The new practical navigator
Subtitle: 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 ...
By: 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 former 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.
Contributors: Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.; Blunt, Edmund M. 1770-1862, ed.; Hill, Samuel, 1766?-1804, engraver.; Moore, John Hamilton, d. 1807.
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 37991.
Publisher: 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.
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Newburyport [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 570
Subjects: Nautical astronomy.; Navigation.; Money -- Tables, etc.
Notes: The additions are largely the work of Nathaniel Bowditch. Cf. the preface, signed: Edmund M. Blunt. Sept. 1, 1800.

Signatures: [A]þ́ B℗ø C-4Cþ́.

Plate facing p. 283 engraved by Samuel Hill.

Error in paging: p. 236 misnumbered 214.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [571-572]

Evans 37991.

Rink, E.  Technical Americana, 3896.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 37991)