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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 ... /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, John Hamilton, -1807
Other Authors: Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838, Blunt, Edmund M. (Edmund March), 1770-1862 (Editor), Hill, Samuel, approximately 1766-1804 (Engraver)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 37991.
Subjects:
Nautical astronomy.
Navigation.
Money > Tables.
Booksellers' advertisements > Massachusetts > Newburyport.
Maps.
Online Access:Evans Digital Edition
Description
Item Description:The additions are largely the work of Nathaniel Bowditch. Cf. the preface, signed: Edmund M. Blunt. Sept. 1, 1800.
Plate facing page 283 engraved by Samuel Hill.
Error in paging: page 236 misnumbered 214.
Bookseller's advertisement, pages [571-572].
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:xii, 1 unnumbered page, 14-570 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, diagrams ; 21 cm. (octavo)
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Place of Publication:United States -- Massachusetts -- Newburyport.
United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.