The American Coast Pilot; Containing the Courses and Distances Between the Principal Harbours, Capes & Headlands of the Coast of North and South America...
New York: Edmund M. Blunt, 1827. 11th Edition. 8vo. Good. Item #18116
A nice 1827 printing of THE seminal early American coastal navigation guide. This is the 11th Edition.
Twenty black and white engraved map plates.
Eight-page ad section at the rear.
Original calf, with gilt ruling to spine and black title label. xvi, 676pp, [4]. Leather with rubbing and wear, with the front board held by one binder's cord only. Sporadic foxing throughout. Clean interior, save for previous owner writing to endpapers and pastedowns. Light dampstaining to fire edge of early pages.
Overall, a very nice early New York edition of Blunt's defining work.
Price: $315.00
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