The American Coast Pilot; Containing the Courses and Distances Between the Principal Harbours, Capes & Headlands, From Passamaquoddy Through the Gulph of Florida; With Directions for Sailing Into the Same...
Newburyport, MA: Edmund M. Blunt, 1800. 3rd Edition. 8vo. Good. Item #18101
A Rare Early Printing of THE seminal early American coastal navigation guide. This is the 3rd Edition, and the first to be printed in the 19th century.
All of the Newburyport editions are quite scarce, and particularly so in original bindings, as many were lost in the Great Newburyport Fire of 1811.
The first three editions of Blunt were all published without maps, the first with maps being the 1804 4th edition.
Original leather, with gilt ruling to spine and red title label. Square tight binding. xvi, [17]-251pp, [5]. Clean interior. Both boards detached but present. lacking front endpaper and flyleaves, with title page being the first. Chip to the upper fore edge corner of title page. Sporadic foxing throughout.
Overall a handsome and quite rare early Newburyport edition of Blunt's defining work.
Price: $350.00