The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harbours, Capes, and Headlands, on the Coast of North and South America: Describing the Soundings, Bearings of the Lighthouses and Beacons from the Rocks, Shoals, Ledges & with the Prevailing Winds, Setting of the Currents, & the Latitudes and Longitudes of the Principal Harbors and Capes; together with a Tide Table.

Blunt, Edmund M.

Published by Edmund & George Blunt, 1842

About this Item

Full calf binding with panels on spine. Top of spine missing 1" x 1" piece - see photo. Book is tight and square with front board a tiny bit cocked upwards. Boards have use and leather on spine has some cracking. Title label panel in red, gilt lettering still quite bright. Only markings in text or front are the prior owners name on inside front cover and the label for the bookshop where book was originally published: Henry Whipple - at his Book and Chart Store - Salem, Mass. Published by Edmund & George W. Blunt, January 1842. Fourteenth Edition, Improved. With the Preface to the Twelfth Edition of the American Coast Pilot and a Preface to the Fourteenth Edition. With 17 plates of various harbors or approaches, all in Very Good condition. Some minor spotting to top of several of them. Others spotless. 687pp.

Seller Inventory # blb02698

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harbours, Capes, and Headlands, on the Coast of North and South America: Describing the Soundings, Bearings of the Lighthouses and Beacons from the Rocks, Shoals, Ledges & with the Prevailing Winds, Setting of the Currents, & the Latitudes and Longitudes of the Principal Harbors and Capes; together with a Tide Table.
• Publisher: Edmund & George Blunt
• Publication Date: 1842
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Geography
  • Oceanography
  • Nautical/Maritime