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035 _a(Sirsi) u155218
041 0 _aeng
100 1 _aHolwell, John
_d1649-1686
245 0 2 _aA sure guide to the practical surveyor
_bin two parts. The first, shewing how to plot all manner of grounds, whether small inclosures, champain-ground, wood-lands, mountains, and dales, by the semicircle, plain table, and chain. As also, how to find the area, or content thereof, with the manner of protracting, reducing, and dividing the same; and also how to inclose a mannor lying in a common field, with the drawing of a perfect draught or map thereof, and how to deck and beautifie the same. And likewise how to convey water from any spring-head, to any appointed place. The second, shewing how to take the ground-plot of any city or corporation: as also the mensuration of roads, highways, and rivers, with the manner of making a map of any county or kingdom. The like never before extant. By John Holwell, philomath.
260 _aLondon
_bprinted by W. Godbid, for Christopher Hussey, at the Flower de Luce in Little-Britain
_c1678
300 _a[12], 273, 242-255, 280-297, 290-292 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded)
_bdiagrams, maps, tables
_c8o
583 _aCondition reviewed
_c20120620
_lcondition level 1
651 4 _aGreat Britain
_y1707-
690 _aMeasurement
_96256
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999 _c113405
_d113405