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Re: History of Bowditch's Navigator
From: UNK
Date: 2005 Feb 2, 21:33 -0500
From: UNK
Date: 2005 Feb 2, 21:33 -0500
On Tuesday, February 01, 2005 5:03 PM Frank Reed asked: > Anyone interested in helping me assemble a history of Bowditch? I'm > thinking of something that would describe the various editions, maybe > a paragraph on each, similar to the listing in Campbell but verified > and updated and covering the "H.O." and later editions, too. I'm not sure I have much wisdom to contribute to this project, but I own a few editions and am happy to contribute grunt-work. I have the following: Blunt Editions: 1844 (14th) 1854 (17th) Government Editions: 1879 1902 1918 (both the large-format Navy and small-format Appleton printings) 1938 1943 1962 1966 1977 (vol I) & 1975 (Vol II) I also have Campbell (which you mention in an earlier post, somewhat negatively -- details?) and Burstyn's _At the Sign of the Quadrant_, which I assume you have or have access to at Mystic. -- Peter