| 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 completer reckoning at sea ... the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all the rules of navigation are introduced. Also, the demonstration of the usual rules of trigonometry : problems in mensuration, surveying, and gauging : 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 : and rules for finding the longitude of a place by observations of eclipses or accultations / by Nathaniel Bowditch.
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| Edition | 1st stereotype (4th) ed. |
| Published | New-York : published by E.M. Blunt and Samuel A. Burtus, J. Seymour, printer, Aug. 1817.
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| Description | xiv, [2], 274, 280, [555]-597 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 1/2 cm.
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| General Note | Includes tables.
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| Subjects | Imprints, Early -- American -- To 1820.
Nautical astronomy.
Navigation.
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| LC Card Number | 34-3863 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: VK 555 B785N
mq46473: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 32913] |
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