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The new American practical navigator : 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 ... 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 ... / By Nathaniel Bowditch ... and, since his decease, continued by his son, J. Ingersoll Bowditch.
| Main Author: | Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838. |
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| Other Authors: | Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll, 1806-1889., Hooker, William, 1782-1856. |
| Language(s): | English |
| Published: |
New-York : Published by E. & G. W. Blunt, proprietors ... Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry, 1844. |
| Edition: |
Fourteenth new stereotype edition. |
| Subjects: |
Navigation.
Nautical astronomy. |
| Note: |
On verso of title page: Printed by J.M. Elliott, 33 Liberty Street, N.Y. The plates are engraved by William Hooker. Three pages at end contain a publishers' advertisement. |
| Physical Description: |
xv, [1], 317, [1] p., [1] leaf, 449, 3 p., 13 leaves of plates (1 folded) :
ill., maps, diagrs. ;
23 cm.
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| Original Format: | Book |
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