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, 1817. 9th Edition. 8vo. Good. Item #18115
A Rare Early-19th century printing of THE seminal early American coastal navigation guide. This is the 9th Edition.
Sixteen of 17 black and white engraved map plates present. Lacking the Boston map.
Eighteen-page ad section at the rear, including the lovely full-page engraved advertisement for Blunt's store at Fulton and Water Streets, New York
Original calf, with gilt ruling to spine and burgundy title label. xvi, 328, 85, [23]. Square tight binding. No front endpapers. Advertisement for William Hooker and Edmund Blunt pasted down to front pastedown, not original to the original binding and dated July 1818. Leather with rubbing and wear, including a chip to crown of spine (see pics). Shallow crease down spine. Some separation to upper joints. Sporadic foxing throughout. Some pages of ads at rear with wrinkles and tears.
Overall, a very nice early New York edition of Blunt's defining work.
Price: $325.00