A treatise upon the dendrometer : a New-Invented Instrument for The more certain and ready Measurement of Standing Timber, by Inspection only: for Facilitating the practical Operations of Engineering, Land-Surveying, Levelling, Mineing, &c. And for Performing mechanically the various Cases of Plane Trigonometry, by a short and familiar Process, without Calculation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whittell, Thomas.

Contributor:

Duncombe, John.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dendrometers--Early works to 1800.

Dendrometers.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages,15 pages, 2 unnumbered pages,*12-*16,17-86 pages,plate : illustrations ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the patentees: and sold by F. Newbery, in Ludgate-Street; J. Bennett, instrument-maker to their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Glocester and Duke of Cumberland, in Crown-Court, Soho; B. Cole, instrument-maker, in Fleet-Street; and T. Whittell, in Pater-Noster-Row. By whom subscriptions are received, [1768?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

At head of title: 'By the King's patent'.

Issued with 'Tables of solid measure, for finding, by inspection, the quantity of timber in any tree, .. ' which is dated 1768.

As both p.78 and p.86 have the catch-word 'Tables', the appendix appears to have been added later.

The title page is followed by a dedication leaf, a preface leaf, and a leaf with the 'Terms of subscriptions.'.

With the monogram of Whittell and Duncombe on titlepage.

Dedication signed: Thomas Whittell, John Duncombe.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Roscoe, A623

English Short Title Catalog, T3134.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.