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Record Nr.

UNISA996395692703316

Autore

Colom Jacob Aertsz <1599-1673.>

Titolo

The lighting colomne, or, Sea-mirrour [[electronic resource] ] : containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation ; setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads, depths and sands ; very curiously placed on its due polus-heighth [sic] furnished with the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another: never heretofore so clearly laid open, and here and there very diligently bettered and augemented, for the use of all sea-men. As also the situation of the northernly countries, as Island, the Strate Davids, the Isle of Ian-Mayen, Bear-Island, Old-Greenland, Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla: adorned with many sea-cards and discoveries. Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers pilots and lovers of the famous art of navigation. Whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together with new tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending nutill [sic] the yeare 1669

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : By Peter Goos, dwelling on the water, hard by the New Bridge at the Signe of the Golden Sea-mirrour, 1662

Descrizione fisica

[40], 115, [1], 108 p., [113] leaves of plates : ill., maps, charts

Soggetti

Navigation

Nautical charts

Astronomical instruments

Trade routes

Almanacs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Second part of the New shining sea columne or Sea Mirrour.  The first booke of the Westerne navigation" has caption title; separate pagination and register.

Imperfect: tight binding with slight loss of text.

Reproduction of original in: Queen's College (University of Oxford). Library.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0119