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; 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 large improvements from the Great neptune françois, 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 françois; the charts of Bellins, Michelot, and Bremond; and all the particular surveys of the several parts of the coast of France. Engraved by Thomas Jefferys ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Du Bocage, Georges Boissaye, 1626-1696.

Contributor:

Jefferys, Thomas, -1771, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pilot guides--France.

Pilot guides.

Coasts--France.

Coasts.

France.

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, iv pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 96, 8, that is, 6 pages, 33 folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm (4to)

Other Title:

French coasting pilot.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for T. Jefferys, 1761.

Notes:

"The French book, called the Petit flambeau, from which this work is principally taken, was originally compiled under the direction of the celebrated M. Colbert ... M. Colbert afterwards referred the work to M. du Bocage ... The editor of this edition ... has added all the charts, both general and particular, not included in the Flambeau, that could be collected either in manuscript, or from authentic maps and charts already published."--Advertisement, p. [iii]

OCLC:

62360539