The English Pilot, for the Southern Navigation: describing the Sea-Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Bays, Roads, Harbours, Rivers and Ports: together with the Soundings, Sands, Rocks and Dangers on the Coast of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, to the Streight's-Mouth; with the Coasts of Barbary, and off to the Canary, Madeira, Cape de Verde and Western-Islands. .

Publication date: 1758

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Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United KingdomMaggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA

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Folio (475 x 305 mm), [ii], 96pp, 22 engraved charts, most double-page, two engraved text illustrations, many woodcut harbour charts and coastal profiles set in the text. London: Mount & Page [William and John Mount, Thomas Page (II) and Thomas (III)], Uncommon late printing of the 'English Pilot' volume for the 'Southern Navigation', for the use of mariners in European waters, covering the coasts from Scotland southwards, with the Atlantic coasts of Ireland, France and Spain round to the Straits of Gibraltar.   This was the principal English pilot book for the region for the period. This copy was published during the Seven Years' War, when fears of a French invasion were at their height, and covers those areas most likely to be the scene of naval actions or landings.    The chart composition of the book can vary between copies; this copy is without the chart of the Forth of Forth and two charts of the Dutch coast found in some editions, but has an additional chart of the 'Westerne Islands'. ESTC records three American locations; Adams and Waters add the National Maritime Museum and two further American locations.…

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The English Pilot, for the Southern Navigation: describing the Sea-Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Bays, Roads, Harbours, Rivers and Ports: together with the Soundings, Sands, Rocks and Dangers on the Coast of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, to the Streight's-Mouth; with the Coasts of Barbary, and off to the Canary, Madeira, Cape de Verde and Western-Islands. .
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1758

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Established in 1853, Maggs Brothers is one of the world's oldest antiquarian booksellers still operating today. We sell books worldwide through the internet as well as from our regularly published catalogues, and we are delighted to welcome customers to our two premises in Bloomsbury and Mayfair.

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