Description
The COMPLETE EAST-INDIA PILOT, OF ORIENTAL NAVIGATOR composed from actual surveys and draughts communicated by experienced officers of the honorable East-India company, and from the French Neptune Oriental, by M. d'après de Manevillette. Volume II. London, Laurie and Whittle, 1800, broadside, half-binding damaged. Monumental publication normally composed of 2 volumes of 122 maps describing the charts needed by navigators who wanted to travel to the commercial ports of the East Indies and China. The maps are with one or two subjects, sometimes single and sometimes double. Volume II contains maps 60 to 122 which are devoted to the coasts of Ceylon, India, Bengal, Malacca, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Bali, the Philippine Islands, Borneo, the China Sea, Manila, New Guinea Binding very damaged with several maps unbound, heavy browning in the lower left quarter of the volume affecting the single boards in the lower left corners and the double boards in the lower central parts. These areas are occasionally burnt with missing paper.
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The COMPLETE EAST-INDIA PILOT, OF ORIENTAL NAVIGATOR composed from actual surveys and draughts communicated by experienced officers of the honorable East-India company, and from the French Neptune Oriental, by M. d'après de Manevillette. Volume II. London, Laurie and Whittle, 1800, broadside, half-binding damaged. Monumental publication normally composed of 2 volumes of 122 maps describing the charts needed by navigators who wanted to travel to the commercial ports of the East Indies and China. The maps are with one or two subjects, sometimes single and sometimes double. Volume II contains maps 60 to 122 which are devoted to the coasts of Ceylon, India, Bengal, Malacca, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Bali, the Philippine Islands, Borneo, the China Sea, Manila, New Guinea Binding very damaged with several maps unbound, heavy browning in the lower left quarter of the volume affecting the single boards in the lower left corners and the double boards in the lower central parts. These areas are occasionally burnt with missing paper.
