Vsaige et description de l'holometre
Subtitle: povr scavoir mesvrer tovtes choses qui sont soubs l'estandüe de l'oeil, tant en longueur & largeur, qu'en hauteur & profondité
By: inuenté par Abel Foullon ...
Contributors: Cousin, Jean, approximately 1490-1560?, ill; Maignan, Jean, active 16th century, ill; Cousin, Jean, approximately 1490-1560?, illustrator; Maignan, Jean, active 16th century , illustrator
Publisher: A. Foullon
Published: 1555
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Surveying; Instruments; Early works to 1800; Map drawing; Geometry
Other titles: Usaige et description de l'holometre.
Notes: Signatures: A-I⁴ (I4 blank).

"Necesaire a ceus qui veullent promptement, & sans aucune subiection d'arithmetique, sçavoir la distance des places, arpanter terre, & faire cartes topographiques".

Ill. ascribed to Jean Cousin the elder. Cf. Brunet.

The preface acknowledges the assistance of Jean Maignan in the "demonstrations" (i.e. diagrams).

Printing ascribed in Brunet to Michel de Vascosan, probably wrongly; cf. Renouard. The work was reissued in 1561 and 1567 with a Pierre Beguin imprint.

Title normalized: Usage et description de l'holometre.

The privilege includes a patent for lettres criblées.

Brunet Supp., I, 515

Renouard, P. Imprimeurs III, 401