The first American marine dictionary
The mariner's dictionary, or, American seaman's vocabulary of technical terms and sea phrases, used in the construction, equipment, management, and military operations, of ships and vessels of all descriptions ... Improved from an English work
Washington City: printed and published by William Duane, and sold by him at his book-stores, at Washington City and Philadelphia, 1805. First edition of the first separately printed marine dictionary published in the United States; 12mo, pp. iv, [2], 256; 8 composite engraved plates showing 120 illustrations; recent calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco label on spine; fine. "Though the body of the book is drawn from Falconer's Marine Dictionary, there are numerous additions, and the work can fairly be called the first American Marine Dictionary" (Scribner's 1937 Catalog # 113 item 361). This work is more correctly described as the first marine dictionary to be published in America: i.e. the first American edition of Moore's The British Mariner's Vocabulary, or Universal dictionary of technical terms and sea phrases used in the construction, equipment, management and military operations of a ship," which was first published in London by T. Hurst in 1801. The plates were re-engraved for this edition, and a new preface and a dedication to the Secretary of the Navy has been added, and, as is noted in the preface, "this edition has been adapted to the usages and sentiments, most dear and familiar to Americans; by whom, particularly in the navy, a love of their own country cannot be too much cherished". Not in Craig, not in Vancil. Zischka, p. 71 for the London, 1801 edition. Item #60312
Price: $2,000.00
