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A Treatise on Surveying, Containing the Theory and Practice: to Which is Prefixed a Perspicuous System of Plane Trigonometry
by Gummere, John
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Kimber & Sharpless, 1832. Sixth edition, improved. Hardcover. John Gummere (1784-1845) was an American astronomer and one of the founders of Haverford College in Pennsylvania. The title page states "Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, and Corresponding Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia" and that the work is "Particularly adapted to the use of schools."
Tall 8vo, 152 pp, 8 folding charts. Original mottled leather boards with gilt title at red spine label (Gummere's Surveying). The book is very foxed, as with almost all copies seen, with a water crescent on early pages. Spine and corner tips a bit rubbed. Small NY bookseller label for Mahlon Day in the inside front cover.
Tall 8vo, 152 pp, 8 folding charts. Original mottled leather boards with gilt title at red spine label (Gummere's Surveying). The book is very foxed, as with almost all copies seen, with a water crescent on early pages. Spine and corner tips a bit rubbed. Small NY bookseller label for Mahlon Day in the inside front cover.
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- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12903
- Title
- A Treatise on Surveying, Containing the Theory and Practice: to Which is Prefixed a Perspicuous System of Plane Trigonometry
- Author
- Gummere, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Sixth edition, improved
- Publisher
- Kimber & Sharpless
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1832
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- Foxed
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- Gilt
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