American Practical Navigator – No. 9 (1939)
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American Practical Navigator – No. 9 (1939)
by Nathaniel Bowditch
Full Title: American Practical Navigator – No. 9 : An Epitome of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy
9 ¾ x 7 x 2 ¼. In English. Printed by the Government Printing Office, Washington, DC., for the United States Hydrographic Office under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, 1939. Large volume. Later edition. Illustrated. 386 pp. Complete. ** Rebound by George Bayntun. ** Polished, full blue morocco with double gilt rules on front and rear boards. Light to moderate shelf wear. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments with double gilt rules as well as elaborate and detailed design. Red morocco label with bright gilt title. Spine head and tail as well as corners sharp. Gilt foredges. Elaborate dentelles with marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown as well as embossed stamp on front fly; otherwise no ownership markings. George Bayntun’s bookplate describing how the book was bound and how to care for the book neatly applied to front endpaper. Text block crisp and clean, virtually new internally. Overall, a large, sharp copy of a scarce edition published the same year World War II started.
About the binder: George Bayntun was born and lived in Bath, Somerset, England where he served a book-binding apprenticeship before starting his own book-binding business in Northumberland Place in 1894. He took on a number of London binders in order to raise the standard of craftsmanship in his own bindery and soon afterwards moved the business into larger premises on Walcot Street in Bath. Bayntun adhered to traditional book binding techniques and built a strong relationship with many American dealers. His last years were crowned by the patronage of Queen Mary, who spent the World War II years near Bath. She granted Bayntun’s firm the royal appointment of Bookseller to Her Majesty in 1950.
Price: $175
Shipping: FREE via USPS Media Mail
Inventory Number: 73010
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