Shelfmark
Gf.3.03
Main entry--uniform title
English pilot. Book 4.
Title
The English pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones Particularly delineating the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, straits, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, and anchorage with all the islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbados, Antegoa, Barmudoes, Porto-Rico, and the rest of the Caribbe and Bahama Islands. Also a new description of Newsound-Land [sic], New-England, New-York, east and west New-Jerzey, Dellewar-Bay, Virginia, Mary-Land, 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, not before published. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : printed for Thomas Page, and William and Fisher Mount, in Postern Row on Tower-hill, MDCCXXVII. [1727]
Physical description
[2], 66 p., plates : ill., maps (some folded) ; 48 cm. (fol.)
Note
"The 'English pilot' series was first initiated by John Seller, but 'The fourth book' was issued under the partnership of William Fisher and John Thornton;" note from ESTC and consistent with ECL copy.
Note
Not in Verner or Tooley.
Citation/references note
ESTC, N472471
Provenance
Book label of Nicholas Mann on front endpaper, recording donation to Eton College in 1754.
Binding
Mid 18th century blind panelled and sprinkled calf Cambridge style binding; blind tooled double fillet and roll frames.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Ce.1.09.
Subject
Navigation Handbooks, manuals, etc. Early works to 1800.
Subject
Pilot guides Atlantic coast (North American) Early works to 1800.
Subject
Pilot guides Carribean Sea Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form
Pilot guides
Added entry--name
Fisher, William, 1669 - 1691 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Thornton, John bookseller.
Added entry--name
Seller, John, active 1658 - 1698 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B48954