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• Coast-pilot guides

• Certain Errors in Navigation, Detected and Corrected by Edw. Wright; With Many Additions That Were Not in the Former Editions (London: J. Moxon, 1657), by Edward Wright (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Colombian Navigator: or, Sailing Directory for the American Coasts and the West-Indies (2 volumes; London: Printed for R. H. Laurie, 1823-1824), by John Purdy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sailing Directions for the Coasts, Harbours, and Islands of North America, from Cape Canso to Philadelphia: Comprehending the Coasts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Within the Bay of Fundy, Also the Coast of the United States from Passamaquody Bay to Philadelphia (London: C. Wilson, 1856), by J. W. Norie and J. S. Hobbs
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Illustrated Coast Pilot, With Sailing Directions: The Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, Including Bays and Harbors (New York: Rudder Pub. Co., c1902), by N. L. Stebbins (multiple formats at Google)
• Sailing Directions for the Principal Ports on the East Coast of the United States of America (third edition; London: Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, and sold by J.D. Potter, 1882) (page images at Google)

• Navigation aux Côtes du Brésil (in French; Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1821), by Albin-Reine Roussin
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Series of Charts, With Sailing Directions, Embracing Surveys of the Farallones, Entrance to the Bay of San Francisco, Bays of San Francisco and San Pablo..., by Cadwalader Ringgold (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• Handbook for the Guidance of Shipmasters on the Ichang-Chungking Section of the Yangtze River (Shanghai: Statistical Dept. of the Inspectorate General of Customs, 1920), by S. Cornell Plant (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thompson's Coast Pilot: For the Upper Lakes, on Both Shores from Chicago to Buffalo, Green Bay, Georgian Bay, and Lake Superior; Including the Rivers Detroit, St. Clair and Ste. Marie, with the Courses and Distances on Lake Ontario, and Other Information Relative Thereto (5th edition, 1869), by Thomas S. Thompson (page images at hhpl.on.ca)

• A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida: Containing an Account of the Natural Produce of All the Southern Part of British America, in the Three Kingdoms of Nature, Particularly the Animal and Vegetable (only volume published, with an appendix giving area sailing directions; New York: Printed for the author, 1775), by Bernard Romans, contrib. by William Brown (HTML at Evans TCP)

• A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Basil Ringrose, ed. by Derek Howse and Norman Joseph William Thrower (HTML at UC Press)

• A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Basil Ringrose, ed. by Derek Howse and Norman Joseph William Thrower (HTML at UC Press)

• Notices of the Western Coast of the United States (revised edition; Washington: Printed by Gideon and Co., 1851), by United States Coast Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Series of Charts, With Sailing Directions, Embracing Surveys of the Farallones, Entrance to the Bay of San Francisco, Bays of San Francisco and San Pablo..., by Cadwalader Ringgold (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• The American Pharos, or Light-House Guide (Washington: Thompson and Homans, 1832), by Robert Mills (multiple formats at Google)

• Navigation aux Côtes du Brésil (in French; Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1821), by Albin-Reine Roussin
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• United States Coast Pilot (current electronic edition, 9 volumes), by United States National Ocean Service (PDF files with commentary at noaa.gov)

• The Colombian Navigator: or, Sailing Directory for the American Coasts and the West-Indies (2 volumes; London: Printed for R. H. Laurie, 1823-1824), by John Purdy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida: Containing an Account of the Natural Produce of All the Southern Part of British America, in the Three Kingdoms of Nature, Particularly the Animal and Vegetable (only volume published, with an appendix giving area sailing directions; New York: Printed for the author, 1775), by Bernard Romans, contrib. by William Brown (HTML at Evans TCP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The American Practical Navigator: An Epitome of Navigation (editions of 2002, 2017, and 2019), by United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency, contrib. by Nathaniel Bowditch (PDF files at nga.mil)
• Practical Marine Navigation (Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley Press, c1945), by James A. Stowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Derrotas Desde el Puerto de Montevideo a Buenos-Aires: Por el Norte, y Sud del Banco Chico, Que Para Bien de la Humanidad y Del Comercio (in Spanish; Montevideo, Uruguay: Imp. de la Caridad, 1826), by Benito Aizpurúa (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Improved Practical Navigator: Containing All Necessary Instruction for Determining the Latitude by Various Methods, and for the Ascertaining the Longitude by Lunar Observations, in a Complete Epitome of Navigation (revised by Kirby from Bowditch's text; London: Printed for J. and J. Hardy and D. Steel, 1802), by Nathaniel Bowditch and Thomas Kirby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation, Containing All the Tables Necessary to be Used With the Nautical Almanac in Determining the Latitude, and the Longitude by Lunar Observations, and Keeping a Complete Reckoning at Sea (second edition; Newburyport, MA: Printed by E. Blunt, 1807), by Nathaniel Bowditch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ocean and Her Rulers: A Narrative of the Nations Which Have From the Earliest Ages Held Dominion Over the Sea, Comprising a Brief History of Navigation From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time (new and revised edition; London: Griffith and Farran, 1878), by Alfred Elwes, illust. by Walter W. May (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor: or, A Key to The Leading of Rigging, and to Practical Seamanship (American edition; New York: E. and G. W. Blunt, 1858), by Darcy Lever, contrib. by G. W. Blunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il Primo Viaggio Intorno al Globo di Antonio Pigafetta, e le Sue Regole sull'Arte del Navigare; Giraloamo Benzoni e la Sua Historia del Mondo Nuovo (in Italian; Rome: Auspice il Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, 1894), by Antonio Pigafetta, ed. by Andrea Da Mosto, contrib. by Marco Allegri
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Bibliography of Maritime Literature (New York: American Steamship Association, 1918), by William Mackellar Brittain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Light-House Board (Washington: GPO, 1886), by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at Google)

