HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 'THE NEW AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR' AND 'THE AMERICAN COAST PILOT'

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dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to fr. and sp., near pristine but small touch of rubbing to bottom sp. and hint of bumping to outer corners. f/piece + xvi + 134+ colophon stating 1,000 copies werew printed, 14 further ills. plates in 5 block ex-pagination; no obvious internal faults bar some apparent tanning spots to one outer margin, Interesting 3 line pencil inscrip. to fr. end-paper explaining this was a preview copy from library of Derek Howse Head of Navigation and Astronomy Dept. at Greenwich Maritime Museum. Sipped in is a 3 pp. carbon copy of a review by Howse (not specified for which publication) stapled at top l.h. corner plus 3 pp. of scribbled notes by him (presumably) held by paper-cllip. Includes brief biographies of those involved in authoring and revising the two works i.e.: James Hamilton Moroe, 3 members of the Blunt Family, 2 Bowdicth's and Lawrence Furlong and William Hooker. The first title was pub. 1799, and the 2nd 1796 (I see Howse has pencil correction to a typo in bibliog. giving 2nd ed. of this as 1789 instead of 1798). 18cm x 26 cm. N° de ref. del artículo 013109

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