Memoir of the North & South Atlantic Ocean, Containing Sailing Directions for Navigating the Coasts of Spain and Portugal… Together with the East Coasts of North and South America.

8vo, slate blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind, illustrated with frontispiece and folding charts, viii, 21, 429, [3], 24 pp.Wear to spine ends, spine faded, small splits to joints, hinges cracked, copious nautical notes to endpapers, slight aging, but text and charts are generally clean and unworn; about very good. This is rare first edition of what is known as "The Atlantic Navigator", which includes detailed sailing instructions for the North and South Atlantic. Includes ten folding charts, and much of the text is from various captains and navigators familiar the routes contained in this work. The first numbered section of 21 pages is an 1847 supplement, and the catalogue at the rear is dated 1851. Sabin noting (2300) only an 1854 fourth edition.