Leybourn, William

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Bidding Closed

Description

The Compleat Surveyor: containing the whole art of surveying of land, by the plain table, theodolite, circumferentor, and peractor: after a more easie, exact and compenious manner, then hath been hitherto published... London: R and W. Leybourn, [1653]
paper, ink, leather

Small folio (270 x 185 mm). Frontispiece portrait, numerous text diagrams; worm track in blank lower margins to page 40, scattered browning or spotting, occasional stain. Contemporary limp vellum; soiled.

Literature

Wing L1907

Catalogue Note

first edition. In 1666 the author became one of the six surveyors charged with measuring the damage caused by the Great Fire of London. A scarce work, last at auction in 1966.