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[NAVIGATION--AMERICAN]. SUMNER, Thomas H. A New and Accurate Method of Finding a Ship's Position at Sea, by Projection on Mercator's Chart. Boston: Thomas Groom and Co., 1843. 8o. 6 charts (5 folding). Original cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- MAURY, Matthew Fontaine. The Physical Geography of the Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. 8o. 9 folding maps and charts (one colored). Contemporary half morocco. FIRST EDITION. -- MAURY. The Physical Geography of the Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856. 8o. 9 folding maps and charts. Original cloth. Later edition. -- MAURY. A New and Practical Treatise on Navigation. Philadelphia: Key and Biddle, 1836. 8o. Errata bound at end. 8 plates (one folding). (Lacking 2B1, 2B2, and 2C3.) Modern calf. -- MACKAY, Andrew. The Complete Navigator: or, An Easy and Familiar Guide to the Theory and Practice of Navigation. Philadelphia: B.B. Hopkins and Co., 1807. 8o. 7 plates. Contemporary calf. -- Another copy. -- MACKAY. The Description and Use of the Sliding Gunter in Navigation. Leith: Archibald Allardice, 1812. 8o. Engraved frontispice portrait and one folding plate. Modern half calf. Second edition. -- SILLIMAN, Benjamin, editor. The American Journal of Science and Arts. Volume 26, no. 1. New Haven: Hezekiah Howe, et al., April 1834. 8o. One plate. Original wrappers. -- HAYDEN, John. The Requisite Nautical Assistant: Containing the Latest Discoveries and Improvements in the Arts and Practice of Navigation. Boston: S. Thaxter and Son, 1881. 8o. 9 plates. Original cloth. -- MOORE, John Hamilton. The New Practical Navigator; Being an Epitome of Navigation. Newburyport, Mass.: Edmund M. Blunt, 1799. 8o. Contemporary calf. Evans 35834. Together 10 volumes, condition varies. (10)