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 ... With the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another ... As also the situation of the northernly countries, as island, the strate Davids, the isle of Jan-Mayen, Bear-Island, Old-Greenland, Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla ... Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers pilots and lovers of the famous art of navigation. 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 1669.
- Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673
- Date:
- 1667
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About this work
Also known as
First part of the new lightning sea columne
Second part of the new shining sea columne
Publication/Creation
Amsterdam : By Peter Goos, dwelling on the Texels Key, hard by the Sparrendamner Bridge, at the signe of the golden Sea-mirrour, 1667.
Physical description
50 unnumbered pages, 116, 108 pages, 53 pages, 3 unnumbered maps : illustrations
Contributors
References note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C5403aA
Notes
By Jacob Aertsz Colom.
"The first part of the new lightning sea columne" and "The second part of the new shining sea columne" have caption titles with separate pagination and register.
Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2425:2) s1999 miun s