The English Pilot. The Third Book. Describing the Sea-Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Straits, Soundings

by John Thornton

$200 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Publisher’s blue cloth, upper board and spine gilt-stamped, with dust-jacket, minor staining on back board A fine facsimile of the 1703 John Thornton 'Third Book' of the English Pilot, the standard British sea-atlas for navigation to the Indian Ocean and Far East in the early eighteenth century. Conceived by John Seller in the 1670s as a multi-book pilot, the Third Book treats the route from the Cape of Good Hope across the Indian Ocean to the East Indies and

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