The American Coast Pilot; Containing Directions for the Principal Harbors, Capes, and Headlands, on the Coast of North and Part of South America.....1867
New York: George W. Blunt, 1867. 8vo. Very Good+. Item #17854
A beautiful 1867 (21st) edition of one of the most influential navigation guides ever published, in a later fine binding of full chocolate-brown leather with titling and ruling stamped in gilt to spine.
840pp. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Three fold-out maps. A few inconsequential small stains on the interior. 2nd issue of the 1867 edition.
Edmund March Blunt (1770 – 1862) was an American navigator, writer, and publisher of nautical magazines. He established a nautical book and chart publishing firm that became the largest publishing firm in the early 19th century. In 1796, he published the American Coastal Pilot, which described every port of the United States.
By 1815, Blunt had moved to New York where he opened a place of business at 202 Water Street, Beekman Slip, New York, "where charts and pilots for every part of the world, nautical books of every description, sextants, circles, quadrants, spy glasses, compasses and every nautical and mathematical instruments requisite at sea may be had on the most reasonable terms."
In 1824, his two sons, George and Edmund went into business with their father at the publishing house of marine works called E. & G. W. Blunt Publishing. Blunt published Blunt's Coastal Pilot, which became American Coast Pilot.
A lovely edition in finer condition than most.
Price: $225.00