Bowditch Nathaniel, First Edition (23 results)

Paperback. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). First Pbk. Edition. New York, NY: David McKay Company, Inc. G/No Dustjacket. (1980). First Pbk. Edition. Paperback. 8vo., 306 pp., rubbed, bumped .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very clean hardcover book and dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with white lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs, maps and charts, cloud code guide with photographs, 14-page glossary, Appendix with list of continuous VHF-FM weather broadcasts. 186 pages. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, unchipped, two very short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Invaluable information for the mariner, yachtsman and student. Selected from Nathaniel Bowditch's "American Practical Navigator," it includes Beaufort Scale Chart, Cloud Chart, weather observations, tropical cyclone information, weather and weather forecasting.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 390 & 388 pages, photos, drawings, illustrations, tables, Very good with some very old damp staining in last few pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover book is very good ++ condition. Tightly bound, no markings, pages have yellowed with time.Appears unused. A guide to observing and understanding wind, wave, and sky - simple enough for every yachtsman to understand.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good- in a Very Good dust jacket. Top half of FEP has been clipped out. A few tears to jacket edges. ; 9.10 X 6.10 X 1.20 inches; 306 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: F/F/No DW. y First Edition. HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Revised.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1977 (1st in 1802)* Publisher: Defence Mapping Agency, Hydrographic Centre.* Binding and cover condition: Dark Green cloth, Gilt title to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight small mark to fore edge otherwise No Visible Faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Multiple B/w Photos, prints and line drawings throughout with some colour plates including one fold-out chart.* Pages: 1104 pp. text. 249 pp. Appendices. Xxxi pp Index at rear.* Description: This epitome of navigation has been maintained continuously since it was first published in 1802. The U.S.Navy maintained ?Bowditch? from 1868 until 1972, when the Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic Centre was assigned the responsibility for its publication. The intent of the original author to provide a compendium of navigational material understandable to the mariner has been consistently followed. Additions have gradually been made to bring the information up to date and to acquaint the modern mariner with the latest in navigational developments and equipment including radio, radar, satellites etc etc.* A FINE copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS. No dust jacket.*. n.

Leinen-O. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage,. 1386 Seiten, gr.8°, reichh. illus.mit Fotos, Karten, Zeichn.etc., gutes Exemplar P13399_Seefahrt Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2100.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Canadian Edition. IN FAIR TO GOOD CONDITION. OWNERSHIP - With signature of George Baty Blake on ffp. Balke was a dry goods importer in Boston, later to become Banker of Blake Bros. & Co. Also an Abolitionist, and purchaser of the former Tappan House in Brookline. Varying pagination, bound in half red leather & marbled paper. Covers show edge/corner wear/tear, paper rubbed, front cover detached, binding is tight. Occasional leaf laid in.

1st ed. thus orig. cloth Nice Copy lge. octavo 1524pp., b/w pls., text ills., diags., appends., index, Standard reference. Greatly enlarged edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition in tan kid leather. Some slight browning of pages; otherwise in very good condition and fully intact. Has former owner's name (pencil) and a few notes written in small letters in ink on the first page. (BR) Box 317.

