America.- Bowditch (Nathaniel) The New American Practical Navigator, first edition, tables and diagrams, engraved folding "Chart of the Atlantic Ocean" and 7 plates (one partially hand-coloured), folding chart and one plate repaired, offsetting and browning, contemporary sheep, sympathetically rebacked, light wear to extremities, [Tomash & Williams B216], 8vo, Newburyport, Mass., Edmund M. Blunt for Thomas & Andrews, 1802. ⁂ First edition of this important American contribution to navigation, such is the import of this work that every U.S. Naval vessel is still required to carry a copy (with modern revisions). Variant issue, with the imprint "Newburyport (Mass), Edmund M. Blunt for Brown & Stansbury" and differing advertisements at end. No priority among the seven known variants of this first edition has been established.
America.- Bowditch (Nathaniel) The New American Practical Navigator, first edition, tables and diagrams, engraved folding "Chart of the Atlantic Ocean" and 7 plates (one partially hand-coloured), folding chart and one plate repaired, offsetting and browning, contemporary sheep, sympathetically rebacked, light wear to extremities, [Tomash & Williams B216], 8vo, Newburyport, Mass., Edmund M. Blunt for Thomas & Andrews, 1802. ⁂ First edition of this important American contribution to navigation, such is the import of this work that every U.S. Naval vessel is still required to carry a copy (with modern revisions). Variant issue, with the imprint "Newburyport (Mass), Edmund M. Blunt for Brown & Stansbury" and differing advertisements at end. No priority among the seven known variants of this first edition has been established.
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