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, settings of the currents, &c., and the latitudes and longitudes of the principal harbours and capes : together with a tide table / by Edmund M. Blunt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blunt, Edmund M. (Edmund March), 1770-1862.

Hooker, William.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pilot guides--Atlantic Coast (North America).

Pilot guides.

Pilot guides--Atlantic Coast (South America).

Pilot guides--United States.

Coastwise navigation--United States.

Coastwise navigation.

Nautical charts--Atlantic Ocean.

Nautical charts.

Nautical charts--Mexico, Gulf of.

Tides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 676, 4 p., [20] leaves of plates (some fold.) ) ill., maps (some fold.) ;

Edition:

11th ed.

Other Title:

American coast pilot

Place of Publication:

New-York : E. and G.W. Blunt, 1827 (Gray & Bunce)

Notes:

"Corrected and improved by information derived from official documents, actual observations and the most experienced pilots."

Charts drawn by Edmund Blunt; engravings by William Hooker.

The first seven editions of this work (1796-1812) name Capt. Lawrence Furlong as the author. The eighth edition, "corrected and improved," names Edmund M. Blunt as the author; his name appears on the title page of the succeeding thirteen editions through 1867.

Error in paging: p. 525 misnumbered 225.

"Directions to the binder."--P. [iv].

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 6025.

OCLC:

10