Navigation and Nautical Astronomy — U.S. Naval Institute | Vintage Maritime Hardcover – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
Navigation and Nautical Astronomy — U.S. Naval Institute | Vintage Maritime Hardcover – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
Navigation and Nautical Astronomy — U.S. Naval Institute | Vintage Maritime Hardcover – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
Navigation and Nautical Astronomy — U.S. Naval Institute | Vintage Maritime Hardcover – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
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Navigation and Nautical Astronomy — U.S. Naval Institute | Vintage Maritime Hardcover

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Description

Author: U.S. Naval Institute
Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co., New York
Format: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+ — clean, sound cloth binding with light, age-appropriate wear; interior pages unmarked and highly usable. Includes a loose vintage sheet with handwritten navigational calculations, likely contemporary to the book’s period of use.

Description

Navigation and Nautical Astronomy is a classic mid-20th-century reference from a time when navigation depended on mathematics, observation, and the night sky rather than electronics.

Written for serious mariners, the book explains traditional celestial navigation—using sun, stars, and planets—along with the calculations that made accurate travel possible at sea. Today, it remains both intellectually rich and quietly compelling, even when read outside its original professional context.

This copy includes a separate loose sheet with handwritten navigational calculations, a small but evocative trace of real-world use. It does not affect the text itself and may be of interest to readers who appreciate books as working tools with lived histories.

Well suited for:

  • readers interested in maritime and naval history

  • writers and researchers working in historical fiction

  • those drawn to pre-digital science, craftsmanship, and analog knowledge

A strong, thoughtfully preserved volume that stands on its own as both reference and artifact.