A TREATISE ON PRACTICAL MENSURATION IN EIGHT PARTS
by A. Nesbit
Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1830
Good condition. 5th Edition. Containing the most approved Methods of drawing Geometrical Figures; Mensuration of Superficies; Land Surveying; Mensuration of Solids; the Use of the Carpenter's Rule; Timber Measure, in which is shewn the Mehod of measuring and valuing standing Timber; Artificer's Works, illustrated by the Dimensions and Contents of a House; Mensuration of Haystacks, Drains, Canals, Marlpits, Ponds, Mill-dams, Embankments, Quarries, Coal-heaps, and Clay-heaps; Conic Sections and their Solids; the most useful Problems in Gauging, according to the New Imperial Measures; and a Dictionary of the Terms used in Architecture. Full brown leather binding. B/w illustrations. xiv and 448 pages.
Name in ink to front endpaper (contemporary). Boards rubbed and worn at edges. Joints starting to crack. Text block browned. A few corner creases to contents. Some age browning to contents.
Stock no. 556975
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