Item #22792 The shipmaster's assistant, and commercial digest: containing information useful to merchants, owners, and masters of ships. Joseph Blunt.
The shipmaster's assistant, and commercial digest: containing information useful to merchants, owners, and masters of ships

The shipmaster's assistant, and commercial digest: containing information useful to merchants, owners, and masters of ships

New York: E. & G. Blunt, 1837. 8vo, pp. xii, 9-683, [1]; contemporary sheep with moderate overall wear, spine beginning to flake, and light foxing throughout; a good, sturdy copy. "The following work, although purporting to be a second edition, is, in reality, almost altogether new" (Preface, p. iii). In fact, this edition was preceded by editions in 1822, 1829, and 1832 with the title, The Merchant's and Shipmaster's Assistant. Blunt (1792-1860) was the son of Edmund March Blunt (1770-1862), publisher of the American Coast Pilot (1796). He was trained as a lawyer and gained some attention for his writing on the Missouri question in 1820. He was an ardent Whig and protectionist and later one of the first members of the Republican Party. His knowledge of the law and his relation to the famous hydrographers Edmund and George W. Blunt (they were his brothers) made Blunt ably equipped to compile such a work as this. Chapter XIX deals with the slave trade. American Imprints 43281 and 43282. Item #22792

Price: $200.00

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