A general chart of the Northern seas : describing the sea coast and islands from France to Greene-Land. F. Lamb sculp. (to accompany) The English pilot . northern navigation . London: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and Son. M,DCC,LVI. (1756).
Double page engraved navigation chart. Includes title cartouche and compass rose, oriented with north at right. Depth shown by soundings and rhumb lines. The second part of the English Pilot atlas, for the northern navigation. This edition published by John Mount and Thomas Page in London, 1756. Bou...
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W. and J. Mount and T. Page
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| Summary: | Double page engraved navigation chart. Includes title cartouche and compass rose, oriented with north at right. Depth shown by soundings and rhumb lines. The second part of the English Pilot atlas, for the northern navigation. This edition published by John Mount and Thomas Page in London, 1756. Bound in brown leather covers. The "English Pilot" was a sea-chart atlas published in several editions from 1671 to 1803. This edition consists of 78 pages of descriptive text, extensive sailing directions and coastal profiles, with 31 unnumbered double page and folding detailed navigation charts. Some charts engraved by Francis Lamb and Herman Moll. Showing grid lines, sandbanks, anchorages, bays, harbors, roads, buoys, settlements along the coasts, beacons and place names. Charts are embellished with compass roses, rhumb lines, title cartouche and coats of arms. Covering the Northern Europe, British Isles north to Scandinavia, the Arctic Ocean and Baltic Sea. Depth shown by soundings. Prime meridian is London. |
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