Remarks, instructions, and examples relating to the latitude & longitude : also, the variation of the compass, &c. &c. &c. : To which is annexed, a general chart of the globe, where the route made by the author, in different ships under his command, to the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia, Canton in China, the different parts of India, Europe, and the Cape de Verde Islands, are marked, for the purpose of shewing the best tract of sea to meet the most favourable winds, and avoid those perplexing calms which too often attend Asiatic voyages: : together with a short, but general account of variable winds, trade-winds, monsoons, hurricanes, tornadoes, tuffoons, calms, currents, and particular weather met with in those voyages, &c. &c. &c. / By Thomas Truxton.
Author/creator |
Truxtun, Thomas, 1755-1822 |
Other author/creator | Truxtun, Thomas, 1755-1822, cartographer. |
Other author/creator | Fox, Justus, 1736-1805, illustrator. |
Other author/creator | Thackara, James, 1767-1848 engraver. |
Format | Electronic and Book |
Publication Info | Philadelhpia [sic] : Printed by T. Dobson, at the stone-house, South Second-Street, M,DCC,XCIV. [1794] |
Description | 2 unnumbered pages, 5-8, 74, 31 pages, 1 unnumbered page, xxiii, 1 unnumbered page, 2 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 30 cm (folio) |
Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
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Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 27823. ^A478749 |
General note | "A general chart of the globe ... by Cap:n Tho:s Truxton."--first plate. "A 44 gun frigate in the Navy of the U:S: of America masted according to the annexed system ... Drawn by J. Fox, for Capt.n Truxton's system of masting. Thackara, s.c."--second plate. |
References | Evans 27823 |
References | Rink, E. Technical Americana, 3884 |
Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 27823). |
Genre/form | Maps World. |
Genre/form | Press figures (Printing) |
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