An edition of American practical navigator (1802)

The new American practical navigator

being 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

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An edition of American practical navigator (1802)

The new American practical navigator

being 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

Ninth new stereotype edition.

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Published by E. & G.W. Blunt, proprietors, Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry
Language
English
Pages
439

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Navigation, Nautical astronomy, Tables, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Handbooks, manuals, Navigation, 1837, Boats and boating, Reference books
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Cover of: American practical navigator
American practical navigator: an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy.
1914, Govt. Print. Off.
Cover of: American practical navigator
American practical navigator: an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy.
1914, Govt. Print. Off.
Cover of: American practical navigator
American practical navigator: an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy
1912, Govt. print. off.
Cover of: American practical navigator
American practical navigator: an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy.
1910, Govt. Print. Off.
Cover of: The American practical navigator
The American practical navigator: being an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy.
1903, Govt. Print. Off.
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The American practical navigator: being an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy
1888, Govt. Print. Off.
in English - Rev. / by P. H. Cooper.
Cover of: The new American practical navigator
The new American practical navigator: being 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 ... The whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all the rules of navigation are introduced ... With an appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars ...
1861, E. & G. W. Blunt
in English - 30th new stereotype ed.
Cover of: The new American practical navigator
The new American practical navigator: being 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
1837, Published by E. & G.W. Blunt, proprietors, Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry
in English - Ninth new stereotype edition.
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The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation; Containing All the Tables ...
1826, E.M. Blunt
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The new American practical navigator: being an epitome of navigation, containing all the tables necessary ...
1802, 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
in English - First edition.
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The plates are engraved by William Hooker.

SCDIRB 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.

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries, Adopt-a-Book Program, Adopted by Mary and Harold Graul.

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Other Titles
Bowditch's Navigator

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Library of Congress
VK555 .B78 1837

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Pagination
xv, [1], 317, [1] p., [1] leaf, 439, [1] p., XIII leaves of plates (1 folded)
Number of pages
439

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27293572M
Internet Archive
newamericanprac00bowd
OCLC/WorldCat
9778467

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