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Belknap & Hamersley; Cooke & Co., Hartford; New York: 1835., 1835 pp. 160, 112. Illustrated with diagrams and drawings. Some damp stain and age stain. Early Lititz ownership. Small loss on front paste down. 12mo. 190 mm. Original full roan binding. Original gold lettered leather spine label. Hardbound. Very good copy. SCIENCE BOX 1 0.0. Hardcover.

Hartford, CT: Belknap and Hamersley, 1844. 8vo. 160; 112 pp. Numerous woodcut engraved diagrams, figures. Contemporary full speckled calf, speckled fore-edges, tan & gilt morocco spine label (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing, occasional light foxing), still an excellent copy. Third edition, revised & expanded, of this popular American treatise on surveying published originally in 1804 would continue to be updated and revised for over half a century. An edition of Abel Flint’s work was one of the two consulted by Abraham Lincoln while he studied to become a surveyor, as it emphasized higher math, including logarithms, plane geometry, and trigonometry.