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Fri, Apr 3, 2020 10:00AM EDT
Lot 1135

English Pilot 1752 John Seller Coastal Charts

Estimate: $400 - $800

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Seller, Attributed to John, The English Pilot, Describing The Sea-Coasts, Capes, Head-Lands, Soundings, Sands, Shoals, Rocks and Dangers, the Bays, Roads, Harbours, Rivers and Ports in the Whole Northern Navigation…with all the Islands belonging to the said countries in the Baltick-Sea, 1752, First edition, W. and J. Mount and T. Page, London, rebound in recent cloth-backed marbled boards, 76 pp., this copy lacking the last two pages of text, all of the fold-out maps and original endpapers. Title page and pages 1-76 collated complete, illustrated with royal woodcut vignette on title page and numerous "charts" showing illustrations of the sea coasts from England to Finland. A rare book, sadly lacking the maps.
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