(MARITIME) Bowditch Nathaniel The New American Practical Nav

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(MARITIME.) Bowditch, Nathaniel The New American Practical Navigator. Folding map, 7 plates. 589, [7] pages including [3] pages of publisher's ads. 8vo, contemporary calf, moderate wear, new spine label in period style; endpapers renewed, foxing, minimal dampstaining, intermittent worming, early repairs to map including closed tears and a filled area on the fore-edge affecting the neatline. Newburyport, MA: Edmund P. Blunt for Jacob Richardson of Newport, RI, 1802

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first edition under Bowditch's name. "Often termed the greatest book in all the history of navigation"--Grolier Hundred 25. This imprint is not recorded among the variants listed in Campbell or Karpinski. The collation matches Streeter's copy. Campbell, Practical Navigator 3; Dibner, Heralds of Science 15; Downs, Famous American Books 10; Howes B657 ("b"); Karpinski, page 142; Streeter sale VII:3967.