Title:
Practical Geometry: Applied to the Useful Arts of Building, Surveying, Gardening and Mensuration; Calculated for the Service of Gentlemen as well as Artisans, and set to View In Four Parts
Publisher:
W. and J. Innys, J. Osborn and T. Longman, B. Lintot, J. Woodman and D. Lyons, C. King, E. Symon, and W, Bell 1726
Description:
RARE FIRST EDITION, large quarto, brown wave-patterned buckram boards, half bound in brown leather, gilt lettering + gilt tooling to spine, blind stamped decoration to binding, unpaginated illus prelims + 136pp + 38 plates (some foldouts, interspersed and to rear), VG- (moderate-heavy bruising to spine + extrems w/ some surface loss to leather and fraying to buckram, 2cm tear at head of spine, light-moderate rubbing + mild staining to boards, heavy foxing + moderate tanning to page edges, crack running length of front gutter, moderate foxing + prev owner's name in blue pencil to fep, moderate discolouration + light creasing to pages throughout, light to moderately heavy foxing throughout, sporadic mild-moderate staining to margins, occasional unobtrusive notes & figures in pencil to margins throughout, 3cm crack to foot of rear gutter)
