Great Britain's coasting-pilot ... : describing all the harbours, rivers, bays, roads, rocks, sands, buoys, beacons, sea-marks, depths of water, latitude, bearings and distances from place to place, the setting and flowing of tydes, with directions for the knowing of any place; and how to harbour a ship in the same with safety ... / by Captain Greenvile Collins, Hydrographer in Ordinary to the King and Queens most excellent Majesties.

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Collins, Greenvile, active 1669-1698, Great Britain's coasting-pilot ... , 1693

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Creator:: Collins, Greenvile, active 1669–1698
Title(s):: Great Britain's coasting-pilot ... : describing all the harbours, rivers, bays, roads, rocks, sands, buoys, beacons, sea-marks, depths of water, latitude, bearings and distances from place to place, the setting and flowing of tydes, with directions for the knowing of any place; and how to harbour a ship in the same with safety ... / by Captain Greenvile Collins, Hydrographer in Ordinary to the King and Queens most excellent Majesties.
Additional Title(s):: Added engraved title page: Great-Britains coasting pylot
Published/Created:: London : Printed by Freeman Collins, and are to be sold by Richard Mount, bookseller, at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1693.
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : maps, illustrations ; 55 cm (fol.)
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2023 6
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/3458553
Classification:: Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:: Scales differ.
Notes:: "A complete complement of plates includes numbers 2-4, 5-7 (on one plate), 8,9, 12, 14-20, 24-34, 39, B, C, E-I, L-T, V, and W, with unnumbered maps for the River Avon, Kinsale, St. George's Channel, Bristol Channel, England, the British Isles, and Europe--i.e. 51 plates in all. Some of the numbered/lettered plates may lack their sigla. No recorded copy has all the plates."--English short title catalogue.
Title pages printed in red and black.
The second part has separate dated title page, pagination and signatures.
Signatures: part 1: [a]² b-c² d²(-d2) B-F² G²(-G2); pt. 2: [A]1 B-H².
Signature marks in part 2 enclosed by square brackets.
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.) C5358
English short title catalogue, R28567
Robinson, A.H.W. Marine cartography in Britain, p. 39-42
Verner, C. Captain Collins' Coasting pilot. In: Map Collectors' Series no. 58
BEIN: Manuscript index of charts and index of places in text pasted on front fly-leaves.
BAC Folio A 2023 6: Autographs: Ambrose C[illegible]; Tho. C[illegible]. Bound in full calf.
Subject Terms:: Browne, Col. M. -- Bookplate.
Coasts -- Great Britain.
Harbors -- Great Britain.
Lees, Edward Brown and Dorothy Livesey -- Bookplate.
Navigation -- Great Britain.
Form/Genre:: Engravings.
Nautical charts.
Pilot guides.
Atlases.
Contributors:: Collins, Freeman, printer.
Mount, Richard, -1722, bookseller.
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Contents (from part title pages): The first part. Being a new and exact survey of the sea-coast of England, from the River of Thames to the westward, with the islands of Scilly, and from thence to Carlile ... with directions for coming into the channel between England and France
The second part. Being a new and exact survey of the sea-coast of England and Scotland, from the river of Thames to the northwards, with the islands of Orkney and Shetland.

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