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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 ..
by Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
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.
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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1376739
- Title
- 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 ..
- Author
- Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Sixteenth new stereotype edition
- Publisher
- E. & G.W. Blunt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1846
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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