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The strange and dangerous voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in his intended discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea wherein the miseries indured both going, wintering, returning; and the rarities observed, both philosophicall and mathematicall, are related in this journall of it, published by His Majesties command : to which are added a plat or card for the sayling in those seas, divers little tables of the author's, of the variation of the compasse, &c. : with an appendix concerning longitude, by Master Henry Gellibrand astronomy reader of Gresham Colledge in London, and an advise concerning the philosophy of these late discoveries by W.W.

Title:The strange and dangerous voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in his intended discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea wherein the miseries indured both going, wintering, returning; and the rarities observed, both philosophicall and mathematicall, are related in this journall of it, published by His Majesties command : to which are added a plat or card for the sayling in those seas, divers little tables of the author's, of the variation of the compasse, &c. : with an appendix concerning longitude, by Master Henry Gellibrand astronomy reader of Gresham Colledge in London, and an advise concerning the philosophy of these late discoveries by W.W.
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Note:Printed by John Legatt, for John Partridge, 1633
  
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Subject:Longitude
Subject:Nord-Ouest, Passage du
Subject:Northwest Passage
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