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The Compleat [complete] Surveyor: Containing the Whole Art of Surveying Land by

The Compleat [complete] Surveyor: Containing the Whole Art of Surveying Land by the Plain Table, Theodolite, Circumferentor, Peractor, and Other Instruments...Corrected and Enlarged, with the Addition of Three Books not before Printed. 7 books in 1 Brown hardback leather cover - 1674

by Leybourn, William; Manley, Thomas

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London: Printed by E Flesher for George Sawbridge. G: in good condition. Original 17th century binding with hinges restored and strengthened. New eps. 1674. Third Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 295mm x 195mm (12" x 8"). [xviii], 429pp + plates. 5 b/w plates + 84 b/w vignettes. Contents listed at front: 1: Geometrical definitions 2: Description of Instruments 3: Trigonometrie [Trigonometry]4: Part 1: Application and use of instruments; part 2: Measuration and plotting of roads, highways street and lanes, and of the taking of the Ground-plot of cities towns and hamlets 5: Measuring 6: Dialling; 7: Legal part of Surveying. The pagination is faulted, jumping from pages 107 to 183 - though the book is complete. William Leybourn was a printer before working as a land and quantity surveyor. He was one of the surveyors of London after the great fire of 1666 where he was associated with Robert Hooke. His book was one of the standard treatises on surveying throughout the second half of the 17th. and beginning of the 18th. century. .
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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...Corrected and Enlarged, with the Addition of Three Books not before Printed. 7 books in 1
  • Author Leybourn, William; Manley, Thomas
  • Binding Brown hardback leather cover
  • Edition Third Edition
  • Condition New
  • Publisher Printed by E Flesher for George Sawbridge, London
  • Date 1674
  • Bookseller's Inventory # d3616

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