1st ed. thus orig. cloth Near Fine lge. octavo 852pp., text ills., diags., appends., index, Standard reference. 2 Parts in one volume. Stamp of Royal Victorian Aero Club. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frontispiece [portrait of Nathaniel Bowditch], 168 pp; 1 plate [portrait of Mary Bowditch]. Original printed boards, recently rebacked with new cloth spine. Foxed at the beginning and at the end, including the two portraits. First Separate Edition ("a small extra edition"; see below). INSCRIBED BY NATHANIEL INGERSOLL BOWDITCH (on the front board): "Thos. Motley Esq/ from the author." Also INSCRIBED BY NATHANIEL INGERSOLL BOWDITCH (on p. [6]): "Thomas Motley Esq/ with the regards of/ The Author/ Boston May 8 1839." The title page reads: Mécanique Céleste by the Marquis de la Place . . . Translated, with a Commentary, by Nathaniel Bowditch, L.L.D . . . Volume IV. With a Memoir of the Translator, by His Son, Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch. This memoir was also published in the complete volume IV of Nathaniel Bowditch's translation of LaPlace's Mécanique céleste. A more common, second edition was published in 1840. "Of the Mécanique Céleste only five hundred copies have been printed, the greater part of which will probably remain unsold for several years, as, from the nature of its subject, it must necessarily find but few readers, besides that it is contained in four large and expensive quarto volumes. The author has, therefore, caused to be printed a small extra edition of the Memoir [offered here], chiefly with the view of presenting it to such individuals as he believed would feel an interest in the account which he has given of his father's life and character" (p. [6]). Although there is not a stated limitation for this "small extra edition", it was certainly much less than the 500 copies of the entire volume IV. The space left at the bottom of p. [6] for an inscription (see photo) suggests that most, and possibly all, copies were inscribed. But the inscribed copies are not necessarily of equal interest. This is an especially interesting copy because its recipient Thomas Motley was the employer of Nathaniel Bowditch. When Bowditch went to work for Motley, he did so because of the much higher salary, which helped provide the money Bowditch needed for the publication of his massive four volume translation of Laplace's work. About the recipient of this copy: Thomas Motley was a Director of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company. In 1823, Bowditch left the Essex Fire and Marine Insurance Company in Salem, Massachusetts, and moved to Boston to become Actuary of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company at five times his previous salary. This move was prompted in part by Bowditch's need for funds to publish his translation of Laplace's Mécanique celeste. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition of this privately issued book. Half-leather and marbled paper boards; some rubbing and foxing; very good. Presentation copy; inscribed in the month of publication by the author (son of the author of The American Practical Navigator. Ingersoll was his mother's maiden name) to (evidently) his wife (Elizabeth Francis) 'Oct. 21 1851. Lizzie from N.I.B.' All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First English Edition. xxiv, 746, (1) pp. Hardcover, bound in full tan buckram with spine label. An ex-library copy with the usual markings, the text with very few and minor blemishes. Volume one only of a five-volume set.

With a Memoir of the Translator by his son, Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch. 168 pp. Folio, original printed cloth-backed boards. First separate edition. A few spots of foxing; backstrip largely perished though the sewing structure is sound; light soiling to boards; corners quite worn. A presentation copy, inscribed on the presentation page by the Author, Boston, July 26, 1839, and at the top corner of the front board. The Memoir was printed as part of the Fourth Volume of Dr. Bowditch's Translation of the La Place's Mechanique Celeste. "Of the Mechanique Celeste only five hundred copies have been printed, the greater part of which will probably remain unsold for several years.contained in four large and expensive quarto volumes. The author has, therefore, caused to be printed a small extra edition of the Memoir, chiefly with the view of presenting it to such individuals as he believed would feel an interest in the account he has given of his father's life and character.".

Newburyport: Edmund M. Blunt, 1802 (and) 1804. The first complete epitome of practical navigation for the common man, at once acclaimed by the maritime world. Often termed the greatest book in the history of navigation, this intellectual achievement of our early culture was indispensable to the maritime and commercial expansion of the nineteenth century. Grolier 100 First edition of a keystone work in the history of navigation. See Campbell #3, Karpinski p. 142. The folding frontispiece chart, often incomplete or missing, is present in this copy and in very good condition. Scattered foxing and tanning in text. Ownership signature in pencil of "J.H. Holmes 1818" on title page. Rebound in full calf with original spine label and gilt rules on backstrip. This is a very good copy of a major contribution to American intellectual history. Bound in with the "Navigator" is the rare "Appendix" in which Bowditch corrects the instructions on p.180 of his "Practical Navigator" for calculating the distance of the moon from the sun or a star. Four new tables are added to facilitate calculation. See Shaw & Shoemaker 5896. The "Appendix" is certainly a rarer item than the rare "Navigator." Worldcat shows 9 institutions holding copies, but few copies appear in the trade. The most recent sale of the "Appendix" at auction was at the, second Streeter sale, in which a copy in wrappers sold for $6600. Navigator and Appendix together. . 22 cm. xvi, 17-246, (plus "Tables," "Sea Terms," "Explanation." "Evolutions at Sea"), 533-589, (3), (4 publisher's ads) pp. (bound with) (40), (1 publisher's ad) pp. 7 b/w plates and folding chart as frontispiece. Â"The first complete epitome of practical navigation for the common man, at once acclaimed by the maritime world. Often termed t.

