Traite du nivellement / par M. l'abbe Picard... ; avec une relation raisonnee de divers nivellemens, & une exposition abregee de la mesure de la terre, par le meme auteur; ouvrage posthume, primitivement public par M. de la Hire ...

By: Picard, M. (Jean), 1620-1682.
Contributor(s): Para Du Phanjas, Francois, 1724-1797, 1724-1797. Essai sur le nivellement.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: A Paris : Chez L. Cellot, & Jombert Fils Jeune ..., 1780Edition: Nouvelle edition / corrigee, rectifiee, & enrichie d'un petit traite a part sur le meme objet, en forme de supplement & de developpement: par l'auteur de la Theorie des etres sensibles.Description: 212,227, [1](blank), 231-336(i.e.236), VII folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.Subject(s): Leveling -- Early works to 1800 | Geodesy -- Early works to 1800
Production Credits: Edited by Francois Para Du Phanjas whose Essai sur le nivellement has separate t.p. and pagination.
List(s) this item appears in: Versailles books
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Book (Not for loan) Science Museum Wroughton Library Store: Rare Books O.B. PIC PICARD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan 9900113647

Errors in pagination, p.236 misnumbered as 336.

Edited by Francois Para Du Phanjas whose Essai sur le nivellement has separate t.p. and pagination.

Signature of 'F Flounder' to front flyleaf; unidentified.

Bound in mottled calf leather on pasteboard with gilted spine. Gilted line to board edges, page fore-edges mottled red. Marbled pastedowns.

Red Science Museum Library stamp to title page, dated 24/05/1984.

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