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049 $aSMI+$nljdb 20110906. Recat Dibner copy, retaining call no., former bc 39088003113495
050 4 $aVK555$b.B78 1837
090 $aVK555$b.B78 1837
099 $aVK555.B78 1837
100 1 $aBowditch, Nathaniel,$d1773-1838.
245 14 $aThe new American practical navigator :$bbeing an epitome of navigation; containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical almanac in 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 of the usual rules of trigonometry; problems in mensuration, surveying, and gauging; dictionary of sea terms; and the manner of performing the most useful evolutions at sea : with an appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars; rules for finding the longitude of a place by observations of eclipses, occultations, and transits of the moon's limb over the meridian; also a new method for finding the latitude by two altitudes /$cby Nathaniel Bowditch.
246 1 $iBinder's title:$aBowditch's Navigator$5DSI
250 $aNinth new stereotype edition.
260 $aNew-York :$bPublished by E. & G.W. Blunt, proprietors :$bStereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry,$c1837.
300 $axv, [1], 317, [1] p., [1] leaf, 439, [1] p., XIII leaves of plates (1 folded) :$bill., maps, diagrs. ;$c25 cm.
500 $aThe plates are engraved by William Hooker.
590 $aSCDIRB copy (39088015715303) bound in tree sheepskin, title in gilt within red leather spine label; bookseller's ticket: sold by W. and S.B. Ives, Salem.
590 $aSCDIRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries, Adopt-a-Book Program, Adopted by Mary and Harold Graul.
650 0 $aNavigation.
650 0 $aNautical astronomy.
700 1 $aHooker, William,$eengraver.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aBowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.$tNew American practical navigator.$bNinth new stereotype ed.$dNew-York : Published by E. & G.W. Blunt, proprietors ... Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry, 1837$w(OCoLC)659320956
856 42 $zDigital bookplate, SCDIRB copy 39088015715303:$uhttp://www.sil.si.edu/link?e5IsoM
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