British garden designer and architect (1696–1751)

Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening and mensuration ... To which is annexed, an account of the clandestine practice now generally obtaining in mensuration, and particularly the damage sustained in selling timber by measure. And set to view in four parts ... The whole exemplifi'd with above 60 folio copper plates, by the best hands / By Batty Langley.

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