The Coast Cimbebas and Caffrary. The English pilot : Part V. Describing the sea-coast, capes, head-lands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers and ports; with the exact appearances and representations of the most principal marks, lands, &c. together with the soundings, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers on the west-coast of Africa : from the straits of Gibralter to the Cape of Good Hope, Viz. The coasts of Barbary, Gualta, Arguin, Hoden, Falofi, Gambia, Melli, Benni, Malegete, Grain, Ivory, or Tooth, Band, Quaqua and Gold Coast, Bight of Bennin, Biafra, Gabon, Loango, Congo, Angola, Cimbebas and CAffrary : with the adjacent islands of the Canary, Madera, and those off the Cape Verde. Shewing the courses and distances from one place to another : the setting of the tides and currents; the ebbing and flowing of the sea, with many other things useful in the art of navigation. Done according to the best observations and informations, with the late improvements of several able navigators of our ...

Seven profile views showing the coasts of Cimbebas and Kaffraria (current-day southern West Africa and Eastern Cape of South Africa), including a nautical chart. Relief shown pictorially. Black and white woodcut. Together, views are 32 x 25 cm, on sheet 47 x 29 cm. The English pilot : Part V, published by John Mount and Thomas Page in London, 1766. The English pilot was a sea-chart atlas published in several editions from 1671 to 1803. This, fifth, edition focus on the coasts of Africa and the vicinity, from the English Channel to the Strait of Gibraltar and further to the Cape of Good Hope. Bound in brown leather, with gilded spine title. Ink inscription on first (blank) page indicates provenance, listing several names, beginning with Joseph Sowler. Collation: [1], 42 pages, with 19 double leaves of double plates, including several fold-out sheets. Plates comprised of 21 nautical charts (three together on plate following page 16). Charts show surrounding land, port cities, topography, vegetation, coastlines, islands, shoals, anchorage, and soundings. Relief shown pictorially. Charts include rhumb lines, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as bar scales, compass roses and descriptive notes. Extended description appears in chapters I through XVI, illustrated by woodcut profile views of coastal topography. For the other parts of The English Pilot in the collection, see Pub List No 13301.000 (Part II), 13251.000 (Parts I and III, bound together) and 12434.000 (Part IV). Phillips 3230.