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 sixth edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 24357
Publisher: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, no. 87, High-Street
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Surveying; Tables
Notes: Edition statement transposed; precedes "By Robert Gibson ..." on title page.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2O⁴; pi² [A]² B-Z² (pi1 blank, Z2 verso blank); chi1 *A-*G⁴ *H².

Plates engraved by James Poupard.

"Mathematical tables: difference of latitude and departure: logarithms, from 1 to 10,000. Artificial sines, tangents, and secants."--[5], 90, [3], 60 p.; has separate title page, with imprint date of 1794. This title includes "Tables of differences of latitude and departure ..." ([1], 90, [1] p.) with separate title page having imprint date of 1790. The Tables of differences of latitude and departure are attributed to John Robertson.

Evans 24357

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2376