Newburyport: Edmund M. Blunt, 1802 (and) 1804. The first complete epitome of practical navigation for the common man, at once acclaimed by the maritime world. Often termed the greatest book in the history of navigation, this intellectual achievement of our early culture was indispensable to the maritime and commercial expansion of the nineteenth century. Grolier 100. First edition of a keystone work in the history of navigation. See Campbell #3, Karpinski p. 142. Grolier 100. The folding frontispiece chart, often incomplete or missing, is present in this copy and in very good condition. Scattered foxing and tanning in text. Ownership signature in pencil of "J.H. Holmes 1818" on title page. Rebound in full calf with original spine label and gilt rules on backstrip. This is a very good copy of a major contribution to American intellectual history. Bound in with the "Navigator" is the rare "Appendix" in which Bowditch corrects the instructions on p.180 of his "Practical Navigator" for calculating the distance of the moon from the sun or a star. Four new tables are added to facilitate calculation. See Shaw & Shoemaker 5896. The "Appendix" is certainly a rarer item than the rare "Navigator." Worldcat shows 9 institutions holding copies, but few copies appear in the trade. The most recent sale of the "Appendix" at auction was at the, second Streeter sale, in which a copy in wrappers sold for $6600. Navigator and Appendix together. . 22 cm. xvi, 17-246, (plus "Tables," "Sea Terms," "Explanation." "Evolutions at Sea"), 533-589, (3), (4 publisher's ads) pp. (bound with) (40), (1 publisher's ad) pp. 7 b/w plates and folding chart as frontispiece. Â"The first complete epitome of practical navigation for the common man, at once acclaimed by the maritime world. Often termed t.

