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John Love's Geodaesia, art of surveying land 1796

Title: Geodaesia: Or, the Art of Surveying, and Measuring Land Made Easy.
Author: Love, John
Description: [8], 189, [16], 3, [35], 8 pp. (4to) 7½x4, later mottled calf with black gilt-lettered spine label. Thirteenth Edition.A very mathematical text, which contains many geometric diagrams, illustrating "by plain and practical rules, [how] to survey...reduce or divide any piece of land whatsoever..." -title page.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Samuel Campbell
Date Published: 1796

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Front cover detached, rear cover almost detached; library ink stamp and perforation on first page of preface, moderate to heavy foxing; good.

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