Research Catalog

Title

The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation; containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical almanac, ... illustrated by proper rules and examples: the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira, ... With an appendix, ... / By Nathaniel Bowditch, L.L.D. ...

Author

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.

Publication

New-York : published by E. M. Blunt, and Samuel A. Burtus. J. Seymour, printer. Aug., 1817.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ford Collection.

Description

xiv, [2], 274; 280, [1], 556-597, [5] p., 12 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., maps; 23 (8vo)

Subject

• Navigation
• Nautical astronomy

Note

• Signatures: [A]⁴ B-U⁴ W⁴ X-Mm⁴ Nn¹ A-U⁴ W⁴ X-Rr⁴
• Plates engraved by William Hooker. With five final advertisement pages.

Indexed In (note)

• Shaw & Shoemaker

Call Number

VXF (Bowditch, N. New American practical navigator. 1817)

OCLC

• 29145557
• 30553648

Author

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.

Title

The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation; containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical almanac, ... illustrated by proper rules and examples: the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira, ... With an appendix, ... / By Nathaniel Bowditch, L.L.D. ...

Imprint

New-York : published by E. M. Blunt, and Samuel A. Burtus. J. Seymour, printer. Aug., 1817.

Edition

First stereotype (fourth) edition.

Indexed In:

Shaw & Shoemaker, 40296.

Added Author

Ford Collection.

Research Call Number

VXF (Bowditch, N. New American practical navigator. 1817)