The coasting pilot: . describing the sea-coasts, channels, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks, & dangers: the bayes, roads, harbours, rivers, ports, buoyes, beacons, and sea-marks, upon the coasts of England Flanders and Holland with directions to bring a shipp into any harbour on the said coasts. Being furnished with new draughts, charts, and descriptions, gathered from ye experience and practise of diverse able and expert navigators of our English nation. Collected and published by John Seller. [...].
John Seller (fl.1658-1698)
Category
Books
Date
1671
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3048097
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],54p., [12] plates (folding) . ill.. . fol... Entered in 1768 catalogue: F.4. The plates and engraved title page in the Dunham copy are hand-coloured.. Provenance: Bookplate on front pastedown: Armorial, Grey and Booth quarterings impaling Cavendish-Bentinck: George Harry Grey, 5th earl of Stamford & 1st earl of Warrington (2nd cr.) (1737-1819), pasted over an earlier, less well-executed plate of the 5th earl, with the single-tailed lion.. Binding: Sprinkled calf; spine gilt; spine vertically lettered directly onto leather: 'Coasting pilot'.
Makers and roles
John Seller (fl.1658-1698)