A Text Book of Geometrical Drawing, For The Use of Mechanics And Schools In Which The Definitions And Rules Of Geometry Are Familiarly Explained, The Practical Problems Are Arranged From The Most Simple To the more Complex, And In Their Description Technicalities Are Avoid As Much As Possible
by Minifie, William
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New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1869. Hardcover. Orig. brown publisher's cloth. Near fine. 162 pages 27 x 17.5 cm. Fifty-six steel engraved plates. A monumentally popular manual and the author's first work which went through countless editions. This edition with additional material -- "An Introduction to Isometrical Drawing, And An Essay On Linear Perspective And Shadows." The author, an architect and teacher was a professor of Drawing at the Maryland Institute. HITCHCOCK 788, for the Seventh edition, this edition not noted. Tight copy, bright and clean text.
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- Title
- A Text Book of Geometrical Drawing, For The Use of Mechanics And Schools In Which The Definitions And Rules Of Geometry Are Familiarly Explained, The Practical Problems Are Arranged From The Most Simple To the more Complex, And In Their Description Technicalities Are Avoid As Much As Possible
- Author
- Minifie, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. brown publisher's cloth. Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- D. Van Nostrand
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1869
- Keywords
- American Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; American Art; Design; Drawing;
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