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 ley 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 1675.

  • Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673
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1669
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Amsterdam : By Peter Goos, dwelling on the Texels Key, hard by the Sparrendamner Bridge, at the signe of the golden Sea-mirrour, 1669.

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42 unnumbered pages, 116, 108 pages, 59 unnumbered maps : illustrations

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Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C5403dA

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.
Formerly Wing C5403A.
Reproduction of original in the John Carter Brown Library.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2510:4) s1999 miun s

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