1850 American Coast Pilot by Blunt Nautical MAPS Navigation Lighthouses Harbors

1850 American Coast Pilot by Blunt Nautical MAPS Navigation Lighthouses Harbors

Originally printed in 1796 (Adams), Edmund Blunt’s ‘American Coast Pilot’ was one of the earliest American works of navigation and travel. Blunt authored other nautical works which held great esteem and merit, and, according to Allibone,

“this work sustains a high reputation for accuracy, and is in general use by American merchant-marine. It has been translated into most of the languages of Europe.”

This guide was extremely important to North American voyages, and shows views of harbors as they existed prior to the Civil War. Views of Charleston, Long Island, Virgin Islands, Pensacola, and others. It includes bearings for lighthouses along the Eastern coastline, and warned against rocks, shoals, and dangerous ledges. It also charts sea currents, tides, and locations for them. This work would see twenty-one editions through 1867, before being taken over by the US Government.

Item number: #7121

Price: $550

BLUNT, Edmund

The American coast pilot : containing the courses and distances between the principal harbours, capes, and headlands, on the coast of North and South America: with directions for sailing into the same; describing the soundings, bearings of the light-houses and beacons from the rocks, shoals, ledges, &c. with the prevailing winds, setting of the currents, &c. and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal harbours and capes : together with a tide table

New-York : Edmund and George W. Blunt, 1850.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [xxxvi], 646, [2]
  • Illustrated with 16 engravings of navigational instruments such as chronometers, compasses, clocks, and maps
• References: Sabin 6025; Allibone I, 211
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~9.5in X 6in (25cm x 15.5cm)

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