• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: 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 lay one from another: never heretofore so clearly laid open, and here and there very diligently bettered and augemented, for the use of all sea-men. As also the situation of the northernly countries, as Island, the Strate Davids, the Isle of Ian-Mayen, Bear-Island, Old-Greenland, Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla: adorned with many sea-cards and 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 declination, also an almanack extending nutill [sic] the yeare 1669
  • Contributor: Colom, Jacob Aertsz [Author]
  • imprint: Amsterdam: By Peter Goos, dwelling on the water, hard by the New Bridge at the Signe of the Golden Sea-mirrour, 1662
    Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource ([40], 115, [1], 108 p., [113] leaves of plates); ill., maps, charts
  • Language: English; Dutch
  • Keywords: Almanacs Early works to 1800 ; Navigation Early works to 1800 ; Nautical charts Early works to 1800 ; Astronomical instruments Early works to 1800 ; Trade routes Early works to 1800
  • Place of reproduction: Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Digital version of: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2991:1)
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: "Second part of the New shining sea columne or Sea Mirrour. The first booke of the Westerne navigation" has caption title; separate pagination and register
    Wing (2nd ed.), C5403
    Imperfect: tight binding with slight loss of text
    Reproduction of original in: Queen's College (University of Oxford). Library
    Text in English; maps in Dutch