''A Treatise Of Practical Surveying

by Robert Gibson

A Treatise Of Practical Surveying: Which is Demonstrated From its First Principles Wherein Every Thing That is Useful and Curious in that Art, is Fully Considered and Explained.
Title page from A Treatise Of Practical Surveying: Which is Demonstrated From its First Principles Wherein Every Thing That is Useful and Curious in that Art, is Fully Considered and Explained., George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.
Author	Robert Gibson
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Published	Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank . . .
Date	1789
Edition	Fifth
Language	English
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Pages	viii, 272, [1], 90 p., [12] pages.
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In the late eighteenth century the rapid progression of development into areas of the United States that were previously unsettled created a heightened need for accurate and consistent techniques to measure property rights and settle disputes that may arise out of infringement of those rights. A Treatise of Practical Surveying: Which is Demonstrated from its First Principles; Wherein Every Thing That is Useful and Curious in that Art, is Fully Considered and Explained… was authored by Robert Gibson to standardize the process by providing surveyors with a definitive guide to surveying property. Gibson’s work contains extensive coverage of the geometric principles involved in surveying property as well as details on the different surveying methods that may be employed by a surveyor.

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Bound in contemporary calf with leather spine label. Purchased from Bartleby's Books.

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