Methode de Lever les Plans et les Cartes de Terre et de Mer, avec toutes sortes d’instrumens, et sans Instrumens

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12mo. Hardcover, Contemporary full mottled calf, raised bands, gilt spine decorations and title, edges stained red, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. 17×9.5×3 cm. Antoine Jombert. Paris. 1750. [12], 244, [5] pages. 16 fold-out engraved plates. Very good, cover extremities worn, contents tight and clean, ols bookseller’s pencil notes to endpapers. French text. A nice copy of this popular treatise on surveying and drawing maps by a well-known French mathematician. An interesting reference on eighteenth century cartography. weight: 0.6 lb.