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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
Title
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.
Publication
London : Printed for J. Mount, T. Page, and W. Mount, on Tower-Hill MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description
1 atlas ([2], 30 pages, [95] leaves of plates) : 49 maps ; 53 cm
Cartographic Detail
Scales differ.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary (?) cloth. Autograph: Charles Stewart.
Notes
The 95 leaves of plates comprise the frontispiece, four maps on single leaves, and 45 maps on double plates (folded at the inner margin). Three of the double plate maps are printed across two affixed sheets.
Depth shown by soundings.
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Engravings.
Nautical charts.
Pilot guides.
Atlases.
Also listed under
Great Britain England London.
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