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Published / Created:: 1698.
Call Number:: 1973 Folio 76
Image Count:: 21
Description:: BEIN 1973 Folio 76: Imperfect: t.p. mutilated, with some loss of text; p. 3-6 wanting; some p. mutilated and repaired, with some loss of text. Ms. inscription at front: Luke James.
Publisher:: Printed for John Thornton, at the sign of the England, Scotland, and Ireland, in the Minories, and Richard Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill
Subject (Geographic):: Caribbean Area and Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):: Navigation and Pilot guides
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The English pilot. describing the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, islands, depths, rocks, shoals, sands, banks, and dangers from Hudsons-Bay to the river Amazones, with all the West-India navigation, and all the islands therein as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbes, and Bahama Islands : with a new description of New-found-land, New-England, New-York, Dellewar-Bay, Virginia, Mary-land and Carrolina, &c. : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another ... : by the information of divers navigators of our own and other nations. The fourth book

Creator:: Waymouth, George
Published / Created:: 1603-1604.
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 565
Container / Volume:: Box
Image Count:: 1173
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper of George Waymouth (fl. 1587-1611), The jewell of artes, an unfinished technical handbook of navigation, inventions, fortifications, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting of short textual parts and extremely numerous full-page tech...
Description:: About the author, a somewhat mysterious navigator, scholar and engineer, see Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, v. 51 (2004), pp. 777-778. He returned in 1602 from his unsuccesful expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, presented the King...
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Waymouth, George.
Subject (Topic):: English literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Military art and science, and Navigation
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The jewell of artes