Mellificium mensionis, or, The marrow of measuring
Subtitle: wherein a new and ready way is shewn how to measure glazing, painting, plaistering, masonry, joyners, carpenters, and bricklayers works : as also the measuring of land, and all other superficies, and solids, by vulgar arithmetick, without reducing the integers into the least denomination, giving the content of any superficie or solid, consisting of feet, inches, and parts of inches, in a fourth part of the time and labour required by the usual way in vulgar arithmetick : together with some choice principles and problems of geometry conducing thereto : to which is added, an appendix, left under the author's own hand, the contents of which, see in the next page : illustrated with copper cuts the like not heretofore published ...
By: by Venterus  Mandey
Contributors: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679; Tebb, Thomas; King, Thomas; Illidge, Samuel; White, Robert, 1645-1703
Edition: The 4th ed., with additions.
Publisher: Printed for Tho. Tebb ... Sam. Illidge ... and Tho. King ...
Published: 1727
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
Subjects: Geometry; Early works to 1800; Measurement
Other titles: Mellificium mensionis; Marrow of measuring
Notes: Signatures: A-2I⁸.

Each book, except the 1st, has special title page.

Includes frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Robert White.

Frontispiece includes in pagination and signature count.

Head- and tail-pieces; decorative initials.

Books II & III written originally in Latin by Thomas Hobbes and translated by Mandey.

Advertisements: p. [1] at end.

Bound in sprinkled calf; spine rebacked; gilt label with brief title on spine; edges sprinkled red.
Table of contents: title: First Book. The rudiments of geometry; title: Second Book. A garden of geometrical roses; title: Third Book. Some principles and problems in geometry, formerly thought desparate; title: Fourth Book. Measuring of glazing, painting, plaistering ...; title: Fifth Book. Measuring of superficial planes by vulgar arithmetick ...; title: Sixth Book. Measuring of land; title: The appendix treating in the first place of the measuring of chimneys reformed.