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The surueyor in foure bookes by Aaron Rathborne by Language: English
Publication details: London Printed by W: Stansby for, W: Burre 1616
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1616 RATHBORNE.
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A chorographicall description of all the tracts, riuers, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britain with intermixture of the most remarkeable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarities, pleasures, and commodities of the same. Diuided into tw bookes; the latter containing twelue songs, neuer before imprinted. Digested into a poem by Michael Drayton. Esquire. With a table added, for direction to those occurrences of story and antiquitie, whereunto the course of the volume easily leades not by Language: English
Publication details: London printed [by Humphrey Lownes and Augustine Mathewes] for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe 1622
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: REGIONAL OCTAVO 1622 DRAYTON.
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1183.
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The compleat surveyor containing the whole art of surveying of land, by the plain table, theodolite, circumferentor, and peractor: after a more easie, exact and compenious manner, then hath been hitherto published by any: ... Together with the taking of all manner of heights and distances, either accessible or in-accessible, the plotting and protracting of all manner of grounds, ... Also, how to take the plot of a whole mannor, to cast up the content, and to make a perfect chart of map thereof. All which particulars are performed three severall wayes, and by three severall instruments. Hereunto is added, the manner how to know whether water may be conveyed from a spring head to any appointed place or not, and how to effect the same: with whatsoever else is necessary to the art of surveying. By William Leybourn by Language: English
Publication details: London printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for E. Brewster and G. Sawbridge, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bible upon Ludgate hill, neer Fleet-bridge M.DCLIII. [1653]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1653 LEYBOURN.
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1184.
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The compleat surveyor, containing the whole art of surveying of land By the plaine table, theodolite, circumferentor, peractor and other instruments, after a more easie, exact and compendious manner, then hath been hitherto published by any: the Plain Table being so contrived, that it alone will conveniently perform whatsoever may be done by any of the fore-mentioned instruments, or any other yet invented, with the same ease and exactness; and in many cases much better. Together with the taking of all manner of heights and distances, either accessible or in-accessible, the plotting and protracting of all manner of grounds, either small inclosures, champion plains, wood-lands, or any other mountainous and un-even grounds. Also, how to take the plot of a whole manor, to cast up to the conteut, and to make a perfect chart or map thereof. All which particulars are performed three several ways, and and [sic] by three several instruments. Hereunto is added a new way of surveying of land, by which a man may be satisfied whether his plot will close before he begins to protract the same, with the manner how to order such water colours as are necessary for the beautifying of maps and plots; also how to know whether water may be conveyed from a spring-head to any appointed place or not, and how to effect the same: with whatsoever else is necessary to the art of surveying. The second edition, with many additions. By William Leybourn by Language: English
Publication details: London printed by R. and W. Leybourn, for G. Sawbridge, at the signe of the Bible upon Ludg-gate-hill M.DC.LVII. 1657
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1657 LEYBOURN.
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1185.
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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 by Language: English
Publication details: London printed by E. Flesher for George Sawbridge, at the sign of the Bible upon Ludgate-hill 1674
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1674 LEYBOURN.
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1186.
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Systema agriculturae the mystery of husbandry discovered: treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices. As also of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new-hays, cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, &c. With an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession. To which is added kalendarium rusticum: or, the husbandmans monthly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, thunder, &c. And dictionarium rusticum: or, the interpretation of rustick terms. The whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practice. The second edition, carefully corrected and amended; with many large and useful additions throughout the whole work: by the author. Published for the common good: by J.W. Gent. by Language: English
Publication details: London printed by J[ames]. C[ottrell]. for T. Dring; and are to be sold by Charles Smith and Tho. Burrell, at the Angel neer the Inner-Temple-gate, and the Golden Ball under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street 1675
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: AGRICULTURE OCTAVO 1675 WORLIDGE.
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1187.
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The compleat surveyor containing the whole art of surveying of the land, by the plain table, circumferentor, theodolite, peractor, and other instruments. With divers kinds of mensurations, and matters pertinent to a work of this nature. The whole treatise being comprise in VII. books. The fourth edition, corrected and much enlarged, an account whereof is given in the preface to the reader. By William Leybourn Philomathematicus by Language: English
Publication details: London printed by E. Flesher, for George Sawbridge, at the signe of the Bible on Ludgate-hill 1679
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1679 LEYBOURN.
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1188.
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Geodaetes practicus redivivus The art of surveying: formerly publish'd by Vincent Wing, math. Now much augmented and improv'd; with an appendix thereunto subjoin'd, shewing the whole art of surveying by a new instrument, called the emperial table; performing exactly in all respects, and in all cases that can possibly happen in the practical part of surveying, the work of the theodolite, circumferentor, semi-circle, chard and needle. With the description and use of a new quadrant. To which is added by way of supplement, scientia stellarum: containing new and accurate tables of the planetary motions, whereby the planets places both in longitude and latitude, the places of the fixed stars, with the eclipses of the luminaries, are more easily attain'd, than by any yet extant. By John Wing, math. by Language: English
Publication details: London printed by J. Matthews, for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row MDCC. [1700]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1700 WING.
