1802 1st American Ed. BOWDITCH Practical NAVIGATOR Rare
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PRESENTING an ULTRA RARE 1st AMERICAN EDITION of this LEGENDARY NAUTICAL WORK by NATHANIEL BOWDITCH... NEW AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR: Being An Epitome Of Navigation; Containing All The Tables Necessary To Be Used With The Nautical Almanac Determining The Latitude, And The Longitude By Lunar Observations, And Keeping A Complete Reckoning At Sea; Illustrated By Proper Rules And Examples: The Whole Exemplified In A Journal, Kept From Boston To Madeira, In Which All The Rules Of Navigation Are Introduced: Also, The Demonstration Or The Most Useful Rules Of Trigonometry: With Many Useful Problems In Mensuration, Surveying, And Gauging: Dictionary Of Sea Terms: And The Manner Of Performing The Most Useful Evolutions At Sea Bowditch, Nathaniel. Newburyport (Mass): Edmund M. Blunt, 1802. 589,[4],pp. plus [3]pp. of ads, plus seven engraved plates including folding frontispiece map (although half of frontis is missing, all opther plates in great shape. Text tanned throughout, scattered foxing. Front board is missing, but spine and rear board are intact; spine shows wear but gilt stamped red leather title label still present. Last EP has a small pencil inscription on it, R. P. Adcock, as well as a few other small pencil inscriptions. The rest of the pages are free of marks, are bound tight, and in very nice shape. The scarce first edition
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