A Treatise on Surveying, Containing the Theory and Practice: To Which is Prefixed a Perspicuous System of Plane Trigonometry.

Gummere, John

Verlag: John Richardson, 1817

Beschreibung

A Treatise on Surveying, Containing the Theory and Practice: To Which is Prefixed a Perspicuous System of Plane Trigonometry. By John Gummere, Second Edition, Improved, Published by John Richardson, Philadelphia, 1817, 206 pp, Mathematical Tables: Difference of Latitude and Departure: Logarithms From 1 to 10,000. Artificial Sines, Tangents and Secants, 1817, 152 pp, seven plates, full leather, 9 x 5.5 , 8vo. In fair condition. Moderate wear to extremities with scuffing to surface of leather, edges and corners. Spine abraded with creasing and light red rot to joints. Old hand ownership of William Seller on pastedown along with the bookplate of Maurice Robert Des Marais on front end pastedown. Des Marais was a longtime faculty member in the Department of Architecture at Penn State College of Arts and Architecture and a corporate member of the American Institute of Architects. Text is toned with scattered foxing and areas of dampness staining. First plate in rear is missing fold. Other folding plates are in good working order. Free of known marginalia. Binding remains intact. Please see photos. John Gummere (1784-1845) though self-taught was one of the most eminent mathematicians of during the late 18th and early 19th century in the United States. He was a keen astronomer and one of the founders of Haverford College in Pennsylvania. His surveying Treatise was an influential book for civil engineering. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers COLA1817ABED

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Titel: A Treatise on Surveying, Containing the ...

Verlag: John Richardson

Erscheinungsdatum: 1817

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fair

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