A TREATISE ON PRACTICAL MENSURATION IN EIGHT PARTS
Written by A. Nesbit
Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
in 1830
- Categorised in:
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- SURVEYING
- ANTIQUARIAN
A TREATISE ON PRACTICAL MENSURATION IN EIGHT PARTS
Written by A. Nesbit.
Stock no. 556975
1830.
Hardback.
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.