FURLONG, LAWRENCE The American Coast Pilot; Containing, the Courses and Distance from Boston to all the principal Harbours, Capes and Headlands included between Passamaquady and the Capes of Virginia ... Newburyport, [Massachusetts]: Blunt and March, 1796. First Edition. Modern three-quarters speckled brown leather over marbled boards, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, early upper wrapper bound in at front with manuscipt label. 8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches (21.3 x 13.5 cm). 3 blanks, [8], 125 pp., 3 blanks. Intermittent spotting, very lightly toned, short closed tear to wrapper with a small piece of the right corner detached, otherwise a very clean copy. A fine copy of a true American rarity, the first navigational guide of its kind printed in the United States. While attributed to Captain Furlong, this work was mostly assembled by its publisher, the Newburyport book store owner Edmund March Blunt, who would publish and sell nautical works throughout his career including many later editions of this work (constantly revised The American Coast Pilot has never gone out of print). The most important predecessor to Nathaniel Bowditch's The New American Practical Navigator, the American Coast Pilot is highly ambitious in scope, providing navigational directions from Passamaquoddy in New Brunswick, Canada to all major 18th century American harbors, the Gulf region, the Florida Keys, the Caribbean and further afield but is particularly strong in its descriptions of Boston, Cape Cod and Newburyport waterways. This copy is notable for its fine condition and the presence of six blank leaves which would have been coveted by early American captains aboard ship. An advertisment for Blunt's "Newburyport Book-Store" provides valuable insight to the books, charts and other tools available to late 18th century American captains and navigators. Extremely rare at auction, ABPC reports only two copies sold, the first a worn copy in wrappers (Baltimore, Feb 11, 1991, ) and the Frank Streeter copy (Christie's, New York, Apr 17, 2007, ). Evans 30464; Howes F421; Sabin 26218. C
FURLONG, LAWRENCE The American Coast Pilot; Containing, the Courses and Distance from Boston to all the principal Harbours, Capes and Headlands included between Passamaquady and the Capes of Virginia ... Newburyport, [Massachusetts]: Blunt and March, 1796. First Edition. Modern three-quarters speckled brown leather over marbled boards, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, early upper wrapper bound in at front with manuscipt label. 8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches (21.3 x 13.5 cm). 3 blanks, [8], 125 pp., 3 blanks. Intermittent spotting, very lightly toned, short closed tear to wrapper with a small piece of the right corner detached, otherwise a very clean copy. A fine copy of a true American rarity, the first navigational guide of its kind printed in the United States. While attributed to Captain Furlong, this work was mostly assembled by its publisher, the Newburyport book store owner Edmund March Blunt, who would publish and sell nautical works throughout his career including many later editions of this work (constantly revised The American Coast Pilot has never gone out of print). The most important predecessor to Nathaniel Bowditch's The New American Practical Navigator, the American Coast Pilot is highly ambitious in scope, providing navigational directions from Passamaquoddy in New Brunswick, Canada to all major 18th century American harbors, the Gulf region, the Florida Keys, the Caribbean and further afield but is particularly strong in its descriptions of Boston, Cape Cod and Newburyport waterways. This copy is notable for its fine condition and the presence of six blank leaves which would have been coveted by early American captains aboard ship. An advertisment for Blunt's "Newburyport Book-Store" provides valuable insight to the books, charts and other tools available to late 18th century American captains and navigators. Extremely rare at auction, ABPC reports only two copies sold, the first a worn copy in wrappers (Baltimore, Feb 11, 1991, ) and the Frank Streeter copy (Christie's, New York, Apr 17, 2007, ). Evans 30464; Howes F421; Sabin 26218. C
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