Blunt, Edmund M. The American Coast Pilot. New York, 1815

BLUNT, EDMUND M.

THE AMERICAN COAST PILOT, CONTAINING THE COURSES & DISTANCES BETWEEN THE PRINCIPAL HARBOURS, CAPES & HEADLANDS FROM PASSAMAQUODDY, THROUGH THE GULPH OF FLORIDA … TOGETHER WITH THE COURSES AND DISTANCES FROM CAPE COD AND CAPE ANN TO GEORGE'S BANK … CORRECTED AND IMPROVED … EIGHTH EDITION. NEW YORK: FOR THE AUTHOR, 1815

8vo (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.; 235 x 146 mm). 15 engraved plates (5 folding); some browning and offsetting. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt-stamped and with morocco lettering-piece; some wear to spine and extremities.

First edition with Blunt listed as author instead of Captain Lawrence Furlong (d. 1806). Included in this edition is an advertisement for Blunt's nautical instrument and book store in New York, with a large woodcut of the shop. The first three editions of this book (1796–1800) were published without charts.

Campbell calls for 14 charts, instead of 15 as here, saying Blunt removed the chart of Charleston Harbor (present here).

LITERATURE:

Campbell 8

PROVENANCE:

Dr. Roger Gerry, Roslyn, N.Y. (inked stamp on upper pastedown).