ENGLISH PILOT, THE FOURTH BOOK. DESCRIBING THE WEST-INDIA NAVIGATION, FROM HUDSON'S-BAY TO THE RIVER AMAZONES, 1742

Folio (467 x 310mm.), title printed in red and black within double-ruled border, 28 engraved charts, most double-page, 4 printed recto and verso, 4 in the text, woodcut coastal profiles and illustrations in the text, later half buckram, one or two charts trimmed, repaired worming causing loss, more so towards end

ESTC N47590 (listing only 3 copies, all in North America); Sabin 22618 (calling for 16 maps only); Shirley, British Library M.M&P-5a (the 1728 edition with 25 charts, and mentioning this 1742 edition)

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Mount and Page first took over the publication of the English Pilot in 1707, and produced numerous editions thereafter, containing a varying number of maps. New Found Land and Hudson's Bay, double-page
West Indies, double-page
Western Ocean, double-page, cut close
Sea Coast of New Found Land etc, double-page
Casco Bay, double-page
Coast of New-Found-Land, double-page, folding
Newfoundland from Bay of Bulls, double-page
Harbor Grace, recto
Bay Bulls, verso
Cattalina Harbor, recto
Port Bonavista, verso
Island of St Peters, in text
Coast of New England, double-page, folding
Draught of New York, double-page
Virginia, Maryland etc, double-page, folding
Draught of Virginia, double-page, cut close
Barbados, in text
Antegua, in text
Carolina, double-page
Caribe islands, double-page
Hispaniola, double-page, folding
Bay of Matanzas, single-page
Jamaica, double-page
Bahama Islands, double-page
Bermuda, in text
Oronoque / Surinam / Guinea, double-page
Trading part of the West Indies, double-page, folding
Gulf of Darien, double-page