The lightning columne or sea mirrour : contaigning the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation: setting fort in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads, depths and sands; very curiously placed on its due Polus-height furnished. With the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another. Never there to fore so clearly laid open, & here & there very diligently bettered & augmented for the use of all sea-men. As alsoo the situation of the northernly countries, as islands, the strate Davids, the isle of Jan-Mayen, Bears Island, Old Greenland, Spitsbergen, & Nova Zembla: adorneth with many sea-cards & discoveries. 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 declinaison, with an new almanach.

  • Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673
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Anno 1680
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At Amsterdam : Printed by Casparus Loots-man, bookseller upon the weater, in the Loots-man, Anno 1680.

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42 unnumbered pages, 96, 108 pages, plates

Notes

By Jacob Aertsz Colom. -- Wing (CD-ROM edition).
"The first part of the new lightning sea columne" and "The second part of the new shining sea columne" each have separate pagination and register.
Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books 1641-1700 reel 2310 lacks pages 103-104.
Reproduction of original in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

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Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C5403hA

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2310:17) s1999 miun s

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