Lot Essay
Despite many inaccuracies, this work is a landmark of British cartography, being the first pilot book in English of the entire British coast.
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COLLINS (GREENVILLE): GREAT BRITAIN'S COASTING PILOT, London, by Freeman Collins and Richard Mount, 1693, 2 parts in one, folio, engraved frontispieces, title printed in red and black, 48 engraved charts by J.Harris, J.Moxon, H.Moll and others, most double-page or folding on thick paper, one map vignette (some browning and dampstaining, occasional soiling, some worming, small hole in margin of b1), contemporary calf (rubbed and scuffed, upper cover scored, joints weak); bookplate and ownership inscription of Robert Bristow. [Lowndes 499; NMM3 335]