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The practical measurer his pocket-companion

By: Language: English Publication details: London printed by T. Wood, for J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter, B. Sprint, W. Innys, J. Osborne and T. Longman, and R. Robinson 1730Description: [4], ii, [14], 164 p. long 12oSubject(s): Action note:
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Summary: containing tables ready cast up, for the speedy mensuration of timber, board, &c. Being Very useful for such as are necessarily employ'd in the Practice of Measuring. By Isaac Keay. The fourth edition, revised and corrected, and thereto added Columns for the Side of the Square, being Inches, and 1 and 3 Quarters, or Double to what they were before, &c. With an appendix, Containing Four several Ways of measuring both Timber of one Thickness and Tapering, and a Vindication of measuring by the Girt; and a preface. By E. Hatton, Gent.
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containing tables ready cast up, for the speedy mensuration of timber, board, &c. Being Very useful for such as are necessarily employ'd in the Practice of Measuring. By Isaac Keay. The fourth edition, revised and corrected, and thereto added Columns for the Side of the Square, being Inches, and 1 and 3 Quarters, or Double to what they were before, &c. With an appendix, Containing Four several Ways of measuring both Timber of one Thickness and Tapering, and a Vindication of measuring by the Girt; and a preface. By E. Hatton, Gent.