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1189.
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The compleat surveyor or, the whole art of surveying of land, by a new instrument lately invented; As also by the Plain Table, Circumferentor, the Theodolite as now improv'd, or by the Chain only. Containing plain and easy directions in several kinds of mensurations, and Other Things necessary to be known in a Work of this Nature. By William Leybourn. The whole altered and amended, and Two entire Books added by the Author long before his Death. The fifth edition, in IX books. Every Operation both Geometrical & Arithmetical being examin'd, and an appendix Added to the Whole, Consisting of Practical Observations in Land Surveying, by Samuel Cunn by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for Samuel Ballard at the Blue Ball, and Aaron Ward at the King's Arms in Little Britain, and Tho. Woodward at the Half-Moon against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1722
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1722 LEYBOURN.
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1190.
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Speculum Britanniae; an historical and chorographical description of Middlesex and Hartfordshire Wherein are alphabetically set down the names of the cities, towns, parishes, hamlets, houses of note, &c. in those counties: with direction speedily to find any place desired, in the maps, and the distance between place and place without compasses. By John Norden. Illustrated with maps curiously engraved by Mr. Senex, and the arms of the principal persons interr'd in the county of Middlesex. To which is added, a preparative to this work, intended a reconciliation of sundrie propositions by divers persons tendred, concerning the same, by the said author by Language: English
Publication details: London Printed for Daniel Browne Senior and Junior, at the Black Swan without Temple Bar; and James Woodman, in Bow-Street Covent Garden MDCCXXIII. [1723]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1723 NORDEN.
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The young builder's rudiments or the principles of geometry, mechanicks, mensuration and perspective, geometrically demonstrated. Together with the five orders of columns in architecture. According to the Proportions of the Celebrated Palladio. Calculated for the Use of Workmen, Gentlemen and Others, who delight in Designing, Drawing, Painting, Engraving, and Gardening, &c. Adorn'd with about thirty large copper plates, curiously engrav'd by J. Vandergucht and B. Cole. By B. Langley by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for J. Millan at his Shop near White-Hall MDCCXXX [1730]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1730 LANGLEY.
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1193.
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An intire system of arithmetic or arithmetic in all its parts. Containing I. Vulgar. II. Decimal. III. Duodecimal. IV. Sexagesimal. V. Political. VI. Logarithmical. Vii. Lineal. Viii. Instrumental. IX. Algebraical. With the Arithmetic of Negatives, and Approximation or Converging Series. The whole intermix'd with rules new, curious, and useful, mostly accounted for in the preface. The Algebraic Part is rendered more Plain and Easy, than hath been done, by Instructive Rules and Examples Literally and Numerally, in a Method New: Solving Equations, Simple, Quadratic, Cubic, &c. several ways. And in the proper Places of this Work are An Accurate Table of Logarithms to 10000, and Rule to find those to 100000000, and Natural Numbers to such Logarithms; with the full Use of the Table in Multiplication, Division. Involution, Evolution, and in the Solution of all Cases of Compound Interest, of which there are 21 Large and Exquisite Tables, (and one for the Valuation of Church or College-Leases of their Land) as also those of Simple Interest and Discount, with a new Method of finding the later and the present Worth of Money for Days. Also Ample Definitions and Explanations of Numbers, Quantities and Terms used in all Parts of Arithmetic, in Alphabetical Order; rendring the Whole more Intelligible, and the Easier Learned. With an appendix, shewing the Mensuration of more Superficies and Solids than any Book wrote purposely on that Subject has exhibited. This Treatise, for Copiousness and Novelty of Matter and Method, for exceeding the most Perfect Arithmetic extant. Necessary for all who would in a short Time, and with little Study, acquire a competent Knowledge of Numbers and Species, or would make any considerable Progress in the Mathematicks. By Edward Hatton, Gent. by
Edition: The second edition, with additions Language: English
Publication details: London printed for G. Strahan, at the Golden-Ball, over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill 1731
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1731 HATTON.
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1194.
