The new American practical navigator
Subtitle: 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 : illustrated by proper rules and examples : the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all the rules of navigation are introduced : also, the demonstration of the usual rules of trigonometry; problems in mensuration, surveying, and gauging; dictionary of sea terms; and the manner of performing the most useful evolutions at sea : with an appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars; rules for finding the longitude of a place by observations of eclipses, occultations, and transits of the moon's limb over the meridian; also a new method for finding the latitude by two altitudes
By: by Nathaniel Bowditch
Contributors: Hooker, William, engraver
Edition: Ninth new stereotype edition.
Publisher: Published by E. & G.W. Blunt, proprietors; Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry
Published: 1837
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
Subjects: Nautical astronomy; Navigation
Other titles: Bowditch's Navigator
Notes: The plates are engraved by William Hooker.

SCDIRB copy (39088015715303) bound in tree sheepskin, title in gilt within red leather spine label; bookseller's ticket: sold by W. and S.B. Ives, Salem.

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries, Adopt-a-Book Program, Adopted by Mary and Harold Graul.