Description

PUBLICATION DETAILS: Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1974. Hardcover facsimile reproduction of the 1772 edition of William Gerardde Brahm’s The Atlantic Pilot with introduction and index by Louis De Vorsey, Jr. Brown boards with gilt design. No DJ, as issued. Part of the Bicentennial Floridiana Facsimile Series. Foldout maps present and in excellent condition.

DESCRIPTION: In the Introduction, De Vorsey states: “In The Atlantic Pilot, William Gerard De Brahm provided the scientific and maritime communities of his day with a fund of information concerning southern Florida, as well as the first printed map and empirically supported theoretical explanation of one of the great physical phenomena of our planet – the Gulf Stream”.

CONDITION: Covers and contents clean, bright; like new.