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[Kenneth Karmiole]

Wyld, Samuel

 

THE PRACTICAL SURVEYOR, or the Art of Land-Measuring MadeEasy....To Which is Added, an Appendix, Shewing How to Draw Buildings... TheFourth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged by a Careful Hand, and Illustrated withSeveral Copper-Plates.

 

London: W. Johnson. 1760. 8vo.  viii, 191, (5)pp.  With 7 folding copper-plates, including thefrontispiece.  Orig. binding of fullcalf, gilt spine with red morocco label. Lightly rubbed, but an excellent copy. With the cont. ownership signature of John Leaton.

 

$300

 

    First printed in1725, the last edition (see the ESTC) in the 18th. century was the    

    7th. in 1780.  No copy of the 3rd. and 6th. editions arerecorded in the ESTC.

    The finalrevisions begin with the 4th. edition of 1760; no changes after that.