The art of practical measuring by the sliding rule
Subtitle: showing how to measure round, square, or other timber, stone, board, glass, paving, painting, wainscot : also gauging with instructions in decimals, Mr. Townley's method of the logarithms, and the use of the diagonal scale applied to Gunter's chain
By: by Henry Coggeshall, gent. ; whereto is added, in a short method, the use of Scamozzi's lines, for finding the lengths and angles of hips, rafters, &c. at any pitch, in square, bevelling or tapering frames by John Mam ; and to render the book more compleat in this edition is added A compendium of practical geometru and the principles of plain trigonometry with the application thereof by G. Thomson, A.M.
Contributors: Ham, John, active 1729-1738; Thomson, G.
Edition: The 5th ed., carefully rev.
Publisher: Printed for John Oswald ...
Published: 1732
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Measurement; Early works to 1800; Slide-rule
Other titles: Compendium of practical geometry and the principles of plain trigonometry
Notes: First ed., 1677, had title: Timber-measure by a line of some ease; 2nd ed., 1682, had title: Treatise of measures by a two-foot rule.

Compendium of practical geometry has separate t.p.

Signatures: A⁶ (±A₁) B-H⁶ I⁴ [K]² L-P⁶ Q² ( -Q₂); gathering I has vertical lines.

Errata (for Compendium only) at foot of p. [95] below advertisement.