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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 ... 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 ...

Title
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 ... 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 ... / By Nathaniel Bowditch ... and, since his decease, continued by his son, J. Ingersoll Bowditch.
Author
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.
Publication
New-York : Published by E. & G. W. Blunt, proprietors ... Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry, 1845.

Details

Additional Authors
  • Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll, 1806-1889.
  • Hooker, William, 1782-1856.
Description
xv. [1], 318 p., [1] leaf, 451, [3] p., 13 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., maps, diagrs.; 23 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • On verso of title page: Printed by J.M. Elliott, 33 Liberty Street, N.Y.
  • The plates are engraved by William Hooker
  • Last two pages contain publishers' advertisements.
  • On cover: Fourteenth ed.
  • Plates VII-X, XII-XIII incorrectly numbered.
Call Number
VXF (Bowditch, N. New American practical navigator. 1845)
OCLC
9778506
Author
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.
Title
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 ... 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 ... / By Nathaniel Bowditch ... and, since his decease, continued by his son, J. Ingersoll Bowditch.
Imprint
New-York : Published by E. & G. W. Blunt, proprietors ... Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry, 1845.
Edition
Fifteenth new stereotype edition.
Local Note
Proudfit Collection.
Added Author
Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll, 1806-1889.
Hooker, William, 1782-1856.
Research Call Number
VXF (Bowditch, N. New American practical navigator. 1845)
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