A treatise upon the dendrometer, a new-invented instrument for the more certain and ready measurement of standing timber, by inspection only: for facilitating the practical operations of engineering, land-surveying, levelling, mineing, &c. And for performing mechanically the various cases of plane trigonometry, by a short and familiar process, without calculation
Contributors: Duncombe, John.
Series: Eighteenth century -- reel 1328, no. 12.
Publisher: printed for the patentees: and sold by F. Newbery; J. Bennett, instrument-maker to their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Glocester and Duke of Cumberland; B. Cole, instrument-maker; and T. Whittell. By whom subscriptions are received
Published: 1768
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 1617
Notes: At head of title: 'By the King's patent'.

Issued with 'Tables of solid measure, for finding, by inspection, the quantity of timber in any tree, .. ' which is dated 1768.

As both p.78 and p.86 have the catch-word 'Tables', the appendix appears to have been added later.

The title page is followed by a dedication leaf, a preface leaf, and a leaf with the 'Terms of subscriptions.'.

With the monogram of Whittell and Duncombe on titlepage.

Dedication signed: Thomas Whittell, John Duncombe.

Roscoe A623

Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1985. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1328, no. 12).