Detail View: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: Text: Description of the coast of Norway, Between Jelteford, and High - Head of Horrel
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Author:
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Mount, John
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Author:
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Page, Thomas, 1704-1762
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Date:
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1756
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Short Title:
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Text: Description of the coast of Norway, Between Jelteford, and High - Head of Horrel
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Publisher:
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W. and J. Mount and T. Page
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Publisher Location:
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London
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Type:
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Text Page
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Obj Height cm:
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48
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Obj Width cm:
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31
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Note:
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Descriptive text. Includes coastal profiles.
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Full Title:
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(Text Page to) Description of the coast of Norway, Between Jelteford, and High - Head of Horrel. (to accompany) The English pilot ... northern navigation ... London: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and Son. M,DCC,LVI. (1756).
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List No:
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13301.054
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Page No:
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45
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Series No:
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54
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Publication Author:
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Mount, John
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Publication Author:
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Page, Thomas, 1704-1762
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Pub Date:
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1756
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Pub Title:
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The English pilot : Describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers : the bays, roads, harbours, rivers and ports in the whole northern navigation : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the setting of the tides and currents, the ebbing and flowing of the sea : with many other things belonging to the art of navigation … describing the north coast of England and Scotland, with the Islands of Orkney, Shetland, Lewis, Farro, Ireland, &c : the sea-coast of Flanders, Zealand, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Lapland, Russia, the islands of Waigats, and Nova Zembla as far as the Tartarian Sea : also Greenland, Trinity-Island, Cherry-Island, Hope-Island, &c : the sea-coast of Sweden, East-Findland, Lyfland, Prussia, Pomeraina, &c, with all the islands belonging to the said countries in the Baltic-Sea. London: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and Son. M,DCC,LVI. (1756).
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Pub Note:
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The second part of the English Pilot atlas, for the northern navigation. This edition published by John Mount and Thomas Page in London, 1756. Bound in brown leather covers. The "English Pilot" was a sea-chart atlas published in several editions from 1671 to 1803. This edition consists of 78 pages of descriptive text, extensive sailing directions and coastal profiles, with 31 unnumbered double page and folding detailed navigation charts. Some charts engraved by Francis Lamb and Herman Moll. Showing grid lines, sandbanks, anchorages, bays, harbors, roads, buoys, settlements along the coasts, beacons and place names. Charts are embellished with compass roses, rhumb lines, title cartouche and coats of arms. Covering the Northern Europe, British Isles north to Scandinavia, the Arctic Ocean and Baltic Sea. Depth shown by soundings. Prime meridian is London.
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Pub List No:
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13301.000
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Pub Type:
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Chart Atlas
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Pub Maps:
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31
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Pub Height cm:
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48
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Pub Width cm:
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32
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Image No:
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13301054.jp2
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Authors:
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Mount, John ; Page, Thomas, 1704-1762
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