| ID: | 2622 |
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| Entry Text: | Bowditch, Nathaniel. The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigating. Newburyport: E.M. Blount; London: J. Hardy; Washington: GPO, 1802, 1807, 1811, 1817, 1866 & many more up to 1883, c. 860 pp. At least 35 editions; publication taken over by the U.S. Hydrography Office in 1866; "seen as the greatest book in all navigation history." |