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Rare set of sailing directions from England to China

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The Oriental Navigator; or, New Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, &c.&c.&c...

Second Edition--With Considerable Additions.

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HUDDART, Captain Joseph
London,
Robert Laurie and James Whittle, map chart and printsellers, No.53 Fleet Street,
1801
4to. (275 by 210mm) title, engraved frontispiece portrait of Captain Joseph Huddart, xi, [1], 655, [1] pages, small stain in lower outer corner of approximately 20 leaves toward end, contemporary quarter russia over boards, flat spine decorated with maritime motifs separated by roll tool bands, lettered in gilt, top of spine chipped, cover edges rubbed.
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Rare set of sailing directions to accompany Laurie and Whittle's monumental 'The Complete East India Pilot', the most accurate sea atlas of the day, charting the route between England and China.

The author of the work was Captain Joseph Huddart (1741-1816) a British hydrographer who, in 1778, had carried out important surveys of India and Sumatra, and would later make his fortune from improving the design and manufacture of rope.

The title states that ...