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1807 · Best.-Nr. 55849 — Philadelphia: Published by B.B. Hopkins and Co. and sold by W.P. Farrand No. 170 Printed by T. & G. Palmer 1807. 8vo. xxiii 1 270; 271-275 1 40 16 15-16 17-220 4 pp. including binders instructions and publisher’s advertisement. With 7 copper-engraved plates & maps 6 engraved by Benjamin Tanner. Contemporary polished brown calf red & gilt morocco spine label chipping to head of spine minor edgewear occasional interior foxing & toning still a VG- copy from the library of John L. Gow 1797-1866 noted Pennsylvania attorney w/ ownership label and markings on front pastedown. First American edition of this classic navigation handbook which was first published in 1804 and here contained substantial corrections to the tables of the latitudes and longitudes of places on the American coast and in the West Indies as well as an improved system of finding the longitude by P. Delamar of Philadelphia. Mackay 1760-1809 was noted Scottish mathematician and astronomer taught navigation and instructed in methods of how to find longitude. Shoemaker 12965. Published by B.B. Hopkins and Co., and sold by W.P. Farrand, No. 170, Printed by T. & G. Palmer, unknown