A TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPAL MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS employed in surveying, levelling, and astronomy : explaining their construction, adjustments, and use. With an appendix, and tables
Simms Frederick W.
Published by Frederick W. Simms, London, 1836
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118pp. Numerous engravings and diagrams. Later binding, Qtr bound in tan leather over tan cloth. There is an impressed stamp in the fep. Seller Inventory # 28395
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Title: A TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPAL MATHEMATICAL ...
Publisher: Frederick W. Simms, London
Publication Date: 1836
Binding: Hardcover
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Edition: Second improved
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A Treatise on the Principal Mathematical Instruments Employed in Surveying, Levelling, and Astronomy: Explaining Their Construction, Adjustments, and Use. With an Appendix, and Tables / Catalogue of Instruments Made By Troughton and Simms
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Troughton and Simms., London., 1849
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Very good. Bound in full calf prize binding of King's College, London and with their gilt armorial crest to the upper board and prize bookplate to front pastedown. Marbled endpapers. Gilt inner dentelles and tooling. Slightly foxed. All edges gilt. Seventh edition. Published by Troughton and Simms, 1849, London. Seller Inventory # 035326
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A treatise on the principal mathematical instruments employed in surveying, levelling, and astronomy: explaining their construction, adjustments, and use. With an appendix, and tables. . . Catalogue of instruments made by Troughton and Simms. . . .
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8vo. xi, [1], 118 pp., [10 pp. of tables], plus 7, [1] pp. catalogue. With numerous woodcut engravings, text diagrams, illustrations. Quarger-blue publisher's cloth over gray boards, printed label mounted front cover (minor edgewear, slight bumping to corners, minor dustsoiling, inner hinges expertly repaired), still a VG presentation copy from the author to William Figg (1800-1866), well-known Lewes, Sussex surveyor, who includes pencil note corrections on last page. Second edition, revised, of this informative work by the author details the use of the Land Chain, Surveying Cross, Prismatic Compass, Theodolite, Spirit Level, Sextant, Transit Instrument, and others. Simms (1803-1865), a surveyor and civil engineer of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and formerly with the Ordnance Survey was the son of William Simms (d.1860) scientific instrument maker with Edward Troughton, joined the Southern Eastern Railway Company as resident engineer in 1836, and oversaw the construction of the Bletchingley and Saltwood tunnels. Seller Inventory # 55778