1800, ISBN: 9543002800

Full leather, [PU: Printed by Edmund M. Blunt, Good. No dust jacket. early repaired leather spine splitting along front hinge. Missing leather label. Front free endpaper missing. Chipped … Plus…

Full leather, [PU: Printed by Edmund M. Blunt, Good. No dust jacket. early repaired leather spine splitting along front hinge. Missing leather label. Front free endpaper missing. Chipped at spine ends. Contemporary ownership signature and remnants of wax seals on back of frontispiece. Very good. 570 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps. 570, [2]pp. plus 8 engraved plates. Contemporary tree calf, This copy bears the contemporary ownership inscription of Seth Walker, April 1801 in ink and other writing in pencil. Other blank pages at the end of the book are used for calculations in pencil and ink. All are very early. The second American edition, after the first American edition of the previous year, dated 1800. Although originally published in England in 1722, this is rightfully called an early American navigational guide because of its many revisions and additions by Nathaniel Bowditch. Two years after the publication of this book, Bowditch was compelled to produce an entirely new work, which he titled THE NEW AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR., a book Howes describes as the first accurate navigator's guide. The history of the Bowditch. NAVIGATOR. is treated exhaustively in John Campbell's HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR (Salem, 1964). Seth Walker the original owner of this book appears to have been the grandson of Seth Walker of Charlestown NH, one of the original Proprietors under the New Hampshire Charter. The young Seth Walker was born in 1747 and drowned in 1804. A fabulous old book, Newburyport, This copy bears the contemporary ownership inscription of Seth Walker, April 1801 in ink and other writing in pencil. Other blank pages at the end of the book are used for calculations in pencil and ink. All are very early. The second American edition, after the first American edition of the previous year, dated 1800. Although originally published in England in 1722, this is rightfully called an early American navigational guide because of its many revisions and additions by Nathaniel Bowditch. Two years after the publication of this book, Bowditch was compelled to produce an entirely new work, which he titled THE NEW AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR., a book Howes describes as the first accurate navigator's guide. The history of the Bowditch. NAVIGATOR. is treated exhaustively in John Campbell's HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR (Salem, 1964). Seth Walker the original owner of this book appears to have been the grandson of Seth Walker of Charlestown NH, one of the original Proprietors under the New Hampshire Charter. The young Seth Walker was born in 1747 and drowned in 1804. A fabulous old book, 570 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps. 570, [2]pp. plus 8 engraved plates. Contemporary tree calf,, DOM<