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 : the whole illustrated with copper-plates by Robert Gibson

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surveying--Early works to 1800.

Surveying.

Physical Description:

viii, 288 p., 13 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo)

Edition:

The sixth edition, with alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Crukshank ..., 1792.

Notes:

Evans' collation includes the tables (Evans 27301) with which this work is often, as here, found.

Local Notes:

HSP copy on deposit in the Library Company of Philadelphia.

Cited in:

Evans 24357

OCLC:

11813086

Bound With:

With: Mathematical tables. Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank ..., 1794.