A description of the Windward Passage and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to and from the island of Jamaica
Subtitle: also an account of the trade-winds and of the variable winds and currents on the coasts thereabouts at different seasons of the year : illustrated with a chart of the coast of Florida and of the islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller islands, shoals, rocks, and other remarkable things in the course of the navigation in the West-Indies, whereby is demonstrated the precariousness of those voyages to the West-India merchants and the impossibility of their homeward-bound ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's, the whole very necessary for the information of such as never were in those parts of the world : to which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies ... : to which is now annexed, a very remarkable letter, containing a succinct account of the galleons, flota, flotilla, and register-ships : as also of the ports of Havana, Porto Bello, Carthagena, Vera Cruz, Buenos-Ayres, and the coasts of the Caracca's : interspers'd with various curious remarks on the commerce of the Spaniards in America
Contributors: J. N.; Applebee, John, printer; Corbett, Charles, 1710-1752, bookseller; Nutt, E. (Elizabeth), active 1720-1738, bookseller; Cook, E., bookseller; Dodd, Anne, bookseller; Force, Peter, 1790-1868, former owner; Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The second edition, with additions.
Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Applebee ... C. Corbett ... E. Nutt and E. Cook ... and A. Dodd
Published: 1739
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Windward Passage; Commerce; Early works to 1800; Description and travel
Notes: The map has title: A chart of the Bahama Islands with a description of the Gulf of Florida and Windward Passage &c. referr'd from the figures here set down, to the general index annexed / by J.C.

Signatures: [A]² B-I².

The letter, signed J.N., is entitled: A letter on the present state of the Spanish West-Indies, to P--- H---, Esq., and is separately paged.

Printer's advertisements: [1] p. at end.

ESTC (RLIN) N8548

Sabin 24857

LC copy has Force collection bookplate.