Wyld, Samuel, The practical surveyor, or, The art of Land-measuring made easy , [approximately 1737]
- Title(s):
- The practical surveyor, or, The art of Land-measuring made easy : shewing by plain and familiar rules, how to survey any piece of land whatsoever, by the plain-table, theodolite, or circumferentor, or, by the chain only : and how to protract, cast up, reduce, and divide the same : likewise, an easy method of protracting observations made with the meridian : and how to cast up the content of any plot of land, by reducing any multangular figure to one triangle : to which is added, an appendix, shewing how to draw buildings, &c. in perspective : of levelling : and also how to measure standing timber / by Samuel Wyld.
- Additional Title(s):
Practical surveyor
Art of land-measuring made easy- Edition:
- The second edition, corrected and enlarged by a careful hand.
- Published/Created:
- London : Printed for H. Lintot, at the Cross-Keys, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, [approximately 1737]
- Physical Description:
- viii, 188, [4] pages, [7] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Holdings:
- Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12987216
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- With two final leaves of tables.
The ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall.
The work is listed in The monthly catalogue for July 1737 and in The gentleman's magazine.
"[Price Three Shillings.]"--Foot of title page.
Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, 6748
English short title catalogue, T109954
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary panelled calf. - Subject Terms:
- Surveying -- Early works to 1800.
- Form/Genre:
- Engravings -- 1737.
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