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Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 1st edition. 40 pages. 10.00x8.00x0.10 inches. In Stock. Enagonio, Nina (illustrateur).

Pamphlet. Etat : Good. 11 p. 21.5 cm. 5 tables at rear. Blue paper covers with black print. Vertical fold. Small chips in front cover. Soiled rear. Former owner's label on title page. Dampstains. Small hole in margin of p. 5. Small tear in top rear. Lists managers and officers of the company. Report written by George Talbot Olyphant, President.…

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 : Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Full leather with banded spine and red spine-label with gilt lettering. Gilt lining around edges of covers, marbled end-papers, title-page printed in red and black. Occasional decorative engravings. Volume has been re-backed using a new spine and leather underlining to covers, sound binding, clean pages. One volume of the 6-volume set. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-4kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 14823081025. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.…

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.).…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Contemporary calf, handsomely rebacked, with gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label in second compartment (5 raised bands); four works bound together in one volume, 8vo; TIME, 1750 First Edition, pp. xxvii, [1], 130, [2] (ads); SIRIS, 1747 London reprint of the Dublin edition, pp. 174, [1] (contents); QUERIST, 1750 First Edition, pp. [4], 83, [1]; MORALS, 1751 First Edition, pp. 30. Boards scratched and scuffed. Contemporary handwritten notes on FFEP, listing the volume's contents; contermporary ownership signature on title-page of TIME and QUERIST; contemporary marginalia in QUERIST. Otherwise an excellent, clean copy, nice and tight, text block just a bit tanned and brittle along the edges (more pronounced on first and last few leaves).…

Etat : very good. 25 cm, 253, illus. (some color), fold-out plates, references, index, 250 copies of this book were printed.

Broadside (approx.15" x 12"), display type at top enclosing a wood engraving of a horse-drawn passenger barge; previous folds, several short marginal tears and cracks, especially at the top; all else very good. The body of the broadside consists of a list of goods and merchandise such as stone, cotton bales, timber, lead and copper, glassware, coal, cement, etc., with rates per mile, per 60 miles, and per 108 miles for the whole length of the canal. Not found in OCLC. …