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Legare Street Press, 2021-09-10. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Legare Street Press. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Baltimore: F. Lucas Jun. And Joseph Cushing [Printed By J. Robinson], 1816. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Good. 320 pp. All preliminary pages removed, book begins with title page. Advertisement describing the book, dated 1816 in Baltimore, after title page. Signature of Saml Browne with place "Bellforde, Pal" [?"] beneath, written around title on title page. On verso of final blank is written 'D. C. Yate Bought of Saml Browne June 3, 1845", and on p.247 is handwritten "D. C. Yate book". Many marginal computations, also the problems in the book have largely been filled in.Bound in probably original full leather, morocco spine label with gilt lettering "Gibson's Surveying". Bound with"Mathrmatical Tables", worn with loss to small part of one page, and ending on 148 at the sines, tangents and secants for 47 degrees.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Legare Street Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

hansebooks, 2019. Paperback. New. 420 pages. 8.50x6.02x1.06 inches.

Full Calf Binding. Both volumes bound as one. Leather worn and scuffed. Missing top 1/2 inch of spine. No title on spine. Corners bumped and worn. Title page is creased and has light writing. Light writing to rear endpaper. First 20 pages has some water damage to top and right side edge. Major foxing throughout. Binding secure.

Philadelphia: For Joseph Cruikshank, 1796. Octavo. (title con't) for determining the areas of right-lined figures, arithmetically or by calculations, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of. 7th edition, updated, eliminating parts being of little use to the American surveyor also, there are alterations and tables have also been incorporated into this edition. ` viii, 1-288pp, (2 title pages dated 1796).1-90pp., 1-60pp, illustrated with 13 folding plates showing diagrams. From the library of Mr. Joseph Hart Larwill who was appointed in 1804 by the United States Land office, under management of Col. John Beyer, with assistants, to survey by sections the lands of Wayne, Stark, and Columbiana counties. He later became first lieutenant of artillery in the U. S. Army. In 1812 he took part in the British and Indian War and drew the original map of Fort Meigs within six weeks of its siege. He was also held prisoner of war for several weeks. Mr. Larwill served as senator from Wayne and Holmes… Read More

Dublin: Richard Fitzsimons, 1777. Handsomely rebound in golden marbled boards, cloth spine, paper spine label, all Fine. Book is Very Good, 319 pgs., lacking the 8 pgs of ads at rear and lacking plate IV of the 12 plates at rear. Title page with paper loss at top and bottom edges and 2 holes(see pictures). Contents clean and unmarked, pages browned and with some stains, overall quite legible. . Fourth Edition. Marbled Boards. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.

William A. Davis & Co. for Gaine & Ten Eyck, T. Allen, S. Campbell, E. Duykinck & Co., N. Judah, T. & J. Swords, B. Gomez, New York, M. Carey, Philadelphia, and C.R. & G. Webster, Albany, 1798-01-01. 8th. Hardcover. Good. Contemporary calf binding. Cover wear. Binding solid. 8vo. Foxing. vii, [8]-452 p., 13 engraved plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm. Collated. Early American imprint. "Gibsons Surveying was a dominant American text for a half century, and the standard against which others were compared. It appeared on the American scene when there was a need for what it offered, particularly in regard to calculating land areas from metes and bounds surveys," (P.O.B.) Evans 33795; Sabin 27321; Rink 2388. <br><br> Stephen C. Powers' book, 1813. Dunham, Mass. (Powers was later in Bedford, where he married Charlotte Belden.)