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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, 1847.

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xv, [1], 3l8 p., [1] leaf, 451, [3] p., 13 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., maps, diagrs.; 23 cm.

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On verso of title page: J.M. Elliott, printer, 102 William Street.
The plates are engraved by William Hooker.
Last two pages contain publishers' advertisements.

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VXF (Bowditch, N. New American practical navigator. 1847)

OCLC

9778515

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.

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New-York : Published by E. & G. W. Blunt, proprietors ... Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry, 1847.

Edition

Seventeenth new stereotype edition.

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Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll, 1806-1889.

Hooker, William, 1782-1856.

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VXF (Bowditch, N. New American practical navigator. 1847)

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