NavList:

Some of this books can not be downloaded from Google, vg.
Bowditch 1920,
Lecky's "Wrinkles in Practical Navigation",
and others.
Is there any other way to get them?
regards

2012/7/12, Frank Reed <FrankReed@historicalatlas.com>:
> You can download numerous historical books related to celestial navigation
> from Google Books and also archive.org. I maintain a rather large list of
> these which you can access at the top of the main NavList message boards web
> page. Here is a direct link to that list:
> http://www.fer3.com/arc/navbooks2.html. Of them, you should grab an edition
> of "Bowditch" (The American Practical Navigator). If you have the patience
> to download a few, I would recommend the editions from 1837, 1888, 1920, and
> of course the most recent from 2002. Another 19th century navigation
> resource, highly recommended, is Lecky's "Wrinkles in Practical Navigation".
> And finally for something historical but more recent you may want to find a
> copy of Mixter's "Primer of Navigation" from the 1940s. Since it's more
> recent, it's not available online, but it's not hard to find on the used
> book market at a reasonable price via amazon.com or abebooks.com (a separate
> visit to the latter may be redundant).
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