Strange and dangerous voyage of Captaine Thomas Iames in his intended discouery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea :
vvherein the miseries indured both going, wintering, returning, and the rarities obserued, both philosophicall and mathematicall, are related in this iournall of it, published by His Majesties command : to which are added, a plat or card for the sayling in those seas, diuers little tables of the autho'rs, of the variation of the compassse &c. : vvith an appendix concerning longitude by Master Henry Gellibrand ... and an aduise concerning the philosophy of these late discoueryes by W.W.

Description

Main Author

James, Thomas, 1593?-1635?

Related Names

Partridge, John, -1649, bookseller.
Legat, John, -1620, printer.
W. W. (William Watts), active 1633.
Gellibrand, Henry, 1597-1636.
English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed by Iohn Legatt for Iohn Partridge, 1633.

Subjects

James, Thomas, > James, Thomas, / 1593?-1635?.
James, Thomas, > James, Thomas, / 1593?-1635? > James, Thomas, / 1593?-1635? / Northwest Passage.
Travel.
Longitude.
Discoveries in geography
Longitude > Longitude / Early works to 1800.
Arctic Ocean > Arctic Ocean / Northwest Passage.
Northwest Passage > Northwest Passage / Early works to 1800.
Northwest Passage > Northwest Passage / Early works to 1800.
Early works.

Note

LC copy imperfect: first leaf, Q4, and map wanting; pages trimmed with some loss of text.
Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-S⁴.
"Aduise concerning the philosophy of these late discoueryes" signed: X.Z.

Physical Description

[8], 120, [24] p., [1] folded leaf of plates (first leaf and Q4 blank) : 1 map ; 17 cm. (4to)

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