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 & explained, particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the arreas [sic] 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
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William A. Davis & Co. for Gaine & Ten Eyck, T. Allen, S. Campbell, E. Duykinck & Co., N. Judah, T. & J. Swords, B. Gomez, New York, M. Carey, Philadelphia, and C.R. & G. Webster, Albany, 1798-01-01. 8th. Hardcover. Good. Contemporary calf binding. Cover wear. Binding solid. 8vo. Foxing. vii, [8]-452 p., 13 engraved plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm. Collated. Early American imprint. "Gibsons Surveying was a dominant American text for a half century, and the standard against which others were compared. It appeared on the American scene when there was a need for what it offered, particularly in regard to calculating land areas from metes and bounds surveys," (P.O.B.) Evans 33795; Sabin 27321; Rink 2388. <br><br> Stephen C. Powers' book, 1813. Dunham, Mass. (Powers was later in Bedford, where he married Charlotte Belden.)
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- 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 & explained, particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the arreas [sic] of right-lined figures arithmetically, or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of : the whole illustrated with copper-plates
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- William A. Davis & Co. for Gaine & Ten Eyck, T. Allen, S. Campbell, E. Duykinck & Co., N. Judah, T. & J. Swords,
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