The oriental navigator, or, New directions for sailing to and from the East Indies : also for the use of ships trading in the Indian and China seas to New Holland, &c. &c. / collected from the manuscripts, journals, memoirs and observations of ... officers in the Hon. East India Company's service, and from the last edition of the French Neptune oriental, by Mons. D'Apres de Mannevillette ; with an appendix containing a particular account of several new tracks and discoveries ; to which is added The India officers and traders guide in purchasing the drugs and spices of Asia and the East Indies, with practical directions for the choice of diamonds and the use of Chinese touch needles in judging of the value of gold; likewise accurate tables of the weights, measures, coins, money, &c. &c. &c. of different settlements in India, from the latest and best authorities ; the whole arranged and now first published in one volume.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Huddart, Joseph, 1741-1816.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 682.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pilot guides.

Pilot guides--East Indies.

Physical Description:

566 pages ; 23 cm

6x9 in.

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

New directions for sailing to and from the East Indies.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by James Humphreys, 1801.

Notes:

For a listing of titles in each box consult American bibliography : a preliminary checklist for 1801-1819 / compiled by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.

Microopaque. Worcester, Mass. : American Antiquarian Society, 1964. 6 microopaques ; 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 682).

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker, 682.

OCLC:

63858073