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Title(s):
The English pilot : the third book : describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, streights, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers : the islands, bays, roads, harbours and ports in the Oriental navigation ... divided into three parts ... : collected for the general benefit of our own countrymen.
Published/Created:
London : Printed for William Mount and Thomas Page in Postern-Row on Tower-Hill, MDCCXLIII [1743]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (80 pages, [83] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 50 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2023 23
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13655426
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scales differ.
Notes:
Originally compiled and published in 1703 by John Thornton.
Depths shown by soundings. Relief shown pictorially in some maps.
Includes profiles.
The 83 leaves of plates comprise 41 double plates and one plate on a single leaf.
Adams, T.R. English maritime books printed before 1801, 943
BAC Folio A 2023 23: Bound in later calf. Includes annotations (19th century?).
Subject Terms:
Coasts -- Atlantic Ocean.
Coasts -- China Sea.
Coasts -- Indian Ocean.
Navigation -- Atlantic Ocean.
Navigation -- China Sea.
Navigation -- Indian Ocean.
Form/Genre:
Nautical charts.
Atlases.
Pilot guides.
Annotations.
Contributors:
Thornton, John, 1641-1708, cartographer.
Thornton, S. (Samuel), -1715.
T. Page and W. Mount, publisher.
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  • Contents (from title page): The first part, shewing the nature and properties of the winds and monsoons in the navigation from England to the East-Indies, and all over the Oriental Ocean, and thereby how to shape a course from one port to another, according to the time of the year in those seas
  • The second part, containing necessary instructions for sailing between England and the East-Indies, in the Spring and Fall
  • The third part, describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, streights, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks, and dangers. The islands, bays, roads, harbours and ports, from Cape Bona-Esperance, and over the Oriental Ocean, being very much corrected and augmented with several additions, not heretofore publish'd.

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