Collection: Smith Collection
Name: The Lighting Colomne or Sea-Mirrour, Containing The Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation ; setting forth in divers necessarie Sea-Cards all the Ports, Rivers, Bayes, Roads, Depths, and Sands; very curiously placed on its due Polus-
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Date Published: 1668
Full Title: The lighting columne or sea-mirrour, containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation : setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads, depths, and sands; very curiously placed on its due polus-heighth furnished. With the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another: Never theretofore so clearly laid open, and here and there very diligently bettered & augmented for the use of all sea-men. As alsoo the situation of the northernly countries, as islands, the strate Davids, the isle of Jan-Mayen, Bear-Island, Old-Greenland, Spits-bergen and Nova Zembla: adorned with many sea-cards and discoveries. Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers pilots and lovers of the famous art of navigation. Whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together with new tables of the suns declination, with an new almanach. At Rotterdam, Printed for Gerard vander Vluyn, Bookseller dwelling hard by the Iron-bridge in the Pascart, 1668.
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Notes: Printed for Gerard vander Vluyn; 1668 - inscribed on map
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