The english pilot The fourth book. Describing the West-India navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly Delineating The Sea-Coasts, Capes, Head-Lands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage. With All the Islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes Bermudoes, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Carribe and Bahama Islands. Also A New Description of Newfound-Land, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jerzey, Dellewar-Bay, Virginia, Mary-Land, and Carrolina, &c. Shewing The Courses and Distances from one Place to another, the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other things Necessary to be known in Navigation. The whole being very much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions, not before publish'd. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations
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| Language: | English |
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London
printed for John Thornton , Hydrographer, at the Sign of the England, Scotland, and Ireland, in the Minories ; and Richard Mount, at Postern-Row, on Tower-Hill
1706, 1706
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | "The 'English pilot' series was first initiated by John Seller, but 'The fourth book' was issued under the partnership of William Fisher and John Thornton" (NUC). - English Short Title Catalog, N16939. - Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library. - Tooley, R.V. Maps and map-makers, p.61 |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource ([2],69,[1]p.,plates) ill.,maps 2° |