The Compleat [Complete] Surveyor: Containing the Whole Art of Surveying Land by the Plain Table, Theodolite, Circumferentor, Peractor, and Other Instruments
by Leybourn, William
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
Leybourn for Sawbridge, 1657. later edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Second Edition 1657 Bound in later half calf, marbled boards and extra endpapers. spine blind tooled with raised bands Frontis with partial contemporary hand colouring (one plate also part coloured) (xii), 1-92, 177-244, 247-308 (Pagination erratic but complete with text in four books). Illustrated throughout, much expanded from the 1st edition. Several contemporary notes and initials to preliminaries and title.Provenance R H Johnston’s bookplate (modern)
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- Title
- The Compleat [Complete] Surveyor: Containing the Whole Art of Surveying Land by the Plain Table, Theodolite, Circumferentor, Peractor, and Other Instruments
- Author
- Leybourn, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- later edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Leybourn for Sawbridge, 1657
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