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BOWDITCH, Nathaniel American Practical Navigator 1938
GPO, 1939,
BOWDITCH, Nathaniel. American Practical Navigator : An Epitome of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy. Originally by Nathaniel Bowditch. (Revised Edition of 1938). Washington : Government Printing Office, 1939. Pp 396 + 386. Illustrated. Lg 8vo, tan cloth. Name stamps, rubbed, else vg. 50.00
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STANFORD, Alfred BOWDITCH, Nathaniel) Navigator : The Story of Nathaniel Bowditch. 2nd pr.
William Morrow, New York, 1927,
STANFORD, Alfred. Navigator : The Story of Nathaniel Bowditch . NY: WilliamMorrow, 1927. Second Printing. Pp. [i]-xi,(1),[1]-308, including tipped-in frontispiece. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. A bi ography of Nathaniel Bowditch, the father of contemporary sailing navigation. Bowditch is known most for his compiling of the oft-reprinted "American Practical Navigation" volume, which is a required tome for anyone taking tothe water. Very slightly cocked, some light edgewear, spine text faded, gi ft inscription, else vg. 30.00
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BOWDITCH, Nathaniel) Oceanography. card covers
U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office, 1966,
BOWDITCH, Nathaniel. Oceanography. Part Six of American Practical Navigator (1958). 1966 - Corrected Print. [Washington] : U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office, 1966. Pp (72). Illustrated. 8vo, card covers. Vg. 8.00
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PAINE, Ralph D. HARADEN, Jonathan) BOWDITCH, Nathaniel) ENGLISH, Philip) Ships and Sailors of Old Salem. US no dj
Heath Cranton, 1924,
PAINE, Ralph D. The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem. L.: Heath Cranton, 1924. Pp (6),vii-xvii, (3),1-471, (3), frontispiece + 48 plates. 8vo, maroon cloth. "From log books, sea journals, and other manuscripts hitherto unpublished (most of them written during the years between the Revolution and the War of 1812), are herein gathered such narratives as those of the first American voyages to Japan, India, the Philippines, Guam, the Cape of Good Hope,Sumatra, Arabia, and the South Seas. These records, as penned by the seame n who made Salem the most famous port of the New World a century ago, are much more than local annals. They comprise a unique and brilliant chapter ofAmerican history, and they speak for themselves.". - from the Preface. Cha pters : 1. A Port of Vanished Fleets; 2. Philip English and his Era (1680-1750); 3. Some Early Eighteenth Century Pirates (1670-1725); 4. The Privateersmen of '76; 5. Jonathan Haraden, Privateersman (1776-1782); 6. Captain Luther Little's Own Story (1771-1799); 7. Richard Derby and his Son John (1774-1792); 8. Elias Haskett Derby and his Times (1770-1800); 9. Pioneers in Distant Seas (1775-1817); 10. The Building of the Essex (1799); 11. The First American Voyagers to Japan (1799-1801); 12. The First Yankee Ship at Guam(1801); 13. Nathaniel Bowditch and his Practical Navigator (1802) (pp.256- 277); 14. The Voyages of Nathaniel Silsbee (1792-1800); 15. The Voyages of Richard Cleveland (1791-1820); 16. The Privateers of 1812 (pp.321-345); 17.The Tragedy of the Friendship (1831); 18. Early South Sea Voyages (1832); 19. The Last Pirates of the Spanish Main (1832); 20. General Frederick Townsend Ward; 21. The Ebbing of the Tide. With appendix ("Lists of the PrivateArmed Ships of Salem in the Revolution and the War of 1812" ) and index. F ront hinge tender, spine sunned, wear to edges, else vg. 100.00
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