The little sea torch: or, True guide for coasting pilots: : by which they are clearly instructed how to navigate along the coasts of England, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Sicily; the isles of Malta, Corsica, Sardinia, and others in the straits; and of the coast of Barbary, from Cape Bon to Cape de Verd. Enriched with upwards of one hundred appearances of head-lands and light-houses. Together with plans of the principal harbours. Also a table of soundings, and various explanatory remarks. The whole forming a work of the greatest utility to seamen, and peculiarly calculated to instruct the curious inquirer into those subjects that are connected with maritime geography. / Translated from the French of Le Sieur Bougard, with corrections and additions, by J. T. Serres, ...
R. Bougard
Category
Books
Date
1801
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101500
Summary
Bibliographic description
vi, 144, [6] p., 20, 12 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; fol. Imperfect: wanting list of subscribers (thus collates [2], ii, 144, [6] p., 20, 12 leaves of plates). All plates bound at end, following text. Original printed title label pasted onto front pastedown. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails): ‘Sapphire R.Y.S.’ and ‘Broughton’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Purple ink-stamp on second front free endpaper: ‘S.Y. SAPPHIRE.’. Binding: Nineteenth-century half blue morocco, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt fillets on spine; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The little sea torch' and 'Bougard and Serres'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Roger de Coverly & Sons.'.
Makers and roles
R. Bougard , author John Thomas Serres (London 1759 - London 1825), translator