Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Seller, John, active 1658-1698
Title:: 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 ...
Published / Created:: [London] : And are to be sold by the author at the signe of the Marriners Compass, at the Hermitage-stairs in Wapping, [1671]-[1672]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas (2 volumes) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 45 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:: Scales differ.
Notes:: BEIN Copy 1: Added map: "A chart of the sea coasts of England, Flanders & Holland" wanting.
Exhibition History:: Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006)
Subject Terms:: Coasts -- Europe. | Navigation -- Europe. | Coasts -- Africa, North. | Navigation -- Africa, North. | Tweedale, John Hay, marquis of, 1645-1713 -- Bookplate. | Tighe family -- Binding. | Great Britain. Admiralty. Library. -- Stamp.
Form/Genre:: Atlases. | Nautical charts. | Pilot guides.
Contributors:: Moore, Jonas, Sir, 1617-1679, surveyor. | Darby, John, 1624 or 1625-1704, printer.