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The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation, containing all the tables necessary ...

by: Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838; Lee, Marvin, former owner. DSI; Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828 DSI; Burndy Library, donor. DSI

Publication date: 1802

Topics: Navigation, Nautical astronomy

Publisher: [Salem] : Printed at Newburyport, Mass., 1802, by Edmund M. Blunt, for Cushing and Appleton, Salem : Sold by every book-seller, ship- chandler, and mathematical-instrument-maker in the United States and West Indies

Collection: smithsonian

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Binder's label: Bowditch Practical Navigator

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

Signatures: pi chi [A]² B-T T X-2H A-B A-K L M-U W X-2R [2S]²

Publisher's advertisements: [7] p. at end

Errata: p. [590]

Includes errata for Hutton's logarithmic tables, 2nd ed., London, 1794 and 3rd ed., London, 1801: p. [591]-[592]

Burndy. Science (rev. ed.)

Exhibit

Book plate: Gift of Marvin Lee

On front paste down: Photograph of Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Nathaniel Bowditch

On verso of 1st folded leaf, ms. notes in ink: William Mansise? Co