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 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 ... with an appendix containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars ...
By: by Nathaniel Bowditch.
Edition: 5th stereotype ed.
Publisher: Published by Edward M. Blunt, for William Hooker
Published: 1821
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
Subjects: Navigation.; Nautical astronomy.; Navigation -- Tables.
Genres: Tables.
Other titles: American practical navigator; Practical navigator; American navigator; Bowditch's navigator
Notes: Advertisements: [6] p. at end.

Shoemaker, 4811

Ex-library stamp on t.-p.: Boston College High School.

BURNS copy imperfect: front cover and p. 241-262 slightly detached; frontispiece map folded incorrectly.

Copy 2 has in manuscript on front paste-down endpaper: Isaac H.[?] Sprague. Duxbury, Mass. Nov. 1st, 1869.

BURNS copy 2 imperfect: covers and front free endpapers detached; t.-p. and frontispiece map partly detached.