The new practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation; containing the different methods of working the lunar observations, and all the requisite tables used with the nautical almanac, in determining the latitude and longitude; and keeping a complete reckoning at sea: illustrated by proper rules and examples: : the whole exemplified in a journal kept from England to the island of Teneriffe ... / The first American, from the thirteenth English edition of John Hamilton Moore. ; Improved by the introduction of several new tables, and by large additions to the former tables, and revised and corrected by a skilful mathematician and navigator. ; Illustrated with copper-plates. ; To which are added, some general instructions and information to merchants, masters of vessels, and others concerned in navigation, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs.
| Author/creator | Moore, John Hamilton |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Second edition. |
| Publication Info | Newburyport [Mass.] : Printed by Edmund M. Blunt (Proprietor) 1800. Sold by every bookseller and ship-chandler in the United States. And by Thomas Biggs, no. 85, South Front Street, Philadelphia, [1800] |
| Description | xii, 1 unnumbered page, 14-570 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, diagrams ; 21 cm (8vo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838. |
| Other author/creator | Blunt, Edmund M. (Edmund March), 1770-1862, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Hill, Samuel, approximately 1766-1804, engraver. |
| Other author/creator | Moore, John Hamilton, -1807 Practical navigator. |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 37991. ^A478749 |
| General note | The additions are largely the work of Nathaniel Bowditch. Cf. the preface, signed: Edmund M. Blunt. Sept. 1, 1800. |
| General note | Plate facing p. 283 engraved by Samuel Hill. |
| General note | Error in paging: p. 236 misnumbered 214. |
| General note | Bookseller's advertisement, p. [571-572]. |
| References | Evans 37991 |
| References | Rink, E. Technical Americana, 3896 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 37991). |
| Genre/form | Booksellers' advertisements Massachusetts Newburyport. |
| Genre/form | Maps. |
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