The English pilot : The fourth book / With an introduction by Prof. Coolie Verner.

The English pilot : The fourth book / With an introduction by Prof. Coolie Verner.

Publication Date
: 
1967

Publication Information
: 
Amsterdam : Theatrum Orbis Terrarum,

Volume
: 
4th ser., v.l

Physical Description
: 
1 atlas (xx, 50 pages, 31 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill., 21 maps ; 51 cm.

Subject Term
: 
Pilot guides -- Atlantic Ocean.
 
Navigation.

Series
: 
THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM: A SERIES OF ATLASES IN FACSIMILE ;
 
THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM SERIES OF ATLASES IN FACSIMILE ;

Additional Contributors
: 
Fisher, William, active 1677-1704.
 
Thornton, John, 1641-1708.
 
Verner, Coolie.

Bibliography Note
: 
Bibliography: page xiv.

Contents
: 
1st pt., Ch. II. Containing a description of Newfoundland, shewing the Capes, Head-Lands, Sounds, Bays, Roads, and Harbours, on the Said Coast ; together with what course you may steer from England to the Said Place.

Language
: 
English

General Note
: 
Reproduced from the copy in The British Museum.
 
Facsim. of 1st ed. published by William Fisher and John Thornton, London, 1689.
 
"Describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, islands, depths, rocks, shoals, sands, banks, and dangers from the river Amazons to New-found-land ; with all the West-India navigation, and the islands therein, as Cuba Hispaniola, Jamacia, Barbadoes, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbe Islands. With a new description of New-found-land, New-England, Virginia, Mary-land, &c. Shewing the courses and distances from on place to another, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currecnts, &c. By the information of divers navigators of our own and other nations."
 
"Edition limited to eight hundred copies."


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