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The English pilot. describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, islands, depths, rocks, shoals, sands, banks, and dangers from the River Amazons to New-found-land : with all the West-India navigation, and the islands therein, as Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Barbadoes, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbe Islands : with a new description of New-found-land, New-England, Virginia, Mary-Land, &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.

Title
The English pilot. The fourth book : describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, islands, depths, rocks, shoals, sands, banks, and dangers from the River Amazons to New-found-land : with all the West-India navigation, and the islands therein, as Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Barbadoes, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbe Islands : with a new description of New-found-land, New-England, Virginia, Mary-Land, &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. / by the information of divers navigators of our own and other nations.
Publication
London : Printed for William Fisher at the Postern on Tower-Hill, and John Thornton at the Plat in the Minories, 1689.

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Additional Authors
  • Fisher, William, active 1677-1704.
  • Thornton, John, active 1652-1701.
Description
1 atlas (23, 13-16, 5-50 p., [10+] leaves of plates) : ill., [7+] maps; 45 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
  • Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 312.
Subjects
Note
  • Depths shown by soundings.
  • Described in Coolie Verner's bibliographical note to the English pilot, The fourth book, London, 1689. Amsterdam, 1967. This facsimile of the British Library copy contains 21 maps on 35 leaves of plates.
Call Number
Map Div. 97-6037
OCLC
50797882
Title
The English pilot. The fourth book : describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, islands, depths, rocks, shoals, sands, banks, and dangers from the River Amazons to New-found-land : with all the West-India navigation, and the islands therein, as Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Barbadoes, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbe Islands : with a new description of New-found-land, New-England, Virginia, Mary-Land, &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. / by the information of divers navigators of our own and other nations.
Imprint
London : Printed for William Fisher at the Postern on Tower-Hill, and John Thornton at the Plat in the Minories, 1689.
Cartographic Data
Scales differ.
Local Note
NYPL copy imperfect: several maps wanting.
NYPL copy has modern calf binding.
NYPL copy provenance: stamped on t.p. and final page: Admiralty Office Library.
NYPL copy with: Part of North America. [London? : s.n., 176-?] 1 map ; 21 x 29 cm.
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Added Author
Fisher, William, active 1677-1704.
Thornton, John, active 1652-1701.
Research Call Number
Map Div. 97-6037 [LHS 312; atlas cases]
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