[Rarebooks] FS: Gibson. Treatise on Practical Surveying

[Kaaterskill Books]

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Gibson, William. A TREATISE ON 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 
ARREAS [SIC] OF RIGHT-LINED FIGURES ARITHMETICALLY, OR BY 
CALCULATION, AS WELL AS THE GEOMETRICAL ONES HERETOFORE TREATED OF : 
THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPER-PLATES....WITH ALTERATIONS AND 
AMENDMENTS ADAPTED TO THE USE OF AMERICAN SURVEYORS. New York: 
Printed by William A. Davis & Co. for Gaine & Ten Eyck, T. Allen, S. 
Campbell, E. Duykinck & Co., N. Judah, T. & J. Swords, B. Gomez, New 
York, M. Carey, Philadelphia, and C.R. & G. Webster, Albany, 1798. 
vii, [2], 10 -452 pp., 13 folded leaves of plates. 8vo. Brown calf 
with red morocco spine label, gilt title. Eighth edition. Error in 
paging: p. 437 misnumbered 473. The first four editions of Robert 
Gibson's Surveying were published in Dublin, Ireland beginning in 
1739. The first American edition was published in 1785 and is shown 
as a fourth edition. "Gibson's Surveying was a dominant American text 
for a half century, and the standard against which others were 
compared. It appeared on the American scene when there was a need for 
what it offered, particularly in regard to calculating land areas 
from metes and bounds surveys," (P.O.B.). A small sheet of penciled 
survey calculations laid in loose. Interesting contemporary vellum 
protective covers. All plates present. Boards are detached but fitted 
into 19th c. sewn vellum wrappers; spine attached, free front 
endpaper missing, stain to interior edge of title leaf, foxing 
throughout, contemporary notations on blank leaves at 298, 393, and 
rear free endpaper, charts browned and frayed at the margins, not 
affecting images, one chart with small repair to inner margin, not 
affecting images. Evans: 33795. Sabin: see 27321; Rink 2388. [24135] 
$400.00

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