The new practical navigator; being an epitome of navigation; containing the different methods of working the lunar observations, and all the requsite tables used with the nautical almanac...and keeping a complete reckonming at sea: illustrated by proper rules and examples: the whole exemplified in a journal kept from England to the island of Teneriffe.. de Moore, John Hamilton - 1800

Newburyport, (Mass.): printed by Edmund M. Blunt, (Proprietor), 1800. Second edition; 8vo, pp. xii, [13]-570, [2] Blunt ads; 8 copper engraved plates (the frontispiece with a 2" diameter (oil?) stain that pervades through to p. 20); original calf-backed marbled boards, worn and rubbed, joints cracked, spine with elongated crack, but preserving the original red morocco label; a fair, complete, unrestored, and relatively clean copy. While this book is based on Moore, it was substantially revised and enlarged for the American market by Blunt and first published in 1799. By 1802 Bowditch had revised it further and made it his own, adding the word "American" to the title. The work contains detailed sections on all aspects of mathematics, mathematical and navigational instruments, astronomy, geography, mensuration, surveying, the moon and tides, compass variations, ballast, piloting and seamanship, salvage, marine insurance, cargo, bills of exchange, etc. Evans 37991; Sabin 50412.