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The purchasers pattern In two parts. The first shewing the true value of the purchase of any parcel of land or houses, by lease or otherwise. Also new tables of interest and rebate at 6 per cent. The second part, shewing the measuring of land, board and timber, and the false rules and deceits of many therein. Also the gauging of all vessels, with many other rules about weights and measures, and several tables of accounts, with many other rules and tables of daily use for most men. The third edition, much enlarged by Henry Philippes

By: Language: English Publication details: London printed by R. and W. Leybourn, for Thomas Pierrepont, at the Sun in Pauls Churchyard 1656.Description: [16], 126, 123-240 p. ill. (woodcuts), tables 12oSubject(s): Action note:
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Summary: "The purchasers pattern: the second part" has separate dated title page (F7r); pagination and register are continuous.
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OCTAVO 1650 COKE The compleat copy-holder OCTAVO 1652 BLITH The English improuer improued or the survey of husbandry surueyed OCTAVO 1654 EYRE The exact surveyor: or, The whole art of surveying of land OCTAVO 1656 PHILLIPPES The purchasers pattern OCTAVO 1658 ATWELL The faithfull surveyour discovering divers errours in land measuring; and shewing how to measure all manner of ground, and to plot it, and to shut it, and to prove the shutting, by the chain onely; as quickly, exactly, and with less help then with any instrument whatsoever: as also to take distances of a mile-space by the chain without measuring of them, and the situation of any building. Teaching likewise the making and use of a new and general instrument, called a pandoron; which, as exactly and with less charge, supplies the use of the plain-table, theodelete, quadrant, quadrat, circumferentor, and any other observing instrument. To this is added a discovery of divers secrets touching conveying and cleansing of water, flowing and drayning of grounds, quenching houses on fire, &c. With an appendix unfolding errours in board and timber-measure with directions for making a carpenters-ruler. By George Atvvell, aliàs Wells, now teacher of the mathematicks in Cambridge OCTAVO 1658 COLLINS The sector on a quadrant OCTAVO 1663 GERBIER Counsel and advise to all builders

"The purchasers pattern: the second part" has separate dated title page (F7r); pagination and register are continuous.