The Compleat Surveyor Containing The Whole Art Of Surveying Of Land By The Plain Table Theodolite

by William Leybourn

$9,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Engraved frontis. port. of Leybourn and numerous woodcut diagrams & tables in the text. Title printed in red & black. 6 p.l., 84, 177-279 pp. Small folio, cont. sheep some wear & rubbing, a few unimportant stains . London: R. & W. Leybourn for E. Brewster & G. Sawbridge, 1653. First edition under this title. “Of all the seventeenth-century writers on surveying, William Leybourn probably exerted a greater influence on the practicing surveyor than

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