The American Coast Pilot, containing the Courses and Distances between the Principal Harbours, Capes and Headlands, from Passamaquoddy, through the Gulf of Florida;...together with Courses and Distances from Cape Cod and Cape Ann to George's Banks through the South and East Channels, and the Settings of the Currents.
New York: Printed for Edmund M. Blunt at the Quadrant ... Printed by George Largin, No. 5 Burling-Slip, Oct. 1815.
Price: $950.00
About the item
Eighth Edition. 14 engraved maps (5 folding). Full-page illustration of Blunt's store. xvi, 297, [1]; 86, [2] pp. Ad leaf in the rear. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep. Some wear, small area of loss at the head of the spine, lacks endpapers. Campbell 8; Rink 3937; Shaw & Shoemaker 33842.
Item #322081
Originally published in Newburyport in 1796 under the name of the author Lawrence Furlong, this is the first edition to carry the name Edmund Blunt on the title-page. Includes sailing directions to many of the east coast harbors and ports, with a number of them depicted in maps, listing courses and distances from Cape Cod and Cape Ann to George's Bank, and a tide table.
