The coasting pilot: Describing the sea-coasts, channels, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks, & dangers: the bayes, roads, harbours, rivers, ports, buoyes, beacons, and sea-marks, upon the coasts of England Flanders and Holland with directions to bring a shipp into any harbour on the said coasts. Being furnished with the new draughts, charts, and descriptions, gathered from ye experience and practise of diverse able and expert navigators of our English nation. / Collected and published by John Seller. Hydrographer in ordinary to the King.

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Title: The coasting pilot: Describing the sea-coasts, channels, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks, & dangers: the bayes, roads, harbours, rivers, ports, buoyes, beacons, and sea-marks, upon the coasts of England Flanders and Holland with directions to bring a shipp into any harbour on the said coasts. Being furnished with the new draughts, charts, and descriptions, gathered from ye experience and practise of diverse able and expert navigators of our English nation. / Collected and published by John Seller. Hydrographer in ordinary to the King.
Author: Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.
Publication: [London] :: And are to be sold at his Shopps at the hermitage in Wapping: And in Exchange-Alley in Corne-Hill. And by W. Fisher at the Posterne on Towerhill: And by Jo. Wingfield in Crutched Fryars right against the Church,; [1671?]
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Subject terms: Nautical charts -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800.; Nautical charts -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Nautical charts -- Flanders -- Early works to 1800.; Nautical charts -- Holland -- Early works to 1800.
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Practical Navigation:

Or an Introduction to the whole Art, the Second Edition: Containing many Useful and Geometrical Definitions and Pro∣blems. The Doctrine of Plain and Spherical Triangles, Plain Mercator & great Circle-Sayling; Sundry useful Problems in A∣stronomy; the use of Instruments; the Azimuth Compass, Ring-Dyal, Variation-Compass, the Fore-staff, Quadrant-Plow, Cross-Bow-Quadrant, Removing-Quadrant, Nocturnal and Moon-Dyal, the Plain Scale, Gunters-Scale, Sinical-Quadrant, Plain-Chart, Merchaters-Chart, both Globes, the Inclinatory Needle, and the Virtues of the Load-stone; Useful Tables of the Moons Age, of the Tydes, of the Suns Place and Declination, of the Stars right Ascention and Declination, the Latitude and Longitude of Places; New Traverse Tables, and their use in keeping a Reckon∣ing at Sea.