Search Results: the american practical navigator being an by bowditch nathaniel

Nabu Press, 2010-03-04. Paperback. Very Good. Very clean paperback copy that looks as if it has never been used. The UOC symbol on the rear cover has 2 small star shaped hole punches through it.

Arkose Press, 2015. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Paperback / softback. New.

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Hardback. New.

Nabu Press, 2012-03-02. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

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Hardback. New.

G.P.O. Acceptable. 0x0x0. Leather boards edges quite worn, spine decoration worn off, 643 quite tight pages some stains and foxing. 1898 Stamped Naval Militia ship's library rec'd Mar 27 1899 at the office of ADJ, GEN'L of VA. Cracked front gutters.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: E. & G. W. Blunt. Fair. 1847. Seventeenth Edition. Hardcover. Moderate foxing and dry rot, dog-ears, front board nearly detached, faint pencil notations on the front endpapers, spine mostly lost. Binder's delight. ; Full brown calf, copious tables, charts, graphs throughout. Reprinted several times, an important nautical and navigational text, this edition relatively scarce. Large/heavy book: international buyers may be charged for additional shipping costs.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 769 pages .

New York: E. & G. W. Blunt. Fair with no dust jacket. 1854. Hardcover. Twenty-fourth new stereotype edition. Hard cover published by E. and G. W. Blunt in 1854. No dust jacket. Brown calf leather covers. Front cover is almost detached. Spine is loose from binding. Corners of covers are bumped and split, and covers and spine have some dry rot, scrapes and stains. Inside covers have some pencil notations, and inside front cover has an ad for a nautical instrument maker. Front endpaper is taped to inside front cover, and has a name and address written at top. Pages have foxing and tanning. Pullout chart of the Atlantic Ocean is present at the front. The pullout graph in back of book is present. Book is in fair condition. Large 8vo, 779 pages, 3 lb.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 779 pages .

New York: E. & G.W. Blunt, 1846. Sixteenth new stereotype edition. Hardcover. Octavo, xv, 318, 451 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is brown with gold print on red banner. Boards in brown leather. Wear to spine caps and corners, front board is detached, wear to edges, spine tear repaired, peripheral toning, shelf wear. Text block has bookplate on front pastedown, damp stains to edges, mild foxing throughout. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece (folded map), drawings, plates, charts, tables. Note: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Section. 1376739. FP New Rockville Stock.

New York: E. & G.W. Blunt, 1851. Twentieth new stereotype edition. Hardcover. Octavo, xix, 317, 458 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is brown with author's name in ink. Boards covered in brown cloth sewn over original leather. Wear to spine caps, soiling, smudging/shelf wear. Text block has name in pencil on front flyleaf, cracked hinges, penciled notation on endpapers, mild amount of foxing throughout, damp stain on final pages. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece (map) and plates (some folded). NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Column. 1373179. FP New Rockville Stock.

Edmund M. Blunt. Collectible - Acceptable. New York: Edmund M. Blunt, 1821. 5th stereotype edition. 8vo. xiv,595pp. Illus., maps. Fair book. Boards detached. Considerable shelfwear. Some pages detached. (navigation, nautical astronomy, mathematics) Inquire if you need further information.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887. Spine top worn; upper corners of cover repaired; covers rubbed; two of the original leather spine labels slightly chipped; half of the third label (at the spine bottom) missing; three or four gatherings sprung but not loose. Ink stamp on front pastedown: "S.S. Arnheim, No. 8 Steward St., San Francisco.Agent for Hydrographic and U. S. Coast Survery Charrs (etc.]." Ink stamp with price ($2.25) on title page. Total of 9 plates. Five single page plates (one a map) at pp. 146, 174, 182, and 190; four folding plates (one a map) at pp 16, 20, 28, and 144. The first printing of this revision was in 1881; OCLC/WorldCat locates two copies of this 187 edition: U.S. Naval Observatory and Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Collation: xiv, 647 pp.. Original Sheep. Good/No Jacket.

Edmund M. Blunt, for Thomas and Andrews, Boston, Newburyport, Mass, 1807. 2nd ed., with many improvements. Hardcover. Acceptable. [Important Classic in Navigation: Bowditch created this book after five long sea voyages where he used Hamilton Moore's The New Practical Navigator and found it in error.] Rebound in modern cloth. 312, [276], 613-679, [1] pages. 9 illustrated plates (of 11), including folding map. Over 100 text illustrations. Minor staining to some plates, foxing. 1 1/2-inch closed tear to map. Tear to title page. Scattered early pencil notes. "Often termed the greatest book in all the history of navigation ... an intellectual achievement of our early culture ... indispensable to the maritime and commercial expansion of the nineteenth century" - Grolier Hundred 25. Campbell, Practical Navigator 5; Howes B657.