Bound in brown leather, with gilded spine title. This, fifth, edition focus on the coasts of Africa and the vicinity, from the English Channel to the Strait of Gibraltar and further to the Cape of Good Hope. The English pilot was a sea-chart atlas published in several editions from 1671 to 1803.
The English pilot : Part V, published by John Mount and Thomas Page in London, 1766. Done according to the best observations and informations, with the late improvements of several able navigators of our own and other nations. Shewing the courses and distances from one place to another : the setting of the tides and currents the ebbing and flowing of the sea, with many other things useful in the art of navigation. The coasts of Barbary, Gualta, Arguin, Hoden, Falofi, Gambia, Melli, Benni, Malegete, Grain, Ivory, or Tooth, Band, Quaqua and Gold Coast, Bight of Bennin, Biafra, Gabon, Loango, Congo, Angola, Cimbebas and CAffrary : with the adjacent islands of the Canary, Madera, and those off the Cape Verde. together with the soundings, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers on the west-coast of Africa : from the straits of Gibralter to the Cape of Good Hope, Viz. Describing the sea-coast, capes, head-lands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers and ports with the exact appearances and representations of the most principal marks, lands, &c. The Coasts of Barbary, Gualta, Arguin, Hoden, Falofi, Gambia, Melli, Benni, Malegete, Grain, Ivory, or Tooth, Band, Quaqua and Gold Coast, Bight of Bennin, Biafra, Gabon, Loango, Congo, Angola, Cimbebas and Caffrary : with the adjacent Islands of the Canary, Madera, and those off the Cape Verde.
(Title Page to) The English pilot : Part V.
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