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; very curiously placed on its due polus-heighth [sic] furnished with the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they ley one from another: ... 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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	[Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673]
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : By Peter Goos, dwelling on the Texels Key, hard by the Sparrendamnar Bridge, at the signe of the golden sea-mirrour, 1668.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Nautical charts > Early works to 1800. Navigation > Study and teaching > Great Britain > Early works to 1800. Navigation > Terminology > Early works to 1800. Ocean travel > Early works to 1800. Astronomical instruments > Early works to 1800. Cosmography > Early works to 1800. Almanacs > Early works to 1800. Trade routes > Early works to 1800. Pilot guides > Early works to 1800.
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Description
Item Description:	The verso of B3 has a moveable paper nightdial pasted on to the page; the verso of C4 has a moveable roundell showing the horizon and the north and south poles. The volume is interleaved with maps which correspond to the adjacent text; many of the maps are enumerated. E4 verso contains a contents list of the maps and their position in parts 1 and 2 of the volume; the index to the charts in part 3 is on the final page above the printers colophon. An additional map of parts of the Dutch coast is bound before page 61 of part 2. Part 1: Map numbers 23 misbound between pages 84 and 85 before map numbers 24; map numbers 31 misbound before numbers 30 between pages 110 and 111. Part 2: map nos. 32 and 33 misbound before first page of part 2; map numbers 42 misbound between pages 50 and 51; map numbers 50 misbound before page 79; map numbers 53 misbound before page 93; map. 54 misnumbered "3" and misbound before page 95; map numbers 56 misbound before page 103. Part 3: chart numbers 22 has been misbound after numbers 23. Imperfect: tightly bound with some loss of text. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland.
Physical Description:	1 online resource ([46], 116, 108, [10], 120 pages : illustrations, maps.