COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Mount and Davidson
Date:
1794
Short Title:
Barbados. Text: The English Pilot, The Fourth Book. A Description of Caribbee Islands.
Publisher:
Mount and Davidson
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
Chart Map
Type:
Text Page
Obj Height cm:
48
Obj Width cm:
30
Reference:
Phillips, Atlases, 1171 (1784 edition); Verner, A Carto-bibliographical Study of The English Pilot The Fourth Book (Charlottsville, 1960) 37; Cf. Verner, [facsimile] The English Pilot The Fourth Book (London: 1689);
Country:
Barbados
Subject:
Nautical Charts
Subject:
Oceans; Seas
Full Title:
Barbados. (Text) The English Pilot, The Fourth Book. A Description of Caribbee Islands.
List No:
12434.034
Page No:
26
Series No:
34
Publication Author:
Mount and Davidson
Pub Date:
1794
Pub Title:
The English Pilot. Describing the West-India Navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly delineating the coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, and anchorage, with all the islands therein ... also a new description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, east and west New Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, &c. shewing the courses and distances from one place to another; the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. with many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. London: Mount and Davidson, M,DCC,XCIV.
Pub Reference:
Phillips, Atlases, 1171 (1784 edition); Verner, A Carto-bibliographical Study of The English Pilot The Fourth Book (Charlottsville, 1960) 37; Cf. Verner, [facsimile] The English Pilot The Fourth Book (London: 1689);
Pub Note:
Rare final edition of the Fourth Book of the English Pilot, which was published in five separate books, and was the first major sea-atlas published in England. Furthermore, the Fourth Book was the first wholly English sea-atlas of American waters. The English Pilot, taken as a whole, had a long and complex publishing history that illustrates the development of the chart trade in England during its formative period. Introduced in 1689, by John Thornton and William Fisher, the Fourth Book was the most successful of the five, and had the longest continuous run of editions.
Pub List No:
12434.000
Pub Type:
Chart Atlas
Pub Maps:
26
Pub Height cm:
49
Pub Width cm:
32
Image No:
12434034.jp2
Authors:
Mount and Davidson
Link To Source
Barbados. Text: The English Pilot, The Fourth Book. A Description of Caribbee Islands.
