A treatise of practical surveying
Subtitle: which is demonstrated from its first principles. Wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art, is fully considered and explained. Particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the areas of right-lined figures arithmetically, or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of. : The whole illustrated with copper-plates
By: By Robert Gibson, teacher of the mathematics. ; With alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors
Edition: The fifth edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 21856
Publisher: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets.
Published: 1790
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Surveying; Tables
Notes: Edition statement transposed; precedes "By Robert Gibson ..." on title page.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2M⁴; [A]² B-Z² (Z2 verso blank).

Plates engraved by James Poupard.

"Tables of difference of latitude and departure ..."--[1], 90, [1] p.; has separate title page, with publication date of 1790. Odd numbered pages printed on versos. Attributed to John Robertson.

Evans 21856

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2373