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1. A description of the windward passage, and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to, and from the island of Jamaica : also an account of the trade-winds, and of the variable winds and currents on the coasts thereabouts, at different seasons of the tear : illustrated with a chart of the coast of Florida, and of the islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller islands, shoals, rocks, and other remarkable things in the course of the navigation in the West-Indies : whereby is demonstrated, the precariousness of those voyages to the West-India merchants, and the impossibility of their homeward-bound ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's : the whole very necessary for the information of such as never were in those parts of the world : to which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies ...

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Creator:: Cowley, J. (John)
Physical Description:: 23, [5] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The Atlantic pilot.

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Creator:: De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717–ca. 1799
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: viii, 25, [1] p., [4] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Trigonometrie, or, The doctrine of triangles : divided into two bookes : the first shewing the mensuration of right lined triangles : the second of sphericall, with grounds and demonstrations thereof : both performed by that late and excellent invention of logarithmes, after a more easie and compendious manner, than hath beene formerly taught : whereunto is annexed (chiefly for the use of seamen), a treatise of the application thereof in the three principall kindes of sailing, with certaine necessary tables used in navigation / by Richard Norvvood ...

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Creator:: Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675
Date:: 1631
Physical Description:: 8, 129, [180] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The rutters of the sea: the sailing directions of Pierre Garcie; a study of the first English and French printed sailing directions, with facsimile reproductions, by D.W. Waters.

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Creator:: Garcie, Pierre, called Ferrande, ca. 1435–ca. 1520
Date:: 1967
Physical Description:: xv, 478 p. illus. 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library