, Medina, was said to be Cortes' captain and so this work was the first to give reliable instructions of sailing and reaching the Americas