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Moore, John Hamilton [Author] ; Blunt, Edmund March [Other]; Blunt, Edmund March [Printer]; Moore, John Hamilton [Other]; Bowditch, Nathaniel [Other]; Hill, Samuel [Engraver]; Hill, Samuel [Other]; Biggs, Thomas [Other]

The new practical navigator - [Second edition]

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The new practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation; containing the different methods of working the lunar observations, and all the requisite tables used with the nautical almanac, in determining the latitude and longitude; and keeping a complete reckoning at sea: illustrated by proper rules and examples: the whole exemplified in a journal kept from England to the island of Teneriffe ... The first American, from the thirteenth English edition of John Hamilton Moore. Improved by the introduction of several new tables, and by large additions to the forme tables, and revised and corrected by a skilful mathematician and navigator. Illustrated with copper-plates. To which are added, some general instructions and information to merchants, masters of vessels, and others concerned in navigation, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs
  • Contributor: Moore, John Hamilton [Author]; Blunt, Edmund March [ed.]; Blunt, Edmund March [printer.]; Moore, John Hamilton [Other]; Bowditch, Nathaniel [Other]; Bowditch, Nathaniel [Other]; Hill, Samuel [engraver.]; Biggs, Thomas [bookseller.]
  • imprint: Newburyport [Mass.]: Printed by Edmund M. Blunt (Proprietor) 1800. Sold by every bookseller and ship-chandler in the United States. And by Thomas Biggs, no. 85, South Front Street, Philadelphia, [1800]
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Issue: Second edition
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (xii,[1],14-570,[2]p., [8]leaves of plates); ill., diagrams; 8°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Money Tables ; Nautical astronomy ; Navigation
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Bookseller's advertisement, p. [571-572]
    English Short Title Catalog, W24792
    Error in paging: p. 236 misnumbered 214
    Evans, 37991
    Plate facing p. 283 engraved by Samuel Hill
    Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library
    Rink, E. Technical Americana, 3896
    The additions are largely the work of Nathaniel Bowditch. Cf. the preface, signed: Edmund M. Blunt. Sept. 1, 1800