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 arreas [sic] 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 eighth edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 33795
Publisher: Printed by William A. Davis & Co. for Gaine & Ten Eyck, T. Allen, S. Campbell, E. Duykinck [i.e., Duyckinck] & Co. N. Judah, T. & J. Swords, B. Gomez, New York; M. Carey, Philadelphia, and C.R. & G. Webster, Albany.
Published: 1798
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
Subjects: Surveying; Tables
Other titles: Mathematical tables series.
Notes: Edition statement transposed; precedes "By Robert Gibson ..." on title page.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-3H⁴ 3I².

Error in paging: p. 437 misnumbered 473.

"Mathematical tables. Difference of latitude and departure. Logarithms, from 1 to 10,000. Artificial sines, tangents, and secants."--p. [297]-452.

Evans 33795

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2388