(Covers to) The English Pilot. Describing the West-India Navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly delineating the coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, and anchorage, with all the islands therein . also a new description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, east and west New Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, &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 much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. London: Mount and Davidson, M,DCC,XCIV.
Quarter bound in light brown leather with pale green marbled paper covered boards. Spine with gilt rules, with text in the second compartment, "English Pilot". Rare final edition of the Fourth Book of the English Pilot, which was published in five separate books, and was the first major se...
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Mount and Davidson
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| Summary: | Quarter bound in light brown leather with pale green marbled paper covered boards. Spine with gilt rules, with text in the second compartment, "English Pilot". Rare final edition of the Fourth Book of the English Pilot, which was published in five separate books, and was the first major sea-atlas published in England. Furthermore, the Fourth Book was the first wholly English sea-atlas of American waters. The English Pilot, taken as a whole, had a long and complex publishing history that illustrates the development of the chart trade in England during its formative period. Introduced in 1689, by John Thornton and William Fisher, the Fourth Book was the most successful of the five, and had the longest continuous run of editions. Phillips, Atlases, 1171 (1784 edition); Verner, A Carto-bibliographical Study of The English Pilot The Fourth Book (Charlottsville, 1960) 37; Cf. Verner, [facsimile] The English Pilot The Fourth Book (London: 1689); |
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