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The Young Surveyor's Assistant Shewing The readiest, plainest, and truest methods, for the Measuring and Mapping all Sorts of Lands and Waters; the taking of Heights and Distances; the Tracing and Laying down any Angular Figures whatever, by the Universal Plane Table. This Instrument, for the Smallness of its Size, and the Certainty of its Use, is preferable to any other Instrument yet invented; and will be found of the greatest Utility to all Persons concerned in Land-Surveying, Gardening, or any Branch where the Measuring, or Plotting of Ground is required. To which are added, all the Rules and Tables proper for the taking and casting up a Survey, the purchasing of Leases, &c. By Michael Searles, ... To be had of the inventor, and of Mr. Cole, ... London. ...

By Searles, Michael.
[London] Printed for the author: and sold by the booksellers in town and country 1780 .
40p., plates 8o.

An actual survey of the great post-roads between London and Edinburgh by Mostyn John Armstrong, Geor.

By Armstrong, Mostyn John.
London printed for, and sold by the author and the booksellers 1776 .
[4], 6, [2] p., 44 leaves, plates 12o.

Tables for the easy valuing of estates, from one shilling to five pounds per acre: also the parts of an acre, from three roods to one perch. By Bernard Scale, ... 1771

By Scale, Bernard.
[London] Printed for the author, & sold by T. Cadell in the Strand, & all the principal booksellers in town & country 1771 .
vii, [1], 107, [1] p., plate 8o.

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 Burns, Arthur.
Chester printed for the author, and sold by J. Poole in Chester; and by all other booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland 1771 .
[10], ii, [2], iv-x, 353, [3] p., V plates 8o.

The natural history of Cornwall The air, climate, waters, rivers, lakes, sea and tides; of the stones, semimetals, Metals, Tin, and the manner of mining; The Constitution of the Stannaries; Iron, Copper, Silver, Lead, and Gold, found in Cornwall. Vegetables, Rare Birds, Fishes, Shells, Reptiles, and Quadrupeds: of the inhabitants, Their Manners, Customs, Plays or Interludes, Exercises, and Festivals; the Cornish Language, Trade, Tenures, and Arts. Illustrated with a new sheet map of the country, and twenty-eight folio copper-plates from Original Drawings taken on the Spot. By William Borlase, A. M. F. R. S. Rector of Ludgvan, and Author of the Antiquities of Cornwall

By Borlase, William.
Oxford printed for the author; by W. Jackson: sold by W. Sandby, at the Ship in Fleet-Street London; and the booksellers of Oxford 1758 .
xix, [1], 326, [2] p., plates 2o.