@article{522721,
      recid = {522721},
      author = {Davis, William,},
      title = {A complete treatise of land surveying, by the chain,  cross, and offset staffs only. In three parts, Viz. Part I.  Teaches all the useful Definitions and Problems in  Geometry, requisite in Land Surveying: likewise Plain  Trigonometry, with its Application in Measuring  inaccessible Heights and Distances. Part II. How to Measure  with the Chain, only assisted as above, and cast up the  Dimensions thereof by the Pen alone, with the Method to  Plan all kinds of Inclosures: likewise to Survey an Estate,  Manor, &c. by the same Instruments; with the invaluable  Method of casting up the Dimensions by the Pen, and  afterwards to Plan, Map, and Embellish the same. Also,  sheweth the Method to Measure Woods, Water, or any  inaccessible Grounds whatsoever with the Method of dividing  and laying out Land, reducing Plots, &c. Part III. The  Practical Method of Measuring Hayricks, Marl Pits, and  Timber; also all kinds of Artificer's Work---the Manner of  taking Dimensions with the customary Additions and  Deductions; likewise the Method of Levelling or Conveying  of Water from one Place to another. The whole explained in  a clear and perspicuous Manner. By William Davis, Author of  the Use of the Globes, Lately Published, and Member of the  Philosophical Society, London. [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {printed for the author, and sold by Faulder, Bond Street;  Elmsley, Strand; Egerton's Military Library, Charing Cross;  H.D. Symonds, and W. Baynes, Paternoster Row; Wright,  Piccadilly; Lackington and Co. Finsbury Square; Lunn,  Oxford Street, and at his warehouse, Cambridge; Pearson,  High Street, Birmingham; M. Pool and son, Chester; and  Wood, Shrewsbury,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {xvi, [1], 4-283, [3] p., plates :},
      year = {1798},
      note = {The final three pages contain errata, directions to the  binder, and an advertisement. },
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/522721},
}