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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. The English pilot : part III, describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports : together with the soundings, sands, rocks and dangers in the whole Mediterranian Sea : likewise the courses and distances from one place to another, the setting of the tides and currents, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the prospects of the lands, &c. : collected from the practice and experience of divers able navigators both of our own and other nations.

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Date:
MDCCIII [1703]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], 92 pages, [37] leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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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Creator:
Collins, Greenvile, active 1669-1698
Date:
1693
Physical Description:
2 volumes : maps, illustrations ; 55 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The English pilot : part I, describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports : together with the soundings, sands, rocks and dangers in the southern navigation upon the coasts of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, to the streights-mouth, with the coasts of Barbary, and off to the Canary, Madera, Cape de Verde, and Western Islands : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the setting of the tides and currents, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, &c.

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Date:
MDCCXLI [1741]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], 92 pages, [44] leaves of plates) : illustrations, 22 maps ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto-Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands : also, a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellevar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, 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 / by the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.

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Date:
MDCCLIII [1753]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (4, 3-66 pages, [43] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. 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.

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Date:
MDCCXLIII [1743]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (80 pages, [83] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Great Britain's coasting-pilot : in two parts : being a new and exact survey of the sea-coast of England and Scotland from the River of Thames to the westward and northward : with the islands of Scilly, and from thence to Carlisle : likewise the islands of Orkney and Shetland, 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 the tides : with directions for the knowing of any place, and how to harbour a ship in the same with safety : with directions for coming into the channel between England and France / by Captain Greenville Collins, Hyrdographer in Ordinary to the King's most excellent Majesty.

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Creator:
Collins, Greenvile, active 1669-1698
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], 30 pages, [95] leaves of plates) : 49 maps ; 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The English pilot : part V, describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers, ports : with the exact appearances and representations of the most principal marks, lands, &c. : together with the soundings, sands, shoals, rocks, and dangers, on the west-coat [sic] of Africa : from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Cape of Good Hope ...

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Date:
MDCCXXXIX [1739]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([2], 42 pages, [38] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The English pilot : describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers; the bayes, roads, harbors, rivers and ports in the northern and southern navigation shewing the courses and distances from one place to another : the setting of the tydes and currents : the ebbing and flowing of the sea : and many other necessary things belonging to the practical part of navigation : being furnished with new and exact draughts, charts, and descriptions, gathered from the latest and best discoveries that have been made by divers able and expert navigators of our English nation / collected for the general use of our countrymen, by Iohn Seller ...

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Creator:
Seller, John, active 1658-1698
Date:
[1671]-[1672]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (2 volumes) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts