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STAPLEBOUND ORANGE. Etat : FAIR. AN EX-LIBRARY BOOK. general wear to cover and spine. very clean orange endpapers. pages are very clean. faded red stamp to bottom of first endpage which states "ATLANTIC CITY FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY". pages are very clean. black illustration to front. DATE PUBLISHED: 1988 EDITION: 40. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Original binding, fill tree calf, leather label in gilt at spine, xxii (1) 24 - 263. Leaves toned and rears with partial stains, solid binding. A tidy, unsophisticated copy.

Eighth edition. vii, [2], 10-452 pp., 13 folded leaves of plates. 8vo. Error in paging: p. 437 misnumbered 473. The first four editions of Robert Gibson's Surveying were published in Dublin, Ireland beginning in 1739. The first American edition was published in 1785 and is shown as a fourth edition. "Gibson's Surveying was a dominant American text for a half century, and the standard against which others were compared. It appeared on the American scene when there was a need for what it offered, particularly in regard to calculating land areas from metes and bounds surveys," (P.O.B.). A small sheet of penciled survey calculations laid in loose. Interesting contemporary vellum protective covers. All plates present. Evans: 33795. Sabin: see 27321; Rink 2388. Boards are detached but fitted into 19th c. sewn vellum wrappers; spine attached, free front endpaper missing, stain to interior edge of title leaf, foxing throughout, contemporary notations on blank leaves at 298, 393, and rear free endpaper, charts browned and frayed at the margins, not affecting images, one chart with small repair to inner margin, not affecting images. Brown calf with red morocco spine label, gilt title. …

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 8th. Contemporary calf binding. Cover wear. Binding solid. 8vo. Foxing. vii, [8]-452 p., 13 engraved plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm. Collated. Early American imprint. "Gibsons Surveying was a dominant American text for a half century, and the standard against which others were compared. It appeared on the American scene when there was a need for what it offered, particularly in regard to calculating land areas from metes and bounds surveys," (P.O.B.) Evans 33795; Sabin 27321; Rink 2388. Stephen C. Powers' book, 1813. Dunham, Mass. (Powers was later in Bedford, where he married Charlotte Belden.).…