LEYBOURN, THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, LONDON, 1653, FOLIO, CONTEMPORARY CALF

FIRST EDITION, folio (277 x 176mm.), engraved portrait, title printed in red and black, diagrams in text, contemporary calf, modern folding cloth box, occasional slightly stains, binding rubbed, slight loss of leather at two corners 

Cortachy Castle, library label; bought from John Lawson, East Hagbourne, 1986

Tomash & Williams L94; ESTC R20856; Wing L1907

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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Rare at auction. Leybourn was a mathematician and surveyor, and a prolific author on both subjects. “In October 1666 he was appointed one of the six surveyors to measure the damage caused by the Great Fire of London. Leybourn's practice as a land surveyor continued and he mapped estates in London and many other English counties for several clients” (ODNB).