A very necessarie and profitable booke concerning nauigation,
A 1584 London printing by Richarde Iugge of a navigation treatise by Jean Taisnier, a Flemish writer, aimed at seafarers and students of magnetism. Its pictures are black-and-white letterpress pages: large ornamented initial letters with figures, a balance-beam diagram of weights, and a geometric sketch of concentric circles and rays, offering a designer models for decorative capitals and simple scientific diagrams.












