This Boke Sheweth The Maner Of Measurynge Of All Maner Of Lande As Well Of Woodlande As Of Lande In The

by Richard Benese

$60,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London : Prynted in Southwarke in Saynt Thomas hospitall, by me James Nicolson, 1537 . First edition of “the first English textbook on geometrical land-measurement and surveying” Buisseret, p. 39 , an outstanding copy in its original binding, and extremely rare thus. Benese’s Maner of Measurynge All Maner of Lande marks an epoch, the widespread idea of land as private property. “If there is a

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