A sure guide to the practical surveyor, in two parts. The first, shewing how to plot all manner of grounds, whether small inclosures, champain-ground, wood-lands, mountains, and dales, by the semicircle, plain table, and chain. As also, how to find the area, or content thereof, with the manner of protracting, reducing, and dividing the same; and also how to inclose a mannor lying in a common field, with the drawing of a perfect draught or map thereof, and how to deck and beautifie the same. And likewise how to convey water from any spring-head, to any appointed place. The second, shewing how to take the ground-plot of any city or corporation: as also the mensuration of roads, highways, and rivers, with the manner of making a map of any county or kingdom. The like never before extant. By John Holwell, philomath

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  • A sure guide to the practical surveyor, in two parts. The first, shewing how to plot all manner of grounds, whether small inclosures, champain-ground, wood-lands, mountains, and dales, by the semicircle, plain table, and chain. As also, how to find the area, or content thereof, with the manner of protracting, reducing, and dividing the same; and also how to inclose a mannor lying in a common field, with the drawing of a perfect draught or map thereof, and how to deck and beautifie the same. And likewise how to convey water from any spring-head, to any appointed place. The second, shewing how to take the ground-plot of any city or corporation: as also the mensuration of roads, highways, and rivers, with the manner of making a map of any county or kingdom. The like never before extant. By John Holwell, philomath
  • Sure guide to the practical surveyor. The second part; Table for the finding the longitude and latitude of places; Logarithmetical canon of sines and tangents to every degree and five minutes of the quadrant; Table of logarithm numbers, from one to a thousand
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Imprint
London: printed by W. Godbid, for Christopher Hussey, at the Flower de Luce in Little-Britain, 1678.
Publication year
1678
ESTC No.
R29486
Grub Street ID
112461
Description
[12], 273, 242-255, 280-297, 290-292 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : diagrams, maps, tables ; 8°.
Note
"A sure guide to the practical surveyor. The second part." has separate dated title page on leaf M7r; pagination and register are continuous

"A table for the finding the longitude and latitude of places.", "A logarithmetical canon of sines and tangents to every degree and five minutes of the quadrant", and "A table of logarithm numbers, from one to a thousand:" each have a divisional title page on leaves S3r, T3r, and V7r, respectively; text and register are continuous

Text and register are continuous despite pagination

Signatures: A]6] B-V]8] X]2.
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Signatures from DFo