• The Arte of Nauigation: Wherein is Contained All the Rules, Declarations, Secretes, and Aduises, Which For Good Nauigation are Necessarie and Ought to be Knowen and Practised, and are Very Profitable for All Kind of Mariners (London: T. Dawson, 1581), by Pedro de Medina, trans. by John Frampton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Certain Errors in Navigation, Detected and Corrected by Edw. Wright; With Many Additions That Were Not in the Former Editions (London: J. Moxon, 1657), by Edward Wright (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• General and Rare Memorials Pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation Annexed to the Paradoxal Cumpas, in Playne: Now First Published, 24 Yeres After the First Invention Thereof (1577), by John Dee, contrib. by George Gemistus Plethon and Willem Canter (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Navigatio Britannica: or, A Complete System of Navigation in All Its Branches, Both With Regard to Theory and Practice (London: Printed for W. and J. Mount and T. Page, 1750), by John Barrow
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tratado del Esphera y del Arte del Marear (facsimile reprint of the 1535 Seville edition, published as v4 of Histoire de la Science Nautique Portugaise à L'Époque des Grandes Découvertes; Munich: J. B. Obernetter, 1915), by Francisco Faleiro
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Voyage of Nearchus; and The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea (Greek text with English translation and notes; Oxford: At the University Press, 1809), by Arrian, trans. by William Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

• Men Against the Sea (c1933), by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (text and illustrated HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• A Short History of Navigation (Annapolis: Weems System of Navigation, 1942), by William James Vivian Branch and E. Brook-Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sea and its Story, From Viking Ship to Submarine (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1910), ed. by Frank H. Shaw and Ernest H. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Italienischen Portolane des Mittelalters: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kartographie und Nautik (in German and Italian; Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1909), by Konrad Kretschmer
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Views on the Free Navigation of the St. Lawrence, Reported, by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at MOA)

• Navigation Tables for Mariners and Aviators (Washington: Pub. by the Hydrographic Office under the authority of the Scretary of the Navy, 1928), by Joseph Young Dreisonstok (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bowditch's Useful Tables (fourth edition; New-York: E. and G. W. Blunt, 1863), by Nathaniel Bowditch and Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minding the Helm: Marine Navigation and Piloting (1994), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Ship Collisions With Bridges: The Nature of the Accidents, Their Prevention and Mitigation (Washington: National Academy Press, 1983), by National Research Council Committee on Ship-Bridge Collisions
  • PDF at dtic.mil
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Sound-Signals (reprinted from the Annual Cyclopaedia; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1884), by Arnold Burges Johnson (multiple formats at Google)

• The Global Positioning System: A Shared National Asset (1995), by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Greater Safety at Sea, and International Tribunals for Questions of Collision: Paper Presented to the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations (New York: J. Polhemus, 1875), by David Dudley Field (page images at Gallica)

• Ocean Sciences, Technology, and the Future International Law of the Sea (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1966), by William T. Burke (PDF at Ohio State)
• Seaman's Rights in the U.S. When Involved in an Accident (in 8 languages; Miami: I. Adels, c1989), by Charles R. Lipcon (PDF with commentary at lipcon.com)
• Lecciones de Derecho Maritimo Internacional (in Spanish; Mexico: I. Cumplido, 1854), ed. by Justo Sierra O'Reilly
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Law of the Sea: Offshore Boundaries and Zones (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1967), ed. by Lewis M. Alexander (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Freedom of the Seas: The Sinking of the William P. Frye (prepared for Col. E. M. House; 1918), ed. by Sidney Edward Mezes, contrib. by Horace S. Oakley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.