The American Coast Pilot; Containing the Courses and Distances Between the Principal Harbours, Capes & Headlands, From Passamaquoddy Through the Gulph of Florida; With Directions for Sailing Into the Same.

8vo. A Rare Early Printing of THE seminal early American coastal navigation guide. This is the 6th Edition, and the last to be published in Newburyport, MA. All of the Newburyport editions are quite scarce, and particularly so in original bindings, as many were lost in the Great Newburyport Fire of 1811. Fifteen black and white engraved plates, with significant tears to the New York and Chesapeake maps, including portions of those maps separated. Original leather, with gilt ruling to spine with burgundy title label missing. xiv, 15-389pp, [3]. Clean interior, save for contemporary signature to front pastedown. Front board, along with the first few pages, up to vi, detached. Sporadic foxing throughout. Plates with significant foxing. Leather rubbed and worn with moderate edge wear. Crease to spine, which is somewhat brittle, and with a chip to crown. Overall a handsome and quite rare early Newburyport edition of Blunt's defining work.