Newburyport, MA: Edmund M. Blunt, 1806. In 1806 the great navigator and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch published a "Chart of the Harbours of Salem, Marblehead, Beverly and Manchester from a Survey taken in the Years 1804, 5 & 6." The chart has become something of a rarity, with good examples fetching prices in the low five figures. Rarer still is the book of sailing directions intended to accompany it. While I've had the chart, in first, second, and later states, I'd never seen the book of sailing directions until this copy turned up. For more about this rarity, see Guthorn, p. 34; Campbell p. 58; DAB I, 497; Sabin 6996 (with incorrect pagination, and a note suggesting the manuscript for this work might be held in Boston Public Library). Burstyn p.115. Shaw & Shoemaker 10022. The pamphlet is in fine, crisp condition, bound in 19th century cloth over marbled boards, with original blue wrappers bound in. The title page bears the ownership inscription of Wm.Gibbs, 1829, and he has written the title and other information on the front wrapper. Gibbs was a genealogist and historian. He died in 1853. His family papers are held at the Clements Library.Worldcat shows 11 institutions holding copies of this book, but it is rare in the trade, with no copies or reprints online, and few copies at auction. The most recent auction sale was of a presentation copy at Christies in 2007. It sold for $19,500. Reese Company is offering a rebound copy with p. 18 shaved close and final blank lacking for $13,500. This pamphlet is offered with a copy of "Chart of the Harbors of Salem, Marblehead, Beverly and Manchester From a Survey Taken in the Years 1804, 5 & 6 by Nathl. Bowditch"The chart was surveyed during the three years following Bowditchs last voyage, and when he had become president of the Essex Fire and Marine Insurance Company. He had made a survey of Salem with Captain Gibaut in 1794. Salem, and the other local ports, were utilized progressively less because of hazardous entry."Guthorn, U.S. Coastal Charts p. 34. The chart, presumably, was produced to assist mariners in trading at Salem. The copper plate of this historic chart survives (Peabody Essex Museum), and over the years, modern restrikes have been printed from it. This impression is one of those. It was printed from the plate of the second impression, made in 1834, as indicated on the chart itself, with "additions and alterations" Charles M. Endicott and Joseph Perkins, jr., branch pilot. Plate size measures 27 x 22 inches. Fine condition, printed on heavy stock. Pamphlet and chart . 21.5 cm. v, (6)-30 pp. In 1806 the great navigator and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch published a.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Rare first edition of Bowditch's classic -- widely regarded as the greatest book in the history of navigation. During his revision of the earlier British work by J. H. Moore, Bowditch discovered over 8000 errors, and elected instead to write a completely new book. The New American Practical Navigator quickly became the preeminent text on maritime navigation. Handsomely rebound in half leather (leather spine and corners) over decorated boards. New decorated endpapers have been added, while preserving the original endpapers. Previous owner name of "Talbot Chambers. Carlisle" is written and scratched through twice on (original) front endpage. Contents with sporadic foxing and frequent offsetting, particularly from the plates. A handful of pages with short edge-tears, plus a longer, 1.5 inch tear to pages vii-x of the Preface. All seven plates and the fold-out map are present and attached. The folds of the map have been narrowly reinforced on the reverse side. 589 pages, followed by Errata, "A List of Errors in Hutton's Logarithms", a statement concerning the book by the District of Massachusetts, and three pages advertising Edward M. Blunt's store.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Frontispiece [of the Massachusetts General Hospital], xi, 442 pp, 1 leaf [errata]; 3 plates (at pp. 28, 136, 376). Later cloth. Frontispiece and plates are foxed. Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY N. I. BOWDITCH TO MORRILL WYMAN: "Morrill Wyman (son of the late Dr. Rufus Wyman)/ with the regards of/ N I Bowditch." "Pages 212-341 are devoted to the ether discovery. The hospital report of 1848 is reprinted on pp. 215-248" (Fulton & Stanton, The Centennial of Surgical Anesthesia. An Annotated Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets Bearing on the Early History of Surgical Anesthesia Exhibited at the Yale Medical Library IV.43). Most copies of this book, which was privately printed, are signed by Nathaniel I. Bowditch, but the recipients are of very different statures. This copy is especially interesting. Rufus Wyman was the superintendent of the McLean Hospital for the Insane from its inception in 1818 to 1835. There are references to Rufus Wyman on forty two pages in this book (I will send you a list of the page numbers!). Rufus Wyman was the father of Morrill Wyman, the recipient of this copy, and of Jeffries Wyman. Quoting from Wikipedia about Morrill Wyman: "Early in his career Wyman became interested in ventilation, and became an expert on the ventilation of sickrooms and public buildings. A paper on the subject won an award from the Massachusetts Medical Society, and he published a book on the subject in 1846. He also devised a method and device for removing excess fluid from the chest cavity (1850). During the Civil War he served on a Sanitary Committee that inspected army medical facilities, being considered too old and too busy of a doctor to send to the front lines. After the Civil War Wyman became interested in hay fever, which he and members of his family suffered from, and he conducted experiments that convinced him that ragweed was a cause of what he called 'Autumnal Cattarh'; gathering data from correspondents, he published the first pollen maps of the United States so that sufferers could plan vacations in low pollen areas. In 1850, Wyman performed the first recorded thoracentesis, later described by Henry Ingersoll Bowditch after performing the procedure on one of Bowditch's patients the same year. Wyman lectured on medical subjects for many years, both at a private medical school which he and his brother Jeffries conducted in Boston and at Harvard, where he served as interim professor of anatomy 1853-1856. He took a special interest in the Harvard Medical School during his terms as a Harvard overseer (1875-1887).". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [4], [761]-910, [107] pp. Cloth-backed marbled boards, 4to (28.4x22 cm/11¼x8¾ in.), paper spine label. Corners of boards slightly worn, date '1834' written on title page. Else Very Good. Bowditch's celebrated translation of Vols. I-IV of Laplace's Mécanique céleste (1st French ed., 5 Vols., 1799-1825) was published in four volumes (1829-1832-1834-1839). 'There are two early English translations of Book I and Books I and II respectively . . . Both were entirely superseded by the splendid work of Nathaniel Bowditch, Mécanique céleste by the Marquis de La Place. Translated, with a Commentary, 4 vols. (Boston, 1829-1839). Bowditch's commentary in the footnotes is an indispensable vade mecum for the study of Laplace, explaining and filling out the demonstrations, and containing a great body of historical as well as mathematical and astronomical elucidation. Bowditch did not translate Volume V of Mécanique celeste' (D.S.B. XV: 388). 'By 1818 Bowditch had completed his translation of the first four volumes of the Mécanique celeste. His purpose was threefold: to supply steps omitted from the original text; to incorporate later results into the translation; and to give credits omitted by Laplace. There is no evidence that Laplace ever responded to any communication from Bowditch, a fact sometimes ascribed to the third purpose. The four volumes appeared in 1829, 1832, 1834, and 1839, the last posthumously [Bowditch died March 16, 1838]. The delay in publication was undoubtedly due in part to financial problems. Bowditch, who would not have people subsidize, out of regard for him or other irrelevant reasons, a book they could not read, printed the work at his own expense. It is also most likely that he continued to work over the volumes between 1818 and their appearance, particularly to bring the subject matter up to date . . . Probably the only person who aided Bowditch was Benjamin Peirce, who read over part of the text for errors. Printed in a small edition, the work was perhaps more widely admired than read, simply serving to confirm the translator's already high reputation. Nevertheless, outside of France, particularly in English-speaking countries, Bowditch's edition, rather than the original, was often the means of learning about the mechanics of the heavens' (D.S.B. II: 368). 'Bowditch made the translation between 1815 and 1817. He held off publishing it in the expectation that Laplace intended to issue a revised edition of Vol. 1 in order to incorporate the material from the supplement to vol. 3 [offered here], which developed an improvement Poisson had made in the proof of the invariability of planetary mean motions by taking account of the square of the perturbing masses. Bowditch expected that Laplace would also revise Book III, vol. 2, in order to remedy certain defects in the calculation of the action of spheroids pointed out by James Ivory' (Gillispie, Pierre-Simon Laplace, p. 283). Houzeau & Lancaster 11976. Bowditch wanted to 'point out some of the important improvements made by Gauss, Olbers, and others, in the calculation of the orbit of a planet or comet, moving in ellipses, parabola or hyperbola' (Introduction).

