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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Period 17th century

Language English

1. A description of the sands, shoals, buoys, beacons, roads, channels, sea-marks, on the coast of England, from the South-Foreland to Orford-Ness : shewing their bearings and distances from most of the eminent places on the land : with the depths of water on the sands, as also in the channels between : with several other things necessary to be known : being accommodated with a new and exact draught of the sands, according to the said descriptions / discovered by Capt. Gilbert Crane and Capt. Thomas Browne, elder brethren of the Trinity-House ; and the sea-coasts surveighed by Jonas Moor Esq. ...

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Creator:: Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:: MDCLXXI [1671]
Physical Description:: [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : map ; 46 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Atlas maritimus, or a book of charts : describing the sea coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers : the bayes, roads, harbors, rivers, and ports in most of the knowne parts of the world : with the true courses and distances from one place to another, gathered from the latest and best discoveries that have been made by divers able and experienced navigators of our English nation : accomodated with an hydrologicall description of the whole world / by John Seller, Hidrographer to [the] Kings most excellent Majestie ; and by William Fisher, John Thornton, John Colson, and James Atkinson.

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Creator:: Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:: [between 1677 and 1679]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([4], 12, [2] pages, [79] leaves of plates) : 39 maps ; 46 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A caueat for the borower, or, A perfect table of vsurie : shewing how much the principall summe, with the interest, and interest vpon interest, from one pound to a thousand, amounteth vnto yearely for twentie one yeares, after the rate of ten in the hundred.

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Date:: 1602
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 44 x 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts