The English pilot : The fourth book / With an introduction by Prof. Coolie Verner.
TITLE:
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.
Additional Contributors:
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."
