Illustrated Price Guide to Antique Surveying Instruments and Books [Paperback]

Francois D. Uzes (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1980

This guide includes descriptions and illustrations of numerous early American instruments used in surveying, with values assigned according to various periods of manufacture. Special attachments for mining and solar observations are also treated. In addition, a price guide for over 200 surveying texts, manuals, and manufacturer's catalogs, for the years 1616 to 1925, is included. Supplementing this is a bibliography of all known surveying books published in America up to 1850.

Contents: Part One, Instruments: Introduction, Sales, metals, inverted images, restoration, condition, tripods; Transits ; Levels; Burt's Solar Compasses; Magnetic Compasses ;Plane Tables ;Targets; Chains and Tapes; Tripods;Leveling Rods ;Plumb Bobs

Part Two - Books:Introduction; Manufacturer's Catalogs; Priced Books; Non-Priced Listing of pre-1850 Treatises.

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Part Two - Books:Introduction; Manufacturer's Catalogs; Priced Books; Non-Priced Listing of pre-1850 Treatises.

Product Details

Paperback: 69 pages
Publisher: Landmark Enterprises; 1St Edition edition (July 1, 1980)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0910845026
ISBN-13: 978-0910845021
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,698,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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