The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation : containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical almanac in determining the latitude, and the longitude by lunar observations, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea
by Nathaniel Bowditch
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Edmund M. Blunt, for Thomas and Andrews, Boston, Newburyport, Mass, 1807. 2nd ed., with many improvements. Hardcover. Acceptable. [Important Classic in Navigation: Bowditch created this book after five long sea voyages where he used Hamilton Moore's The New Practical Navigator and found it in error.] Rebound in modern cloth. 312, [276], 613-679, [1] pages. 9 illustrated plates (of 11), including folding map. Over 100 text illustrations. Minor staining to some plates, foxing. 1 1/2-inch closed tear to map. Tear to title page. Scattered early pencil notes. "Often termed the greatest book in all the history of navigation ... an intellectual achievement of our early culture ... indispensable to the maritime and commercial expansion of the nineteenth century" - Grolier Hundred 25. Campbell, Practical Navigator 5; Howes B657.
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- Title
- The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation : containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical almanac in determining the latitude, and the longitude by lunar observations, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea
- Author
- Nathaniel Bowditch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
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- Edition
- 2nd ed., with many improvements
- Publisher
- Edmund M. Blunt, for Thomas and Andrews, Boston, Newburyport, Mass
- Date Published
- 1807
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- 0.00 lbs
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