Rathborne, Aaron

Estimate

4,500 - 6,000 USD

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Description

The surveyor in foure books. London: by W. Stansby for W: Burre, 1616
paper, ink, leather

Folio (265 x 183 mm). Engraved title, 2 engraved portraits and numerous illustrations in text, blanks present, some contemporary marginalia; light dampstain in lower corner of last few leaves. Contemporary limp vellum.

Provenance

C.E. Kenney (booklabel)

Literature

STC (2nd ed.), 20748

Catalogue Note

first edition of the first full-scale treatise on geometrical surveying. "One of the most important contributions to surveying in the seventeenth century. Rathborne improved greatly on existing methods and was the first English author to provide a detailed description of the field book. The theorems and methods herein remained the standard for the next two centuries."