1811 3rd Edition of The New American Practical Navigator: Being An Epitome of Navigation, Containing all the Tables Necessary...
Newburyport, MA: Edmund M. Blumt, 1811. 3rd Edition. Octavo. Fair. Item #18432
1811 3rd Edition of what Howes calls the "First accurate navigator's guide' and an institution in Nautical writing, possibly the most important navigator in American history."
This is the 3rd Edition, 2nd issue, being the first Edition after printing was moved to New York City.
"Often termed the greatest book in all the history of navigation, this intellectual achievement of our early culture was indispensable to the maritime and commercial expansion of the nineteenth century" (Grolier).
Widely regarded as the most influential work in the history of navigation. Bowditch published his first revision of the navigator by J.H. Moore in 1799. Discovering more than 8000 errors, in the work of Moore, Bowditch decided to publish his own work, "The New American Practical Navigator", in 1802 and it quickly became the preeminent and most used work on celestial and maritime navigation. Bowditch's work has been updated and published every year since and is still published today.
653pp + ads.
Original leather binding with significant wear, with the front board delicate and holding by just a single string. Boards and edges with rubbing and wear. Burgundy spine label with titling in gilt.
A few of the flyleaves laid in. Endpapers with early notations in contemporary ink. Mild foxing throughout.
Campbell, 6; Howes, B657.
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