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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.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. 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.

NY: E & G. W. Blunt. 1836. 8th ed. ...with the Nautical Almanac in determining the latitutde and the longitude by lunar observations: keeping a complete . reckoning at sea illustrated by proper rules and examples: the whole exemplified in a journal kept from Boston to Madeira in which all the rules of navigation are introduced, also, the demonstration of the usual rules of trigonometry problems in mensuration, surveying and gauging; dictionary of sea terms and the manner of performing the most useful revolutions at sea with an appendix containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars: rules for finding the longitude of a place by observations of eclipses or occultations; and a new method for finding the latitude by two altitudes. Leather binding, edge wear, ft cover partially detached, damp stains, circular marks on back endpaper. .

Edmund M. Blunt, 1821. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. Leatherbound. 595pp. Foldout map in front. Illustrated. Ads in the rear. Front cover is detached, but present. Textblock in in very good shape.

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.

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.

New York: E.M. Blunt and Samuel A. Burtus, 1817. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Leather. Signed - Association Copy. Fourth Edition. 8vo. New York: E.M. Blunt, printed by Samuel A. Burtus, 1817. Fourth edition, first stereotype edition, stated. 8vo. Full leather binding, leather spine label, xiv, 1 pp. advertisement, verso directions to the binder with plate placement, 12 engraved plates including map of the Atlantic Ocean, complete. 274 pp., plus 597 pp. tables/appendix, plus 7 pp. of handwritten notes laid in on the tables and additional handwritten tables showing the distance of the Sun, all by the book's owner in a period hand, plus 7 pp. advertising. One of the handwritten tables is pasted over a page of advertising. Includes ephemera found within the book: a segment of "The Omnipresence of the Deity" by Robert Montgomery and the internal signature of a "William Jenney" in a period hand. Rubbing to boards. Foxing from heavy to very light. The map of the Atlantic… Read More