[PILOT GUIDE].
South Indian Ocean pilot. Comprising Madagascar, Iles Comores, Ile de la Réunion, Mauritius, the Seychelles, the Chagos Archipelago, and other islands lying westward of longitude 80° East. Sixth edition.
London, hydrographic department, admiralty (colophon: printed by Butler & Tanner), 1946. 8vo. With two maps, to be used as an index, 10 plates and a few illustrations in text. Publisher's beige cloth.
With: Supplement no. 5-1956 relating to the South Indian Ocean pilot sixth edition, 1946 corrected to 23 April, 1956.
London, hydrographic department, admiralty (colophon: printed by Tinlling & Co., Liverpool), 1946. 8vo. With a loosely inserted folding plate illustrating the system of buoyage. Publisher's wrappers. XXX, 403, [1]; 46 pp.
€ 750
The standard pilot guide for the South Indian Ocean published by the British admiralty, with a foreword by A.G.N. Wyatt, rear-admiral and hydrographer of the navy. The first chapter includes general information such as details on the islands' government, dependencies, flora, fauna, populations, trade, products, communication services, shipping, currency, weights and measures, time, health, etc. The other chapters give detailed navigational details (directions, latitudes and longitudes, shoals, tides, winds, light beacons, anchorage, dangers, etc.) for "Madagascar, Iles Comores, Ile de la Réunion, Mauritius, the Seychelles, the Chagos Archipelago, and other islands lying westward of longitude 80° East".
With deaccession stamps. A good copy.
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