The New Practical Navigator
John Hamilton Moore
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Add to basketSold by Ironwolf Rare Books, Litchfield Park, AZ, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 7 May 2023
Condition: Used - Good
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Add to basketThe New Practical Navigator by John Hamilton Moore *** Highly influential maritime work on everything you need to know to successfully navigate and sail the oceans of the world. Was a "must have" for ship captains. Collated and complete, including original full calf binding, original endpapers and blank flyleaves (SCARCE). All plates as called for. OVERALL CONDITION: GOOD FULL TITLE: 1796 - The new practical navigator: being an epitome of navigation, containing the different methods of working the lunar observations, and all the requisite tables used with the nautical almanac, in determining the latitude and longitude, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea: illustrated by proper rules and examples; the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from England to the Island of Teneriffe: also, the substance of that examination, every candidate for a commission in the Royal Navy, and officer in the honourable East India Company's service, must pass through, previous to their being appointed: this, with the sea terms, are particularly recommended to the attention of all young gentlemen designed for, or belonging to, the sea. So that this book, and the nautical almanac, will be found fully sufficient for the seaman and teacher's use, and is rendered easy to any common capacity. BOOK INFO Published in 1796 by B. Law in London. Twelfth edition as indicated on title page and with correct 1796 publication date. Bound in its original full calf with five raised spine bands bordered in gilt and a burgundy morocco leather spine label with gilt lettering, Octavo, 8.5" x 5.5" Original binding, collated and complete: [8] 309, [217] including 6 pages of ads, 9 copper engraved plates - frontispiece of the other and illustrations, maps and diagrams. Illustrated within text throughout. Included are over a hundred numerical navigation charts, tips for nautical safety, essays, and a journal of a voyage. ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Hamilton Moore (1738 - 1807) was a Scottish teacher of navigation, chart seller, and hydrographer active in London during the latter part of the 18th century. Moore was born in Edinburgh and was educated in Ireland before joining the Royal Navy. After leaving the navy he set up a navigation academy in Brentford, Middlesex. In 1772 he published the navigation textbook The New Practical Navigator and Daily Assistant. The work became the most popular such text of its day and ran into some 17 editions, firmly establishing Moore's credentials. He taught navigation to a select audience as well as traded in navigational instrument and nautical charts. Moore began publishing his own charts. These were among the earliest blueback charts, called such for their distinctive blue paper backing. Moore took on draughtsman William Heather and John Noire, both future publishers of blueback nautical charts in their own right, to draw and engraves his charts. His obituary in The Gentleman's Magazine, a sign in and of itself of Moore's social significance, offered him high praise: "he caused the best Charts to be published that had ever been done by any individual in this or any other nation." CONDITION REPORT GOOD for a 225-year-old+ antiquarian book in its original binding and original endpapers and blank flyleaves (a lovely find!) and complete, including publisher ads. Exterior and binding - Binding is firm. Heavily rubbed and worn boards, spine and edges. Interior - some water dampening, a few pages with tears, head of FFEP former owner name excised, one page with a section of its fore-edge margin excised (no loss to text) one page with a pen-tip sized hole. Offsetting from plates, generally light foxing and lightly toned pages, grubby endpapers. Signs of handling - smudges, creasing, bent corners, small margin tears/chips.
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