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Blunt MERCHANT'S SHIPMASTER'S ASSISTANT 1829

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Condition/Details: Bound in leather, this antique volume is a scarce merchant and shipman's vade mecum, compiled by Joseph Blunt (1790 - 1860), the lawyer-son of Edmund March Blunt (1770 - 1862), the pioneer publisher of nautical books and charts in Newburyport, Massachussetts. Joseph Blunt was long a leading Whig and protectionist, was one of the first members of the Republican Party, and drew up the original resolutions of the Republican State Convention at Saratoga in 1854. Mr. Blunt declined the commissionership to China offered him by President Fillmore. He was appointed district attorney not long before his death. He edited the "American Annual Register" (1827-'35), and published "Historical Sketch of the Formation of the American Confederacy" (New York, 1825); "Speeches, Reviews, and Reports" (1843). This work states on the title page that "the following subjects are particularly elucidated": 1. Ship Accounts 2. Useful Tables and Miscellaneous Information, including Moneys, Weights and Measures, tables of Cordage, and Rules for calculating Tonnage 3. Exchanges 4. Bills of Exchange 5. Factors and Factorage 6. Freight and Demurrage 7. Insurance, Averages, &c 8. Owners 9. Masters 10. Seaman and Wages 11. Consuls 12. Hospitals 13. Navy 14. Pensions 15. Crimes 16. Slave Trade 17. Fisheries 18. Ships 19. Navigation Laws 20. Pilot Laws 21. Quarantine Laws 22. Passenger Laws 23. Revenue Cutters 24. Custom-House Regulations 25. Duties 26. Drawbacks 27. Fines and Forfeitures 28. Commercial Regulations in the West Indies and South America with New Commercial Regulations, and the Tariff of 1828, as Published by Order of the Secretary of the Treasury. The work contains many charts and tables. The volume shows external age/wear, with detached front board, and is solidly bound with age-toned pages. The book measures approximately 5.25" x 9" and contains 464 pages. Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $4.50

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