The compleat surveyor: . containing the whole art of surveying of land, by plain table, circumferentor, theodolite, peractor, and other instruments. With divers kinds of mesurations, and matters pertinent to a work of this nature. The third edition, corrected and enlarged, with the addition of three entire books not before printed. The whole treatise being comprised in VII. books. An account of the particulars in each of them contained, is given in the preface to the reader. By William Leybourn philomathematicus.
William Leybourn (1626-1716)
Category
Books
Date
1674
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3092832
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 107, [1], 183-397, [5], 399-429, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates (5 fold.) . ill.., port.. . fol... Provenance: Large armorial bookplate: The Right Honble. John Lord Hervey Created Baron of Ickworth ... 1702. [i.e. John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751)].. Binding: Seventeenth century blind tooled mottled calf binding; rebacked.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
William Leybourn (1626-1716) Thomas Manley (1628-1690)