Manuscript on paper on mine surveying, with 12 large & fine folding manuscript plates, heightened in grey, blue, pink, & yellow wash

by Clausthal: Mine Surveying

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40 leaves the final blank . Small folio 332 x 210 mm. , orig. paste-paper boards spine & extremities somewhat worn , uncut. Clausthal?: ca. 1815 . A fine and legible manuscript instructional manual on techniques and problems of mine surveying. The text is divided into five chapters: “Von der Vorbereitung zum Markscheiden” “On preparations for measuring the area in which mining may be carried out” , “Von Bennenung der Gänge und

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