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...
New York: Edmund M. Blunt, 1812. 7th Edition. 8vo. fair. Item #18112
A rare early-19th century printing of THE seminal early American coastal navigation guide. This is the 7th Edition, the last to carry only Furlong's name, and also the first published in New York, and also the first to be published after the Great Newburyport Fire of 1811, which destroyed many of the earlier Newburyport editions.
Fifteen black and white engraved map plates.
Original calf, with gilt ruling to spine. xiv, [ii], 17-178, 181-311, 63, [8]. Square binding. Clean interior, save for contemporary signatures and a stamp to front endpapers. Leather rubbed and worn, particularly on spine, where title label has also been rubbed off. Hinges tender but attached. Foxing throughout. Lacking the woodcut of Blunt's store at pages 179-180, as well as the eight-page advertising supplement, which according to Campbell are "lacking in almost all copies."
Overall, a working copy of the first New York edition of Blunt's defining work.
Price: $400.00