Barter Books : Leybourn, William : The Compleat [Complete] Surveyor: Containing the Whole Art of Surveying Land by the Plain Table, Theodolite, Circumferentor, Peractor, and Other Instruments...In VII Books

The Compleat [Complete] Surveyor: Containing the Whole Art of Surveying Land by the Plain Table, Theodolite, Circumferentor, Peractor, and Other Instruments...In VII Books

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Leybourn, William

Catalogue No.: j8330

Publisher:	London.: Printed by E. Flesher for George Sawbridge, at the Sign of the Bible upon Ludgate-Hill
Edition:	Fourth Edition; Published Date: 1679; First Published: 1657
Illustrations:	Illustrated with frontis engraving; six plates (five folding); numerous illustrations within the text
Dimensions:	280 x 190 mm (11 x 7 inches) - [17pp], 438pp.
Appearance:	Brown hardback half-leather cover on marbled boards
Condition:	G: in good condition. Modern rebind with new endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Prelim advertising leaf trimmed with a little loss of a couple of letters. Sm. marginal tear to pp 395-6 with no loss to text.

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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The Compleat [Complete] Surveyor: Containing the Whole Art of Surveying Land by the Plain Table, Theodolite, Circumferentor, Peractor, and Other Instruments...In VII Books

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