Bidspirit auction | GARCÍA FRANCO (Salvador). INSTRUMENTOS Náuticos

GARCÍA FRANCO (Salvador). INSTRUMENTOS Náuticos en el Museo Naval. Madrid. 1959. - GARCÍA FRANCO (Salvador) INSTRUMENTOS Náuticos en el Museo Naval . Madrid: Imprenta del Ministerio de Marina, 1959. 276 pp.: il.; 240 mm. A descriptive and historical catalog of nautical instruments preserved in the Naval Museum of Madrid, one of the world's most important repositories of historical nautical instrumentation. The volume inventories and analyzes the collection of navigational instruments gathered by the museum—astrolabes, quadrants, sextants, compasses, hourglasses, and other measuring and orientation instruments used in navigation from the 15th to the 19th centuries—linking the technical description of each piece with the historical context of its use and with the history of nautical astronomy and the art of navigation. Uncommon. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate