1805 Surveying Method Topography COLOR Map Making Landscaping Construction Lecoy

1805 Surveying Method Topography COLOR Map Making Landscaping Construction Lecoy

Francois Lecoy’s ‘Simple and Easy Methods for Surveying’ is a fine, early 19^th-century treatise on the systems used in construction and map preparation. Lecoy discusses the means by which French surveyors level land through the means of linear trigonometry. This 1805 first edition is an exception example of early 19^th-century landscaping and topography. Note that this book includes impressive, folding color engravings of topographical examples and surveying tools.

Item number: #11652

Price: $599

LECOY, François

Méthode simple et facile pour lever les plans, suivie d’un traité du nivellement, d’un abrégé des règles du lavis et des élémens de trigonométrie rectiligne

A Paris : Chez Duponcet …, an XIII=1805. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages

o   xxxii, 119, [1], 12

o   12 folding plates

• Provenance: Handwritten – Duponcet

o   Signed by the publisher

• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~7in X 4in (18cm x 10cm)

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