BOWDITCH, Nathaniel (1773-1838). The New American Practical Navigator . Newburyport, Mass.: Edmund M. Blunt, 1802.
BOWDITCH, Nathaniel (1773-1838). The New American Practical Navigator . Newburyport, Mass.: Edmund M. Blunt, 1802. 8 o (220 x 132 mm). Folding engraved frontispiece map (short tear and small hole), 7 engraved plates, woodcut diagrams in text. (Map and preliminaries detached, some spotting.) Contemporary calf (a bit rubbed and dry); blue cloth folding case. Provenance : Thomas W. Streeter (bookplate; his sale part VII, Parke Bernet, 21 October 1969, lot 3967; purchased from Richard S. Wormser, 1959). "THE FIRST COMPLETE EPITOME OF PRACTICAL NAVIGATION FOR THE COMMON MAN" (Grolier American ) FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC AMERICAN NAVIGATIONAL MANUAL. On his voyage in 1800, the skilled navigator and mathematical prodigy, Nathaniel Bowditch discovered numerous errors in the existing navigational literature in use at the time. He discovered that the various English Navigators then in use had been calculated on the erroneous assumption that 1800 was a leap year, causing his ship to go 23 miles off its course. Bowditch discovered over 8000 errors during his revision of the English work by J.H. Moore, The new practical navigator , the first American edition of which was published in Newburyport by Blunt in 1799. This compelled him to write an entirely new work, The New American Practical Navigato r which was published simultaneously in England. "The result was this, the best book of its kind in English... [it] was the first complete epitome of practical navigation for the common man, and was at once acclaimed by the maritime world... Often termed the greatest book in all the history of navigation, this intellectual achievement of our early culture was indispensable to the maritime and commercial expansion of the nineteenth century" (Grolier American ). Ten further editions were issued before Bowditch's death in 1838. Dibner Heralds of Science 15; Grolier American 25; Howes B-657; Norman 292; Shaw & Shoemaker 1938; Streeter sale VII:3967 (this copy).
BOWDITCH, Nathaniel (1773-1838). The New American Practical Navigator . Newburyport, Mass.: Edmund M. Blunt, 1802.
BOWDITCH, Nathaniel (1773-1838). The New American Practical Navigator . Newburyport, Mass.: Edmund M. Blunt, 1802. 8 o (220 x 132 mm). Folding engraved frontispiece map (short tear and small hole), 7 engraved plates, woodcut diagrams in text. (Map and preliminaries detached, some spotting.) Contemporary calf (a bit rubbed and dry); blue cloth folding case. Provenance : Thomas W. Streeter (bookplate; his sale part VII, Parke Bernet, 21 October 1969, lot 3967; purchased from Richard S. Wormser, 1959). "THE FIRST COMPLETE EPITOME OF PRACTICAL NAVIGATION FOR THE COMMON MAN" (Grolier American ) FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC AMERICAN NAVIGATIONAL MANUAL. On his voyage in 1800, the skilled navigator and mathematical prodigy, Nathaniel Bowditch discovered numerous errors in the existing navigational literature in use at the time. He discovered that the various English Navigators then in use had been calculated on the erroneous assumption that 1800 was a leap year, causing his ship to go 23 miles off its course. Bowditch discovered over 8000 errors during his revision of the English work by J.H. Moore, The new practical navigator , the first American edition of which was published in Newburyport by Blunt in 1799. This compelled him to write an entirely new work, The New American Practical Navigato r which was published simultaneously in England. "The result was this, the best book of its kind in English... [it] was the first complete epitome of practical navigation for the common man, and was at once acclaimed by the maritime world... Often termed the greatest book in all the history of navigation, this intellectual achievement of our early culture was indispensable to the maritime and commercial expansion of the nineteenth century" (Grolier American ). Ten further editions were issued before Bowditch's death in 1838. Dibner Heralds of Science 15; Grolier American 25; Howes B-657; Norman 292; Shaw & Shoemaker 1938; Streeter sale VII:3967 (this copy).
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