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American practical navigator : an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy

Title: American practical navigator : an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy / originally by Nathaniel Bowditch.
Author: Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.
Publication: Washington : G.P.O., 1939.

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Description

391, 387 p. : ill., charts; 27 cm.

Series Statement

United States. Hydrographic Office ; [Publication] no. 9

Uniform Title

H.O. pub. ; no. 9.

Alternative Title

Practical navigator.

Subjects

Note

First published in 1802 under title: The new American practical navigator.
"In 1866 the United States Hydrographic Office bought the copyright and since that time has published the book, revising it completely from time to time to keep step with the modern changes in navigation methods"--p. 3.
"Hydrographic Office manuals of navigation and nautical astronomy": p. 6.

Contents

I. Text and appendices -- II. Tables.

Call Number

VXF (Bowditch, N. American practical navigator. 1939)

LCCN

39026698

OCLC

2135940

Author

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.

Title

American practical navigator : an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy / originally by Nathaniel Bowditch.

Imprint

Washington : G.P.O., 1939.

Edition

(Rev. ed. of 1938) Published by the United States Hydrographic Office under the authority of the secretary of the navy.

Series

United States. Hydrographic Office ; [Publication] no. 9

H.O. pub. ; no. 9.

Added Author

United States. Navy.

United States. Naval Oceanographic Office. Publications.

United States. Hydrographic Office.

Added Title

Practical navigator.

Research Call Number

VXF (Bowditch, N. American practical navigator. 1939)