(Text Page to) English pilot for the Northern-Sea. (to accompany) The English pilot . northern navigation . London: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and Son. M,DCC,LVI. (1756).

Continues: Descriptive text: To sail between Orfordness and Burnham. Includes coastal profiles. 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"...

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Main Authors: Mount, John, Page, Thomas, 1704-1762
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: W. and J. Mount and T. Page 1756
Subjects:
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Greenland
Norway
Hope Island
Island C
Trinity Island
Cherry Island
Hope island
Lapland
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Summary:Continues: Descriptive text: To sail between Orfordness and Burnham. Includes coastal profiles. 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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