Gummere, John. A Treatise On
Surveying, Containing The Theory And Practice: To Which Is
Prefixed A Perspicuous System Of Plane Trigonometry. The Whole
Clearly Demonstrated And Illustrated By A Large Number Of
Appropriate Examples, Particularly Adapted To The Use Of Schools.
By John Gummere, A.M. Fellow Of The American Philosophical
Society, And Corresponding Member Of The Academy Of Natural
Sciences, Philadelphia. Sixth Edition, Improved. Kimber &
Sharpless. Philadelphia. 1832. 8vo, 152+ p. Tables Orig. calf,
waterstained. Endpapers lacking. Section at end missing. I.D.#09635.
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Davies, Charles.
Elements Of Surveying And Levelling; With Descriptions Of The
Instruments And The Necessary Tables. By Charles Davies, LL.D.
Author Of A Full Course Of Mathematics. A.S. Barnes & Co. New
York/Chicago. 1873. 8vo, 161 p. 6 fold. plates, figs., cuts. Legal
sheep, hinges cracked, worn with slight damp staining. The author
was a distinguished mathematician and a graduate of West Point in
1815. He was later professor of mathematics there and then at
N.Y.U. and Columbia. The system he taught was developed by Colonel
Jared Mansfield and all surveys of public lands in the U.S. were
done using the Mansfield-Davies methods. Contains a chapter on
railroad and one on mine surveying. Davies died in 1876 and this
is the last and most complete edition. The engraved plates were
the work of a West Point cadet. I.D.#06927.
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