WYLD, Samuel.  THE PRACTICAL SURVEYOR, OR, THE ART OF LAND-MEASURING.

WYLD, Samuel.  THE PRACTICAL SURVEYOR, OR, THE ART OF LAND-MEASURING.

London: W. Johnston, 1760. 8vo. Contemporary full-calf. Folding frontispiece, viii, 191 pages, 6 folding plates. Fourth edition.

Rare.  First published in 1725, it was popular in America, and recorded in several early Virginia libraries including the libraries of Dr. Nicholas Flood (1775) in Westmoreland County and the also by William Beverley of Blandfield Plantation in Essex County.  It was regularly advertised in the Virginia Gazette up to the eve of the Revolution with several copies sold in the Virginia Gazette daybooks as well.  It is a thoroughly comprehensive study of surveying methods for all terrains and includes the placement of buildings.  The fold-out frontispiece plate illustrates surveying equipment.  Extremities of spine chipped; hinges cracked but firm, else very good.

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