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MEDINA (Pedro de). L' ART de Naviguer de M. Pierre de Medine, Espagnol. Bussum. s.d. - MEDINA (Pedro de) L' ART de Naviguer de M. Pierre de Medine, Espagnol . Contenant toutes les reigles, secrets, & enseignemens necessaires à la bonne navigation. Traduict de Castillan en François, avec augmentation & illustration de plusieurs figures & annotations, par Nicolas de Nicolai, du Dauphiné, Geographe du Tres-chrestien Roy Henry II [...]. Bussum: De Boer Maritieme Handboeken, s.d. [6], 115 ff.: il.; 335 mm. A facsimile edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies worldwide, of the first French edition of Pedro de Medina's treatise, printed in Lyon by Guillaume Rouillé in 1554. The reproduction is based on a copy from the Antwerp city library and was printed offset by Samsom-Sijthoff of Leiden on laid paper. It is published in Bussum by De Boer Maritieme Handboeken, in co-edition with Unieboek, Patrick Stephens (Cambridge), Éditions des 4 Seigneurs (Grenoble) and U. Mursia (Milan), with binding and slipcase designed by Chris de Goede. The Art of Navigation by Pedro de Medina, a cosmographer active in Seville, was first printed in Valladolid in 1545 by Francisco Fernández de Córdoba, and is considered the first printed treatise dedicated exclusively to navigation techniques. It was widely disseminated and translated into several European languages. The French version, translated from Castilian Spanish by Nicolas de Nicolay (1517-1583), a native of Dauphiné and geographer to King Henry II, is, as the title itself suggests, augmented with several figures and annotations by the translator. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate