Beschreibung:

FURLONG, Lawrence. The American Coast Pilot; Containing the Courses and Distances between the Principal Harbours, Capes and Headlands, from Passamaquoddy through the Gulph of Florida... together with the Courses and Distances from Cape-Cod and Cape-Ann to Georges'-Bank... Newburyport, Mass.: Edmund M. Blunt, 1798. 8 o in half-sheets (203 x 128 mm). With leaves 2X2-[3] inserted between pp. 176 and 177. (Some scattered pale foxing and browning.) Contemporary calf, printed "Notice" and "Mariner's Observe!" leaves from original wrappers mounted on front and back pastedowns (rebacked). Provenance : Robert Young (signatures on flyleaves, title and first text leaf). Second edition of Furlong's famous and oft-reprinted pilot. Howes F-421; Sabin 26219.