Practical geometry
Subtitle: applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening and mensuration : calculated for the service of gentlemen as well as artisans and set to view in four parts ... : to which is annexed an account of the clandestine practice now generally obtaining in mensuration, and particularly the damage sustained in selling timber by measure : the whole exemplifi'd with above 60 folio copper plates, by the best hands
By: by Batty Langley
Publisher: Printed for W. and J. Innys, J. Osborn and T. Longman, B. Lintot, J. Woodman and D. Lyons, C. King, E. Symon, and W. Bell
Published: 1726
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic reproduction] :
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Descriptive Geometry; Early works to 1800; Mechanical drawing
Notes: Headpieces, endpieces, initials.

Plates numbered irregulary.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. Preliminaries or [i.e. of] the foundations of the several arts above-mentioned; title: II. The various orders of architecture, laid down and improved from the best masters; with the ways of making draughts of buildings, gardens, groves, fountains, &c., the laying down of maps, cities, lordships, farms, &c.; title: III. The doctrine and rules of mensuration of all kinds, illustrated by select examples in building, gardening, timber, &c.; title: IV. Exact tables of mensuration, shewing, by inspection, the superficial and solid contents of all kinds of bodies, without the fatigue of arithmetical computation.