BOWDITCH, Nathaniel (1773-1838). The New American Practical Navigator. New York: Edmund M. Blunt for William Hooker, 1821. "Fifth Stereotype edition" of Bowditch's popular navigational text.
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BOWDITCH, Nathaniel (1773-1838). The New American Practical Navigator. New York: Edmund M. Blunt for William Hooker, 1821.
8vo (220 x 126 mm). Folding engraved map frontispiece, 11 engraved plates, numerous illustrations. (Toned, some spotting or soiling.) Contemporary sheep gilt, red leather lettering-piece gilt (slight wear to extremities, some minor staining). Provenance: John B.L. Natson? (signature, 1827).
"Fifth Stereotype edition" of Bowditch's popular navigational text, based on corrections Bowditch made for John Hamilton Moore's The New Practical Navigator for America, first published in 1772.
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