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Author Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673
Title The lighting colomne or sea-mirrour, : containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation; setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads. Depths and sands; very curiously placed on its due polus-heighth [sic] furnished with the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they ley one from another: ... whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together with new tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending untill the yeare 1675.
Publication Info Amsterdam : By Peter Goos, dwelling on the Texels Key, hard by the Sparrendamnar Bridge, at the signe of the golden sea-mirrour, 1668.



Descript [46], 116, 108, [10], 120 p. : ill., maps.
Note The verso of B3 has a moveable paper nightdial pasted on to the page; the verso of C4 has a moveable roundell showing the horizon and the north and south poles. The volume is interleaved with maps which correspond to the adjacent text; many of the maps are enumerated. E4 verso contains a contents list of the maps and their position in parts 1 and 2 of the volume; the index to the charts in part 3 is on the final page above the printers colophon.
An additional map of parts of the Dutch coast is bound before page 61 of part 2.
Part 1: Map no. 23 misbound between pages 84 and 85 before map no. 24; map no. 31 misbound before no. 30 between pages 110 and 111. Part 2: map nos. 32 and 33 misbound before first page of part 2; map no. 42 misbound between pages 50 and 51; map no. 50 misbound before page 79; map no. 53 misbound before page 93; map. 54 misnumbered "3" and misbound before page 95; map no. 56 misbound before page 103. Part 3: chart no. 22 has been misbound after no. 23.
Imperfect: tightly bound with some loss of text.
Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland.
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Author Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673
Series Early English books online.
Subject Nautical charts -- Early works to 1800.
Navigation -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Navigation -- Terminology -- Early works to 1800.
Ocean travel -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Cosmography -- Early works to 1800.
Almanacs -- Early works to 1800.
Trade routes -- Early works to 1800.
Pilot guides -- Early works to 1800.
Descript [46], 116, 108, [10], 120 p. : ill., maps.
Note The verso of B3 has a moveable paper nightdial pasted on to the page; the verso of C4 has a moveable roundell showing the horizon and the north and south poles. The volume is interleaved with maps which correspond to the adjacent text; many of the maps are enumerated. E4 verso contains a contents list of the maps and their position in parts 1 and 2 of the volume; the index to the charts in part 3 is on the final page above the printers colophon.
An additional map of parts of the Dutch coast is bound before page 61 of part 2.
Part 1: Map no. 23 misbound between pages 84 and 85 before map no. 24; map no. 31 misbound before no. 30 between pages 110 and 111. Part 2: map nos. 32 and 33 misbound before first page of part 2; map no. 42 misbound between pages 50 and 51; map no. 50 misbound before page 79; map no. 53 misbound before page 93; map. 54 misnumbered "3" and misbound before page 95; map no. 56 misbound before page 103. Part 3: chart no. 22 has been misbound after no. 23.
Imperfect: tightly bound with some loss of text.
Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland.
Author Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673
Series Early English books online.
Subject Nautical charts -- Early works to 1800.
Navigation -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Navigation -- Terminology -- Early works to 1800.
Ocean travel -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Cosmography -- Early works to 1800.
Almanacs -- Early works to 1800.
Trade routes -- Early works to 1800.
Pilot guides -- Early works to 1800.

Subject Nautical charts -- Early works to 1800.
Navigation -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Navigation -- Terminology -- Early works to 1800.
Ocean travel -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Cosmography -- Early works to 1800.
Almanacs -- Early works to 1800.
Trade routes -- Early works to 1800.
Pilot guides -- Early works to 1800.
Descript [46], 116, 108, [10], 120 p. : ill., maps.
Note The verso of B3 has a moveable paper nightdial pasted on to the page; the verso of C4 has a moveable roundell showing the horizon and the north and south poles. The volume is interleaved with maps which correspond to the adjacent text; many of the maps are enumerated. E4 verso contains a contents list of the maps and their position in parts 1 and 2 of the volume; the index to the charts in part 3 is on the final page above the printers colophon.
An additional map of parts of the Dutch coast is bound before page 61 of part 2.
Part 1: Map no. 23 misbound between pages 84 and 85 before map no. 24; map no. 31 misbound before no. 30 between pages 110 and 111. Part 2: map nos. 32 and 33 misbound before first page of part 2; map no. 42 misbound between pages 50 and 51; map no. 50 misbound before page 79; map no. 53 misbound before page 93; map. 54 misnumbered "3" and misbound before page 95; map no. 56 misbound before page 103. Part 3: chart no. 22 has been misbound after no. 23.
Imperfect: tightly bound with some loss of text.
Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland.

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