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035			_a(Sirsi) u155395
041	0		_aeng
100	1		_aTalbot, Benjamin
240			_aNew art of land measuring
245	0	4	_aThe compleat art of land-measuring _bor, a guide to practical surveying: teaching an exact method of Measuring and Mapping of Lands, Woods, Waters, &c. by the Catoptric Sextant, and of Casting up the same by the Pen. Together with Directions for Levelling, in order to convey Water either in Pipes or Canals. To which is added an appendix, containing a new theory of the catoptric sectant, and its Use in taking Heights and Distances, independent of Trigonometry: also, Instructions for Measuring of Standing Timber. With several plain and useful tables. The second edition, illustrated with copper-plates. By B. Talbot, Teacher of the Mathematics at Cannock.
260			_aLondon _bprinted for T. and W. Lowndes, No. 77, Fleet-Street: and sold by Mess. Pearson and Rollason, Birmingham; J. Smart, Wolverhampton; and the author, at Cannock _cMDCCLXXXIV. [1784]
300			_a[4], xxiii, [1], 412 p., plates, table _c8o
520			_aWith a half-title.
583			_aCondition reviewed _c20120620 _lcondition level 2
651		4	_aGreat Britain _y1707-
690			_aMeasurement _96256
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999			_c113538 _d113538