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The builders compleat assistant or a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal in whole Numbers and Fractions. II. Geometry, Lineal, Superficial and Solid. III. Architecture, Universal. IV. Mensuration. V. Plain Trigonometry. VI. Surveying of Land, &c. Vii. Mechanick Powers. Viii. Hydrostaticks. Illustrated by above Thirteen Hundred Examples of Lines, Superficies, Solids, Mouldings, Pedestals, Columns, Pilasters, Entablatures, Pediments, Imposts, Block Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Frontispieces, Arcades, Portico's, &c. Proportioned By Modules and Minutes, According to Andrea Palladio. And by Equal Parts. Likewise, great Varieties of Trussed Roofs, Timber Bridges, Centerings, Arches, Groins, Twisted Rails, Compartments, Obelisques, Vases, Pedestals for Busto's, Sun-Dials, Fonts, &c. and Methods for raising heavy Bodies by the Force of Levers, Pulleys, Axis in Peritrochio, Screws, and Wedges; as also Water, by the common Pump, Crane, &c. Wherein The Properties, and Pressure of the Air, on Water, &c. is explained. The whole exemplified by 77 large quarto copper-plates. By B. Langley by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for Richard Ware, at the Bible and Sun, in Amen-Corner, near Pater-Noster-Row [1738]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (2)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1738 LANGLEY VOL 1, ...
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A practical treatise of husbandry wherein are contained, many useful and valuable experiments and observations in the new husbandry, collected during a series of years, by the celebrated M. Duhamel du Monceau, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, Fellow of the Royal Society, London, &c. Also, the most approved practice of the best English farmers, in the Old Method of Husbandry. With copper-plates of several new and useful Instruments by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for J. Whiston and B. White in Fleet-Street, R. Baldwin in Pater-Noster-Row, W. Johnston in Ludgate-Street, P. Davey and B. Law in Ave-Mary-Lane MDCCLIX. [1759]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: HUSBANDRY QUARTO 1759 DUHAMEL.
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A treatise on mensuration, both in theory and practice By Charles Hutton by Language: English
Publication details: Newcastle upon Tyne Printed by T. Saint for the author, and for John Wilkie in St Paul's Church Yard, and Richard Baldwin in Pater-noster Row, London 1770
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1770 HUTTON.
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A course of experimental agriculture containing an exact register of all the business transacted during five years on near three hundred acres of various soils; including a variety of experiments on the cultivation of all sorts of grain and pulse, both in the old and new methods; the raising large crops of turneps, cabbages, carrots, potatoes, &c. and several plants not usually cultivated, as food for cattle; and the application of them to feeding or fattening of oxen, cows, horses, hogs, sheep, &c. Also the management of the artificial grasses, particularly clover, lucerne, sainfoine, burnet, &c. in the broad-cast, drilling, and transplanting methods; and their uses in feeding several sorts of cattle. The culture of madder. A particular comparison between the old and new husbandry. The management of pasture lands. On ploughing, harrowing, and other operations of tillage, relative to the season, number, depth, &c. On the general feeding and fattening of cattle on various articles of food; the expences, profit, quantity eat, &c. The implements of husbandry, their defects, improvements, &c. With other subjects of importance to the country gentleman and farmer. The whole stated in near two thousand original experiments. In two volumes. ... by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall M.DCC.LXX. [1770]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (2)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1770 YOUNG VOL 1, ...
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Geodaesia improved or, a new and correct method of surveying made exceeding easy. In two parts. Part I, Teacheth to measure, divide, and delineate, any Quantity of Land both accessible and inaccessible, whether Meadows, Pasture, Fields, Woods, Water, Commons, Forests, Manors, &c. by the chain only, whose Dimensions are cast up by the pen, and consequently freed from the errors of estimation that unavoidably attend the Scale and Protractor. With necessary Directions to map elegantly. Part II, Introduces Instruments, Trigonometry, preparative Remarks on the Earth's Superficies; and teacheth the invaluable Method of casting up the Dimensions of Instruments by the pen several Ways, all agreeing, &c. &c. With a most useful appendix Concerning the practical Methods of measuring Timber, Hay, Marl Pits, Bricklayers and Plaisterers Work. The whole being illustrated with proper Definitions, Problems, Rules, Examples, Explanations, and emblematical Types, rendered uncommonly easy. By A. Burns, Teacher of the Mathematics in Tarporley, Cheshire. by Language: English
Publication details: Chester printed for the author, and sold by J. Poole in Chester; and by all other booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland MDCCLXXI. [1771]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1771 BURNS.
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An act for the further and better regulation of buildings, and party-walls and for the more effectually preventing mischiefs by fire within the cities of London and Westminster, and the liberties thereof, and other the parishes, precincts, and places, within the weekly bills of mortality, the parishes of Saint Mary-le-bon, Paddington, Saint Pancras, and Saint Luke at Chelsea, in the county of Middlesex; and for indemnifying, under certain conditions, builders, and other persons against the penalties to which they are or may be liable for erecting buildings withi the limits aforesaid contrary to law. by Language: English
Publication details: London printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan 1774
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: QUARTO 1774 ACT.
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