The Crone Library. Books on the Art of Navigation left by Dr. Ernst Crone to the Scheepvaart Museum in 1975 and Books on the same subject acquired by the Museum previously. Including a biography, a short history of the art of navigation in the Netherlands ands a list of the Crone collection of nautical instruments.

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Original publisher’s blue cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine, very thick large 8vo: frontispiece portrait, lx, 806pp., 5 maps, 54 facsimiles, references cites, abbreviations, index authors – other names – other headworks, index printers – publisher’s – booksellers – binders – principal customers, index place names with relevant printers – publisher’s – booksellers – binders – principal customers, list variants of place names in the imprints, index topographicus with serial numbers, index artists, concordance. Very fine copy., Volume 26: Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica.