Workman, Benjamin Gauging Epitomized. Or, A Short Treatise of Gauging, In which that Branch is rendered familiar to the meanest Capacity. To Which Are Added, Accurate Tables for finding the Mean-Diameters of Casks by Inspection. Also, A comprehensive Ullage Table, and an accurate Method of of Ullaging Casks, by an easy Rule adapted to it. The whole illustrated wi... Philadelphia, Printed and Sold by W. Young, 1788. first edition, octavo, [4], 120 pp., contemporarycalf boards, re-backed with recent leather spine, re-cased with new endpapers, else a very good copy. The first book on mensuration by an American, and according to Hindle, is one of the earliest American books concerned with scientific instruments. Evans 21618; Rink, Technical Americana, 870 Price: USD 650.00 other currencies   order no. 41    inquire

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