Le petit Neptune François: or, The French coasting pilot : Being a particular description of the bays, roads, rocks, sands, land-marks, depths of water, bearings, and distances from place to place; and the setting and flowing of the tides, on the coast of France. With tables of the latitude, longitude, and tides. Translated from the Petit flambeau de la mer of Du Bocage. With improvements from the Nepture Franȯis, Bellin, Belidor, &c. In which the courses and distances are ascertained, from the astronomical observations of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Illustrated with seventy views of the different appearances of land; and thirty new charts. Drawn from the large map of France taken by triangles by M. Cassini de Thury; the Neptune Franȯis; the charts of Bellins, Michelot, and Bremond; and all the particular surveys of the several parts of the coast of France. Engraved by the Late Thomas Jefferys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Du Bocage, Georges Boissaye, 1626-1696.

Standardized Title:

Petit flambeau de la mer. English. Adaptations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pilot guides--France--Early works to 1800.

Pilot guides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv,[12],96,6p.,plates )

Edition:

The second edition.

Other Title:

Petit Neptune Franðcois

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Faden and Jefferys, geographer to the King, the corner of St. Martin's Lane. Charing-Cross, 1774.

Notes:

With advertisements.

An adaptation of 'Le petit flambeau de la mer' by Georges Boissaye Du Bocage.

Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N67822.

OCLC:

508320695