A Treatise on Practical Surveying; which is demonstrated from its first principles...
New-York: William A. Davis & Co., 1798. Very Good. Item #32473
New-York: William A. Davis & Co. for Gaine & Ten Eyck, T. Allen, S. Campbell, E. Duykinck & Co. N. Judah, T. & J. Swords, B. Gomez, New York; M. Carey, Philadelphia, and C.R. & G. Webster, Albany, 1798. Eighth Edition. Octavo (21cm.); full contemporary sheep, red gilt spine label; vii,[8]-452pp. (collated complete); thirteen copper plates, three folding, extensive tables printed on final 150pp. of text. Leather a bit scuffed and worn at corners and spine ends, brief peeling to rear cover, spine crown slightly pulled, textblock toned, else Very Good and sound. Extensive contemporary ownership signatures to front and rear endpapers of a John Lefferts, quite possibly the future New York Congressman who would have been fifteen when he signed his name in this book in 1800.
Rink, "Technical Americana," 2388; Evans 33795.
Price: $450.00