Narrow 8vo. xxxvi, 212 pp. b/w folding frontispiece and line ill. "Solid content of any piece of timber. superficial content of boards. with a preface showing the excellence of this new method of measuring; and some curious observations concerning measuring of timber by several dimensions." Later edition of a book that had been in print for at least 100 years, testifying to its usefulness to carpenters, shipwrights, and the like. Folding frontispiece engraving showing timber and measurements is clean and intact. Text clean. Bound in original mottled calf.

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Title

Hoppus's Practical Measurer; or Measuring Made Easy to the Meanest Capacity, by a New Set of Tables.

Publisher

S. Johnson, London

Publication Date

1840

Binding

Hardcover

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Maritime

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