The Theory and Practice of Surveying; Containing All the Instructions Requisite for the Skillful Practice of This Art. with a New Set of Accurate Mathematical Tables

Full leather. New edition with revisions by James Ryan. CONTENTS: Part I. Decimal Fractions; Involution and Evolution; Of Logarithms; Elements of Geometry; Mathematical Instruments; Trigonometry. Part II. The Chain, the Circumferentor, the Theodolite, the Semicircle, the Plane Table, Mensuration of Angles by These Instruments, the Protractor; Mensuration of Heights, Mensuration of Distances; Mensuration of Areas, General Method, Pennsylvania Method, Of Computing the Area of a Survey, Geometrically Considered and Demonstrated; Of Offsets; Method of Surveying by Intersections; Changing the Scale of Maps; Method of Dividing Land; Maritime Surveying; Levelling; Promiscuous Questions. Part III. Introductory Principles; Description of Instruments; Variation of the Compass. List of Tables: Logarithms of Numbers; Sines and Tangents; Traverse Table; Natural Sines.