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.
Contributors: Poupard, James, engraver.
Edition: The fourth edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 19026.
Publisher: Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street between Second and Third-Streets.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Surveying.; Surveying -- Tables, etc.
Notes: Edition statement transposed; precedes "By Robert Gibson ..." on title page.

Signatures: [A]þ́ B-2Mþ́; [A]℗ø B-Z℗ø (Z2 verso blank)

Plates engraved by James Poupard.

"Tables of difference of latitude and departure ..."--[1], 90, [1] p. at end, with separate title page. Odd numbered pages printed on versos. Attributed to John Robertson.

Evans 19026.

Rink, E.  Technical Americana, 2371.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19026)