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 ...
Contributors: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The sixth edition, with alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors.
Publisher: Printed by Joseph Crukshank ...
Published: 1792
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Surveying -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has inscription: Joshua Sharp, his book.
Evans 24357
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2O⁴.
Evans' collation includes the tables (Evans 27301) with which this work is often found.
 The 13 folded leaves of plates follow the Mathematical tables in LC copy.
With: Mathematical tables. Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank ..., 1794. Probably bound subsequent to publication.