Detail View: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: Text: A Description of the Sea-coast of Irelan
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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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Author:
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Mount and Page
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Date:
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1752
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Short Title:
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Text: A Description of the Sea-coast of Irelan
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Publisher:
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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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47
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Obj Width cm:
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32
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Note:
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Descriptive text of the sea-coast of Ireland.
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Full Title:
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(Text Page to) A Description of the Sea-coast of Ireland. (to accompany) The English pilot for the Southern navigation .... London : Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower Hill. M,DCC,LII (1752).
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List No:
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13251.060
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Page No:
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57
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Series No:
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60
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Publication Author:
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Mount, John
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Publication Author:
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Page, Thomas
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Publication Author:
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Mount and Page
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Pub Date:
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1752
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Pub Title:
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The English pilot for the Southern navigation : describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers and ports : together with the soundings, sands, rocks and dangers on the coast of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, to the Streight's-Mouth, with the coasts of Barbary, and off to the Canary, Madeira, Cape de Verde and Western-Islands : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the setting of the tides and currents, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, &c. London : Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower Hill. M,DCC,LII (1752).
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Pub Note:
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The "English Pilot" was a sea-chart atlas published in several editions from 1671 to 1803. This edition published by John Mount and Thomas Page in London. Ink inscription on title page reads George Atkinson. This is the 1752 edition of the atlas in two parts (I and III) bound in one volume, London: 1752. and 1750 for Part III Part I covers England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain Holland, Portugal, and the entrance to the Mediterranean. It contains descriptive text and 22 double page and folding maps and charts with explicit sailing directions and numerous woodcut coastal profiles and vignettes in the text. Part III covers the whole Mediterranean Sea, in 14 sections, with title page, descriptive text, and set of seventeen maps. Features a large folding map titled "A Correct Chart of the Mediterranean Sea from the Coast of Portugal to the Levant." and 16 other maps which are double-page folio sheets covering parts of the Mediterranean and are all embellished with compass roses, rhumb lines and costal profiles.
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Pub List No:
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13251.000
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Pub Type:
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Chart Atlas
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Pub Maps:
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41
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Pub Height cm:
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47
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Pub Width cm:
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32
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Image No:
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13251060.jp2
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Authors:
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Mount, John; Page, Thomas, 1704-1762; Mount and Page
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