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ELEMENTS OF DRAWING AND MENSURATION APPLIED TO THE MECHANIC ARTS. A Book For the Instruction and Use of Practical Men
by Davies, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair to Good/No Jacket (as issued)
- Seller
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1846. Book. Fair to Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Davies (1798-1876) was a professor of mathematics at USMC, at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and at the University of New York before eventually becoming professor of higher mathematics at Columbia College, New York. He wrote and re-wrote more than 20 books on mathematics and related subjects (maybe if I had ever read one of them I would know what a quadrilateral equation was -- but probably not, since merely hearing the term "planar convex quadrilateral" makes me break out in hives, and just reading the question "In the prolate spheroid ACBD, the transverse axis AB = 90, and the revolving axis CD = 70 feet: what is the solidity?" makes me comatose). Leather over boards, black leather spine label w/gilt lettering/rule, 240 pages, illustrated with figures. Edgewear, scraped/worn corners/spine ends, cover soil, much previous owner's writing/equations to all end papers/title page/contents page, and a few others, foxing throughout, first end paper almost detached, partially split hinges..
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- Bookseller
- Augustine Funnell Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018697
- Title
- ELEMENTS OF DRAWING AND MENSURATION APPLIED TO THE MECHANIC ARTS. A Book For the Instruction and Use of Practical Men
- Author
- Davies, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair to Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (as issued)
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- A.S. Barnes & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1846
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NOISBN, MENSURATION, OBTUSE ANGLES, MATH, MATHEMATICS, POLYGONS, TRIANGLES, QUADRILATERALS, GEOMETRY, TOPOGRAPHICAL DRAWING, GEOMETRICAL DRRAWINGS, ARCHITECTURE, MEASURES, ARTIFICERS, BRICKLAYERS, CARPENTERS, JOINERS, MASONS, PLASTERERS, TILERS, SLATERS,
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- Non-fiction;
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