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 ... the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira ... with an appendix containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars ... /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
E. & G.W. Blunt,
1837.
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| Edition: | Tenth new stereotype ed. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Chapman Texas Collection copy is part of the Floyd & Louise Chapman Texas & Borderlands Collection. Cushing Library Texas copy was presented to Midshipman Charles B. Underhill, Texian Navy, by his brother, George M.H. Underhill, New York, Sept. 8, 1839. Signed by C.B. Underhill, Sloop Orange Branch, Galveston; signed again by Charles B. Underhill on inside cover. Also has the official seal of the Texas Navy drawn on the inside front cover. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 317, 439 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |