| Author | Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.
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| Title | The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation; containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical almanac, in determining the latitude, and the longitude by lunar observations, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea; illustrated by proper rules and examples ... dictionary of sea terms; and the manner of performing the most useful evolutions at sea: : with an appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars ... / By Nathaniel Bowditch ... and, since his decease, continued by his son, J. Ingersoll Bowditch.
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| Edition | Fourteenth new stereotype edition. |
| Published | New-York : Published by E. & G. W. Blunt, proprietors ... Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry, 1844.
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| Description | xv, [1], 317, [1] p., [1] leaf, 449, 3 p., 13 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., maps, diagrs. ; 23 cm.
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| General Note | On verso of title page: Printed by J.M. Elliott, 33 Liberty Street, N.Y.
The plates are engraved by William Hooker.
Three pages at end contain a publishers' advertisement.
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| Subjects | Nautical astronomy.
Navigation.
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| Other Authors | Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll, 1806-1889.
Hooker, William.
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| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: VK 555 B785 N6
mq46474: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 32914] |
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