A treatise of practical surveying : which is demonstrated from its first principles. Wherein every thing 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 ...

Author: Gibson, Robert
Published: Philadelphia : Printed for Joseph Crukshank, no.87, Highstreet, 1796.
Edition: The 7th ed. / By Robert Gibson ... With alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors.
Physical Description: viii,288 pages, 1 leaf,[2]-90 pages,1 leaf,60 pages including tables : XIII folded plate ; 21 cm

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Surveying—Early works to 1800

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The tables (1 l.,[2]-90p.) have special t.-p.: 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 Philadelphia : Printed for, and sold by, Joseph Crukshank, no.87, High-street, between Second and Third-streets. MDCCXCVI.
"A table of logarithms, from 1 to 10,000": 1 l.,56p., at end.

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