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041	0		_aeng
100	1		_aCoggeshall, Henry _d1623-1690
240			_aTreatise of measures
245	0	4	_aThe art of practical measuring, by the sliding rule _bShewing, how to measure round, square or other timber, stone, board, glass, paving, painting, wainscot. Also gauging; with instructions in decimals, Mr. Townley's method of the logarithms, and the use of the diagonal scale applied to gunter's chain. By Henry Coggeshall, Gent. Whereto is added, in a short method, the use of scamozzi's lines, for finding the lengths and angles of hips, rasters, &c. at any pitch, in square, bevelling or tapering frames. By John Ham. And to render the book more compleat, in this edition is added, a compendium of practical geometry and the principles of plain trigonometry, with the application thereof, by G. Thomson, A.M.
250			_aThe fifth edition, carefully revised
260			_aLondon _bPrinted for John Oswald, at the Rose and Crown, in the Poultry, near Stocks-Market _cMDCCXXXII. [1732]
300			_a[12], 90, [2]; [4], 62p., plates _c12o
520			_aIn fact a reissue of the fourth edition, 1729, with the addition of "A compendium of practical geometry" with separate titlepage, pagination and register.
520			_aFirst published as "A treatise of measures".
583			_aCondition reviewed _c20120620 _lcondition level 2
651		4	_aGreat Britain _y1707-
690			_aMeasurement _96256
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