The new American practical navigator
Subtitle: being an epitome of navigation, containing all the tables necessary ...
By: by Nathaniel Bowditch ... ; illustrated with copperplates
Contributors: Lee, Marvin, former owner; Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828; Burndy Library
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Printed at Newburyport, Mass., 1802, by Edmund M. Blunt, for Cushing and Appleton, Salem : Sold by every book-seller, ship- chandler, and mathematical-instrument-maker in the United States and West Indies
Published: 1802
Place of publication: [Salem]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 589
Subjects: Nautical astronomy; Navigation; Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: Practical navigator.
Work titles: American practical navigator
Notes: Binder's label: Bowditch Practical Navigator.

Another issue of the "First edition" has imprint: Newburyport, Mass., Printed by E.M. Blunt for W.R. Wilder, Newport, 1802.

Signatures: pi₁ chi₁ [A]² B-T⁴ T⁴ X-2H⁴ A-B⁴ A-K⁴ L⁶ M-U⁴ W⁴ X-2R⁴ [2S]².

Publisher's advertisements: [7] p. at end.

Errata: p. [590].

Includes errata for Hutton's logarithmic tables, 2nd ed., London, 1794 and 3rd ed., London, 1801: p. [591]-[592].

Burndy. Science (rev. ed.) no. 15.

Exhibit Page opening : 84-85 1995/05/30 through 1996/05/10 William E. Baxter SIL Exhibition Gallery, NMAH SDS / "Science and the Artist's Book".

Book plate: Gift of Marvin Lee.

On front paste down: Photograph of Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Nathaniel Bowditch.

On verso of 1st folded leaf, ms. notes in ink: William Mansise? Co.