A treatise of practical surveying which is demonstrated from its first principles
Subtitle: wherein everything 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 ; with alterations and amendments adapted to the use of American surveyors
Contributors: Gibson, Robert
Edition: 9th ed.
Publisher: Joseph Crukshank
Published: 1808
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Surveying; Early works to 1800; Tables
Notes: On spine: Surveying.

Tables of difference of latitude and departure: constructed to every quarter of a degree of the quadrant, and continued from one, to the distance of one hundred miles or chains:--of logarithms, from 1 to 10,000:--and of artificial sines, tangents, and secants.  Carefully rev. and corr.  Philadelphia, J. & J. Crukshank, 1803: 152 p. at end has special t.p.

Imperfect copy: t. p. and plates 1, 3, and 13 wanting; title from Nat. Union Cat.