(MARITIME) Furlong Lawrence The American Coast Pilot

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(MARITIME.) Furlong, Lawrence. The American Coast Pilot. 8vo, contemporary calf, covers detached; minor foxing, short closed tear on title page; early owner's inscriptions and calculations on endpapers, including note concerning its purchase from bookseller William Wilkinson. Newburyport, MA, 1800

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Third edition, and the last without plates. The new preface by editor and publisher Edward Blunt denounces pilots for their reluctance to assist him, blaming "the narrow selfishness of a bigoted profession." Campbell, American Coast Pilot 3; Howes F421. This copy cited in the online Atlas of the Rhode Island Book Trade.