The English pilot [electronic resource] : The fourth book, describing West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones. Particularly delineating the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, straits, 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, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellawar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and 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.
1761
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The English pilot [electronic resource] : The fourth book, describing West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones. Particularly delineating the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, straits, 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, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellawar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and 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.
Uniform title
English pilot. Book 4.
Created/published
London : Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and Son, on Tower-Hill, M,DCC,LXI. [1761]
Description
4,3-66 p.,plates : ill.,maps ; fol..
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The 'English pilot' series was first initiated by John Seller, but "The fourth book" was originally issued under the partnership of William Fisher and John Thornton (NUC; Verner).
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
The 'English pilot' series was first initiated by John Seller, but "The fourth book" was originally issued under the partnership of William Fisher and John Thornton (NUC; Verner).
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.
ESTC staff note
Verify title and imprint transcription, copy catalogued not in hand. The arrangement of books and parts of 'The English pilot' is based on Tooley, 'Maps and map-makers', p. 61.
Cited/described in
Tooley, R.V. Maps and map-makers, p. 61
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), N65954
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), N65954
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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