Geometrical and graphical essays, . containing a general description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling and perspective; with many new practical problems, ... By the late George Adams, ...
George Adams (1750 - 1795)
Category
Books
Date
1813
Materials
Paper and bookcloth
Measurements
230 x 146 mm; 46 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
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Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire
NT 3055567
Summary
Geometrical and graphical essays containing a general description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, leveling and perspective; with many new practical problems by George Adams.
Bibliographic description
xii,534;16p., plates . ill.. . 8vo.. Imperfect: lacking all plates except frontispiece. With 2 sheets of MS notes on the pentagraph loose inside. Title in MS on spine of wrapper: Adams's Graphical Essays. / Vol. 1st.. Provenance: Signature on front cover: Wm. Hy. Wilson / Pilsley / 1840.. Binding: Green cloth, with brown-paper wrapper.
Provenance
Books assumed to have been acquired in the 1990s.
Makers and roles
George Adams (1750 - 1795) William Jones (1763-1831)