The coaster's companion [electronic resource] : Containing sailing directions for the East Coast of...
The coaster's companion [electronic resource] : Containing sailing directions for the East Coast of England, from London to the Shetland Isles. Also of the coasts of Flanders, Holland, Jutland, Cattegat, sound, baltic and Gulf of Finland, to St. Petersburgh; of the Coasts of Norway, Lapland and the White Sea, to Archangel and Onega; with directions for going into the several roads, harbours, &c. describing the caps, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water and anchorages. Also the magnetic courses, and the distances, from place to place, round England, Scotland, Ireland, the Orkney, Shetland, and Lewis Isles, along the coasts of Flanders, Holland, Jutland, Baltic, Norway, Lapland, White sea, France, Portugal, and Spain. With the courses and distances from several places in Great Britain, to several places in Flanders, Holland, Jutland, Norway, France and Ireland. To which is added, a large tide-table, with a new and correct method of finding the times of high water at all the principal places in Europe. By John Hamilton Moore, (Chart-seller to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, and Her Serene Highness, the empress of all the Russians.) Assisted by several able pilots and coasters.
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[London] : Published by John Hamilton Moore, Tower-hill, London; and sold by Miller, Gravesend; Burgess, Ramsgate; Marshall and Wittingham, Lynn; Brown, Hull; Reed, Sunderland; Kelly, Roddam, and Saunders, North Shields; smart, South Shields, Robertson and Berry, Edinburgh; Coke, Leith; Millar, Dunbar; Watson and Youle, Greenock; M'Arthur, Glasgow; Diston and Son, Elsineur; Smith, Liverpool; Corkhill, Whiteheaven; Parsons and Hodges, Rowland and Brown, Bristol; King, Dartmouth; Elliott, Falmouth; Haydon and Son, Plymouth; Wilmot, Pembroke; Mottley and Harding, Portsmouth; Watts, Gosport; Moore and Ledgard, Poole; M'Auley and Hughes, Dublin; Owen, Waterford; Fitton, Cork; John and James Thoreau, Jersey; and Chevalier, Guernley, 1792.
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1792.
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iv,150,[6]p. ; 8°.
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[London] : Published by John Hamilton Moore, Tower-hill, London; and sold by Miller, Gravesend; Burgess, Ramsgate; Marshall and Wittingham, Lynn; Brown, Hull; Reed, Sunderland; Kelly, Roddam, and Saunders, North Shields; smart, South Shields, Robertson and Berry, Edinburgh; Coke, Leith; Millar, Dunbar; Watson and Youle, Greenock; M'Arthur, Glasgow;...
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The fourth edition.
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England
Date Published
1792.
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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.
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The coaster's companion [electronic resource] : Containing sailing directions for the East Coast of England, from London to the Shetland Isles. Also of the coasts of Flanders, Holland, Jutland, Cattegat, sound, baltic and Gulf of Finland, to St. Petersburgh; of the Coasts of Norway, Lapland and the White Sea, to Archangel and Onega; with directions...
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Reproduction of original from British Library.
The first unpaginated leaf contains 'In the Sunday gazette of the 8th of March, 1789, the following account appeared', which gives an account of a court case in which Moore was accused of plagiarising a chart; the court found in favour of Moore.
With two final advertisement leaves.
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ESTC T226748.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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74VKDbm4w6gg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKDbm4w6gg
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991019093419702626