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.
Alternate 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.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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.
Contents:
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.
Subject Terms:
Coasts -- Great Britain. | Harbors -- Great Britain. | Navigation -- Great Britain. | Lees, Edward Brown and Dorothy Livesey -- Bookplate. | Browne, Col. M. -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Engravings. | Nautical charts. | Pilot guides. | Atlases.