The lighting colomne or sea-mirrour, : containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation; setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads. Depths and sands; very curiously placed on its due polus-heighth [sic] furnished with the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they ley one from another: ... whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together with new tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending untill the yeare 1675..
Goos, Pieter,approximately 1616-1675.
Crosbie, Andrew,active 1740,former owner.NLS
Crosbie, John,active 1705,former owner.NLS
Amsterdam, : By Peter Goos. dwelling on the Texels Key, hard by the Sparrendamnar Bridge, at the signe of the golden sea-mirrour.,
1668..
EEBO citation id: 51617703
Relief shown pictorially ; bathymetry shown by soundings.
Goos used the copperplates from Jacobsz "Lichtende columne" to print the charts for this and his own Dutch language edition.
The verso of B3 has a moveable paper nightdial pasted on to the page; the verso of C4 has a moveable roundell showing the horizon and the north and south poles. The volume is interleaved with maps which correspond to the adjacent text, many of the maps are enumerated, E4 verso contains a contents list of the maps and their position in parts 1 and 2 of the volume, the index to the charts in part 3 is on the final page above the printers colophon.
An additional map of parts of the Dutch coast is bound before page 61 of part 2.
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
ESTC
Koeman
Provenance: Inscription on first rear endpaper: Andrew Crosbie his book Dumfries [Septem]ber 14 1740. Inscription on final endpaper: The Sea Mirrour belonging to the KirkConnall of Drumfrice : Mr: John Crosbie merchant in Drumfrice owner of ye same ship build in ye year 1705 and way lanched ye 13th of agust.
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