Field of activity involving locating terrestrial points and the distances and angles between them

Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.

Geology: a long section through mountains, and a volcano, showing strata, and, above, classes of animals. Coloured engraving by J. Fisher after T. Webster and F. Buckland.

A man and his assistant holding a rope to survey a field. Woodcut, 15--.

An Arabic (?) man singing from a songbook; African or Indian men surveying the land; westerners sowing seed and reaping; smiths hammering iron. Engraving.

Geography: comparative heights of mountains in South America. Aquatint, 1818.

Surveying: equipment for surveying, a level, a plumb-line, etc. Coloured engraving by J. Lodge.

Louis Lacharme, with a level and with local assistants, clearing a route through dense jungle in Panama for an interoceanic canal. Wood engraving by G. Vuillier.

Measurement: a pedometer. Engraving, [1661?].

Surveying: methods of surveying hills around a bay (?). Engraving by J.B.P. Tardieu.

1 print : engraving ; image and border 23.5 x 15.8 cm

vi [i.e. iv], 494 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf 18 folded plates : illustrations ; (12mo)

Méthode de lever les plans et les cartes de terre et de mer ... / par feu M. Ozanam ouvrage entièrement refondu et augmenté par M. Audierne / [Jacques Ozanam].

A compendious system of practical surveying, and dividing of land  concisely defined, methodically arranged, and fully exemplified. The whole adapted for the easy and regular instruction of youth, in our American schools. Compiled by Zachariah Jess, schoolmaster in Wilmington. Copy right secured according to law.

A treatise of practical surveying  which is demonstrated from its first principles. Wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art, is fully considered and explained. Particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the areas of right-lined figures arithmetically, or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of. The whole illustrated with copper-plates. By Robert Gibson, teacher of the mathematics. With alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors.

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Measurement: a pedometer. Engraving, [1661?].

Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.

Méthode de lever les plans et les cartes de terre et de mer ... / par feu M. Ozanam ouvrage entièrement refondu et augmenté par M. Audierne / [Jacques Ozanam].

Surveying

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Measurement: a pedometer. Engraving, [1661?].

Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.

Méthode de lever les plans et les cartes de terre et de mer ... / par feu M. Ozanam ouvrage entièrement refondu et augmenté par M. Audierne / [Jacques Ozanam].

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