A treatise of practical surveying; which is demonstrated from its first principles. Wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art, is fully considered and explained. Particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the areas of right-lined figures arithmetically, or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of. The whole illustrated with copper-plates. By Robert Gibson, teacher of the mathematics. With alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors.

  • Gibson, Robert, -1761?.
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MDCCLXXXIX [i.e., 1790]
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Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, MDCCLXXXIX [i.e., 1790]

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viii, 272, [1], 90, [1] p., 12folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 80.

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The fifth edition.

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ESTC W28179
Evans, 21856
Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2373
Sabin, 27321

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Microfiche. Woodbridge, Ct. Research Publications International, 1994. 5 microfiches ; 11 x 15 cm. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America ; fiches 13,249-13,253)_7s1994 ctu b
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