First separate edition, half title. First separate edition, half title. Frontispiece portrait of Nathaniel Bowditch and a portrait of Mary Bowditch. 168 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Inscribed on the upper cover to the American essayist "Henry H. Tuckerman from the Author." and then again on the limitation page [Printed]This copy is presented to "Henry Harris Tuckerman Esq, with the respect of the author. Boston July 31, 1839." with notice on this page "The following Memoir has been printed as part of the Fourth Volume of Dr. Bowditch's Translation of the Mécanique Céleste.only five hundred copies have been printed." Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer and mathematician, and author of "The New American Practical Navigator" was the most important author to American sea captains. American Imprints 54606; Sabin 7000 (second edition) Original cloth spine and paper boards. "Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch [Mécanique Céleste.] Frontispiece portrait of Nathaniel Bowditch and a portrait of Mary Bowditch. 168 pp. 2 vols. Folio.

Hand-coloured engraved map, engraved by Hooker & Fairman, on laid paper watermarked "J. Whatman 1804". Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 27 inches. An American cartographic rarity: the true first edition of Bowditch's famed chart of the coasts of Salem, Beverly, Marblehead and Manchester. Bowditch's separately-issued chart, the first accurate chart of those waters, was among the earliest nautical charts based on first-hand surveys by an American to be published in the United States. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of a local shipmaster, at a young age Nathaniel Bowditch was apprenticed to a local ship chandlery. With his intelligence and mathematical skills evidenced in abundance, he was encouraged by three local Harvard-trained scholars and inventors: Nathan Read, John Prince, and William Bentley. Under their tutelage, he studied Latin, French, mathematics, natural philosophy, astronomy, navigation and he constructed his own surveying equipment. In 1794, Bowditch assisted Bentley and shipmaster John Gibaut in a land survey of Salem. Gibaut shortly thereafter appointed Bowditch as his clerk on a voyage to the East Indies. Between 1795 and 1803, Bowditch sailed to the East Indies five times, continuing his studies on chartmaking and navigation on board. By his final voyage, Bowditch served as master and part-owner of the ship. Practical sailing experience combined with his studies of astronomy made Bowditch one of the best navigators in America. In 1799, publisher and chartseller Edmund Blunt hired Bowditch to revise John Hamilton Moore's New Practical Navigator. Bowditch added much in the way of additional information to the work and contributed so much in the way of revisions, that Blunt decided to completely redo the book, publishing it in 1802 with a new title and with Bowditch listed as the author. Bowditch's American Practical Navigator would prove a fundamentally important work on the art of navigation, with scores of tables and diagrams, and a wealth of practical information, becoming known as the Seamen's Bible. Around the time of the first publication of Bowditch's Navigator, while serving as the President of the Essex Fire and Marine Insurance Company, it became evident that the existing charts of the waters around Salem and Marblehead were deficient. In a rare, separately-published 30-page text of sailing directions to accompany the present chart, Bowditch writes: "The only chart of the entrance of the harbours of Salem, Marblehead, Beverly and Manchester, is that published from the survey taken by Holland and his assistants, just before the American revolutionary war. That period was particularly unfavorable for obtaining an accurate survey of the sea-coast, as the Americans were generally opposed to its being done at that time, fearing that it would give the British the great advantage of being able safely to enter with their armed ships into any of our harbours. In consequence of this, Holland received but little assistance from our pilots, in exploring the sunken ledges and shoals off our harbours; and as it was almost impossible to discover them without such assistance, they were generally omitted by him. This deficiency renders those charts in a great degree useless, though they are accurate as respects the bearings and distances of the islands and the coast. From the time of Holland's survey, till the year 1794, nothing was towards obtaining a more accurate chart. In that year a general survey of the state was ordered by the legislature; but it is to be regretted that this survey was not directed to be made in a manner calculated to ensure accuracy in the execution of it . the laudable intentions of the legislature were very imperfectly carried into execution; and the map . was such as was to have been expected." He continues by describing his first-hand surveys to produce this chart by himself, assisted by George Burchmore & William Ropes III: "To do this an excellent theodolite, made by Adams, furnished with a tel.