Arithmetick and measurement, improv'd by examples and plain demonstrations: wherein are laid down the different customary perches, and other measures, used in the several Parts of Great-Britain and Ireland. Suitable to all Artists; But more especially those who are employed in Building, Gardening, Surveying Land, &c. To which is added, The Use of an Instrument call'd a Tangent Rule, for the taking any given Distance within a Quarter of a Mile. Revised, corrected, and improved, by William Davidson, Architect and Land Surveyor.

  • Halfpenny, William, -1755.
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[1779?]
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London : printed for Alexander Hogg, Pater-Noster Row, [1779?]

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[3],vi-vii,[1],164p.,plate : ill. ; 80.

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ESTC T100746

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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