- Additional Authors
- 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)