Cartes et plans
The English pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones. Particulary delineating the sea coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, strights, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, and anchorage, with all the islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama islands. Also, a new description of Newfoundland, Nex England, New York, East ans 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. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations [Texte imprimé]
Type de contenu
- Texte
Type de support
- Volume
Titre(s)
- The English pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones. Particulary delineating the sea coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, strights, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, and anchorage, with all the islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama islands. Also, a new description of Newfoundland, Nex England, New York, East ans 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. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations [Texte imprimé]
Publication
- London : printed for J. Mount, T. Page, and W. Mount, on Tower-Hill. M,DCC,LXXVIII
Description matérielle
- 4 p., p.3-66 p [41] f. de pl. (20 dépl.) : ill. (dont cartes gr.) ; F° (48 x 32 cm)
Note sur l'exemplaire
- traces de tâches d'eau dans les angles des bas de pages, dos de reliure abîmé
Note sur la provenance
- ouvrage ayant appartenu à Jean de Solminihac, don par convention en 2023
Note sur le contenu
- Ouvrage consacré à la navigation et comportant la description des ports, détroits, etc. ainsi que des cartes et des vues de côtes pour l'Amérique, des fleuves Hudson à Amazone
Sujet - Nom commun
Forme, genre ou caractéristiques physiques
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