Name: The New American Practical Navigator being an epitome of navigation containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical almanac, in determining the latitude, and the longitude by lunar observations: And 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

Barcode: 2172

Image Number: 2172

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/2172.0001

Author: Blunt, Edmund M. (Edmund March), 1770-1862

Publishing Location: New York

Notes: The plates are engraved by William Hooker Title continued: "Also, the demonstrations of the usual rules of trigonometry: Problems in mensuration, surveying and gauging: Dictionary of sea-terms: And the manner of performing the most useful evolutions 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"

Date Produced: 1826

Language: English

Dimensions: Height: 22

Physical Description: 13 leaves of plates: 1 folded, illustrated, map

LC Call Number: VK555.B78 1826

OCLC: 20467460

Accession Number: SM-1826-10

Donor: Smith