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 islands, the strate Davids, the isle of Ian-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. By Jan van Loon. Whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together vvith nevv tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending untill the yeare 1661.

  • Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673
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1654
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First part
Second part

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At Amsterdam : printed by John Johnson bookseller, dwelling upon the Water, in the Passe-card, 1654.

Physical description

52 unnumbered pages, 103 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 108 pages, 57 maps : illustrations

References note

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C5401A

Notes

By Jacob Aertsz Colom.
"The first part" and "The second part" have separate dated title pages with separate pagination and register.
Reproduction of original in the Royal College of Physicians Library, London.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2425:1) s1999 miun s

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