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 ... exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira ... Enriched with a number of new tables, with original improvements and additions, and ... new and important matter

• 1802

• Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838

246 [247-532] 533-589, [15] pages : frontispiece (folded map), 7 plates. ; 23 cm

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All imprints of this edition - and no others - have a cartouche in the upper left corner of the folding map, depicting an eagle holding in its beak a banner upon which the title, "Chart of the Atlantic Ocean", appears. The plates of this edition are unsigned

Another issue of the "First edition" has imprint: Newburyport, Mass., Printed by E. M. Blunt for W. R. Wilder, Newport, 1802

Boxed

• Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages

• Nautical astronomy
• Navigation

• text

• English

Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages, 172

Howes B657

Newburyport (Mass.), Edmund M. Blunt

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