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A TREATISE ON LAND-SURVEYING: COMPRISING THE THEORY DEVELOPED FROM FIVE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES; AND THE PRACTICE WITH THE CHAIN ALONE, THE COMPASS, THE TRANSIT, THE THEODOLITE, THE PLANE TABLE, & c. ILLUSTRATED BY FOUR HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS AND A MAGNETIC CHART
by Gillespie, W.M
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- Hardcover
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1874. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Quarto. Quarter-leather over black textured cloth. Moderate rubbing to extremities, fraying to top and bottom of spine, and some loss of leather along joints. Solidly bound. 424 pages, plus 84 pp. of "Traverse Tables: Or, Latitudes and Departures of Courses, Calculated to Three Decimal Places: for Each Quarter Degree of Bearing.
Chapters Part I: General Principles and Fundamental Methods I) Definitions and Methods; 2) Making The Measurements; 3) Drawing the Map; 4) Calculating the Content. 2. NOTE: The "Magnetic Chart" is a fold out chart illustrating "Lines of Equal Magnetic Declination for the Year 1850, first published in 1856.
Chapters Part I: General Principles and Fundamental Methods I) Definitions and Methods; 2) Making The Measurements; 3) Drawing the Map; 4) Calculating the Content. 2. NOTE: The "Magnetic Chart" is a fold out chart illustrating "Lines of Equal Magnetic Declination for the Year 1850, first published in 1856.
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- Title
- A TREATISE ON LAND-SURVEYING: COMPRISING THE THEORY DEVELOPED FROM FIVE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES; AND THE PRACTICE WITH THE CHAIN ALONE, THE COMPASS, THE TRANSIT, THE THEODOLITE, THE PLANE TABLE, & c. ILLUSTRATED BY FOUR HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS AND A MAGNETIC CHART
- Author
- Gillespie, W.M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Eighth Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1874
- Keywords
- Land Surveying,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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