Dominic Winter Auctions
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Love (John). Geodaesia: or, the Art of Surveying and Measuring of Land, made Easie ... also, How to Lay-out New Lands in America, or elsewhere, 1st edition, printed for John Taylor, 1688, title-page printed in red and black, numerous woodcut diagrams in text, 2 full-page, intermittent variable damp-staining (mainly light and marginal), title-page damp-stained and slightly finger-marked, shallow ink-stain in fore margin of quires [pi]-a, another shallow dark stain to fore margin from quire S to end, spill-burn in K4 obscuring one letter verso, small worm-track in gutter of quires I-Q, 20th-century sheep, rubbed, 4to (19.5 x 14.6 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC R1523; Wing L3191; not in Sabin. ‘This handbook was one of the few specifically addressing British American surveying practices … Love’s Geodaesia was by far the most available surveying manual teaching British colonists the theorems of geometry and trigonometry, the methods of surveying land by compass and chain, and the art of writing the plat’ (Brückner, The Geographic Revolution in Early America , p. 27). ESTC traces five institutional copies in the United Kingdom.
