Leybourn, William; Manley, Thomas Catalogue No.: d3616
Publisher: | London.: Printed by E Flesher for George Sawbridge. | Edition: | Third Edition; Published Date: 1674; First Published: 1657 | Illustrations: | 5 b/w plates + 84 b/w vignettes. | Dimensions: | 295 x 195 mm (12 x 8 inches) - [xviii], 429pp + plates. | Appearance: | Brown hardback leather cover. | Condition: | G: in good condition. Original 17th century binding with hinges restored and strengthened. New eps. |
Contents listed at front: 1: Geometrical definitions 2: Description of Instruments 3: Trigonometrie [Trigonometry]4: Part 1: Application and use of instruments; part 2: Measuration and plotting of roads, highways street and lanes, and of the taking of the Ground-plot of cities towns and hamlets 5: Measuring 6: Dialling; 7: Legal part of Surveying. The pagination is faulted, jumping from pages 107 to 183 - though the book is complete. William Leybourn was a printer before working as a land and quantity surveyor. He was one of the surveyors of London after the great fire of 1666 where he was associated with Robert Hooke. His book was one of the standard treatises on surveying throughout the second half of the 17th. and beginning of the 18th. century
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