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Subject: Re: Bowditch
From: Heather Power (hpower@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 17:44:58 EST
The 1995 edition of The American Practical Navigator by Bowditch is
available as a series of Adobe Acrobat Reader files at
http://164.214.12.145/pubs/.
=Ian
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> Subject: Bowditch
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>
> Bowditch for Celestial Navigation.
>
> Get an older copy of Bowditch. I have a copy of Vol I 1977
> and Vol II 1975. The new edition of Bowditch, I believe 1995,
> has a lot of the celestial stuff stripped out.
>
> In NO way pay over about maybe $15.00 a volume. $125 is outrageous.
>
> I also saw a 1966 one volume edition of Bowditch at the Book
> Baron in Fullerton for $95.00. I went down the road to
> a little store called The Book Fair in the next town over
> and got the exact same book for $15.00!
>
> The Book Baron in Anaheim has a lot of Duttons circa 1950s
> for about $7.00 to $10.00. Not a bad book either.
>
> Bowdich from about 1938 on is a very common book I have seen
> it in several used book stores for $10.00 to $25.00
>
> Also check http://www.abe.com the advanced book exchange on the net.
>
> -- Gordon
>
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