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 ... : To which are added, some general instructions and information ... relative to maritime laws and mercantile customs.
- 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. ... : The whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all the rules of navigation are introduced ... : To which are added, some general instructions and information ... relative to maritime laws and mercantile customs. / From the best authorities. ; enriched with a number of new tables, with original improvements and additions, and a large variety of new and important matter: also many thousand errors are corrected, which have appeared in the best systems of navigation yet published. ; By Nathaniel Bowditch, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. ; Illustrated with copperplates.
- Published by
- [Newburyport, Mass.] : Printed ... by Edmund M. Blunt (Proprietor) for Cushing & Appleton, Salem : Sold by every book-seller, ship-chandler, and mathematical-instrument-maker in the United States and West-Indies, 1802.
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- Description
- xvi, 17-246, [247]-[532], 533-589, [7] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (incl. 1 fold. map); 23 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 4002.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
- Alternative title
- American practical navigator
- Practical navigator
- Subject
- Call number
- Map Div. 97-6461
- 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. ... : The whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all the rules of navigation are introduced ... : To which are added, some general instructions and information ... relative to maritime laws and mercantile customs. / From the best authorities. ; enriched with a number of new tables, with original improvements and additions, and a large variety of new and important matter: also many thousand errors are corrected, which have appeared in the best systems of navigation yet published. ; By Nathaniel Bowditch, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. ; Illustrated with copperplates.
- Imprint
- [Newburyport, Mass.] : Printed ... by Edmund M. Blunt (Proprietor) for Cushing & Appleton, Salem : Sold by every book-seller, ship-chandler, and mathematical-instrument-maker in the United States and West-Indies, 1802.
- Edition
- First edition.
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- Research call number
- Map Div. 97-6461 [LHS 4002, atlas cases]