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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Leybourn, No date. Facsimile of 1657 Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Gilt tooled brown cloth. Photographic reproduction of original copy, with some red printing to title page. Just a few light marks to covers. Size: Small Quarto. Category: Geography & Maps; .

Hardback. New.

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Printed By R. And W. Leybourn, for Sawbridge, 1657. frontis. [x], 308p. A binding copy, the front and back covers are barely attached to the book, the lower half of the spine is lacking, a few pages at the back probably need to be resewn to properly attach them the the rest of the book, there is some writing and numbers on three of the blank preliminary pages, there are no blank pages or endpapers at the back, and the title page is somewhat soiled, though readable. The paging is erratic, but the book is complete. The pages of the book are relatively clean.. Second Edition, with Many Additions. Full Leather. Good. 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" Tall.

Leybourn for Sawbridge, 1657. later edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Second Edition 1657 Bound in later half calf, marbled boards and extra endpapers. spine blind tooled with raised bands Frontis with partial contemporary hand colouring (one plate also part coloured) (xii), 1-92, 177-244, 247-308 (Pagination erratic but complete with text in four books). Illustrated throughout, much expanded from the 1st edition. Several contemporary notes and initials to preliminaries and title.Provenance R H Johnston’s bookplate (modern)

London, Printed for Samuel Ballard, Aaron Ward and Tho. Woodward,, 1722.. 1722 Folio. [12], 100; 166; 155, [1] p. Portrait, fourteen engraved plates. Titlepage printed in red and black. Final page catalogue of books printed for Ballard, Ward and Woodward. Contemporary panelled calf, rubbed. Spine with raised bands and a new label. Spine ends and corners expertly restored. Some text sections differentially browned as usual, the plates very clean. A very good copy. ESTC T147918.

London: Printed by E Flesher for George Sawbridge. G: in good condition. Original 17th century binding with hinges restored and strengthened. New eps. 1674. Third Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 295mm x 195mm (12" x 8"). [xviii], 429pp + plates. 5 b/w plates + 84 b/w vignettes. Contents listed at front: 1: Geometrical definitions 2: Description of Instruments 3: Trigonometrie [Trigonometry]4: Part 1: Application and use of instruments; part 2: Measuration and plotting of roads, highways street and lanes, and of the taking of the Ground-plot of cities towns and hamlets 5: Measuring 6: Dialling; 7: Legal part of Surveying. The pagination is faulted, jumping from pages 107 to 183 - though the book is complete. William Leybourn was a printer before working as a land and quantity surveyor. He was one of the surveyors of London after the great fire of 1666 where he was associated with Robert Hooke. His book was one of the standard treatises on surveying throughout the second half of the… Read More

, 438 pages, unique leather binding in slipcase, contains 6 fold out plates

London: George Sawbridge, 1674 pp (22) + 107 + 183-429 . In addition to the frontispiece there are five folding plates. This copy is complete despite the jump in pagination after page 107 ; it corresponds with that in the British Library. Internally very good subject to moderate browning, some fraying to the fep and fairly inoffensive evidence of moisture to the edges of the first few leaves. Hinges cracked although binding still holding. Cover, which looks to be contemporary, rather worn. The boards scuffed with wear to the edges and corners. The ornate spine has significant wear to both extremities. Scans available.

Engraved frontis. port. of Leybourn and numerous woodcut diagrams & tables in the text. Title printed in red & black. 6 p.l., 84, 177-279 pp. Small folio, cont. sheep (some wear & rubbing, a few unimportant stains). London: R. & W. Leybourn for E. Brewster & G. Sawbridge, 1653. First edition under this title. "Of all the seventeenth-century writers on surveying, William Leybourn probably exerted a greater influence on the practicing surveyor than any other, with the possible exception of John Love. Leybourn's first contribution to surveying was a short pamphlet, Pantometria or the Whole Art of Surveying, published in London in 1650 and written under the pseudonym of Oliver Wallinsby. This little tract proved so popular that Leybourn was prompted to enlarge it, and in London in 1653 he published [the present work] which passed through four editions in the seventeenth century and a revised edition in the first half of the eighteenth century...… Read More