A treatise of practical surveying: which is demonstrated from its first principles. Wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art, is fully considered and explained. Particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the areas of right-lined figures, arithmetically or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of ... / By Robert Gibson ... With alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Robert, -1761?

Contributor:

Crukshank, Joseph, 1746?-1836, printer.

Poupard, James, engraver.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surveying--Early works to 1800.

Surveying.

Physical Description:

viii, 288 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 90 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 60 pages, 13 leaves of folded plates : illustrations, charts, plans ; 21 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The seventh edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed for Joseph Crukshank, no. 87, High-street, 1796.

Notes:

The tables ([1], 90) have special t.p.: Tables of difference of latitude and departure: constructed to every quarter of a degree of the quadrant, and continued from one, to the distance of one hundred miles or chains. Philadelphia: Printed for, and sold by, Joseph Crukshank, no. 87, High-street, between Second and Third-streets, MDCCXCVI.

"A table of logarithms, from 1 to 10,000": [4], 60 p. at end.

Edition statement precedes statement of responsibility.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: title page repeated (5th count); not included in pagination count.

Cited in:

Bristol B9556

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2383

Shipton & Mooney 47790

OCLC:

9478557