The surveyours perambulator, or, an engine, wherewith the surveyour may with much more perfectness, speed, and ease measure land then either with chain or pole : and wherewith he may travel a whole day, and at his journeys end, he shall have the length of the ground given him at an instant unto the hundredth part of a pole / by Martin Master, student in the mathematicks.
1661
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Title
The surveyours perambulator, or, an engine, wherewith the surveyour may with much more perfectness, speed, and ease measure land then either with chain or pole : and wherewith he may travel a whole day, and at his journeys end, he shall have the length of the ground given him at an instant unto the hundredth part of a pole / by Martin Master, student in the mathematicks.
Uniform title
Surveyours perambulator
Created/published
London : Printed by Robert and William Leybourn, and are to be sold by Will. Gilbertson, at the Bible in Giltspur-Street, anno 1661.
Description
[16], 71, [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 14 cm (12mo)
Associated name
Master, Martin, 1607- author.
Gaywood, Richard, active 1650-1680, illustrator, printmaker.
Gilbertson, William, -1665, bookseller.
Master, Martin, 1607- former owner.
Tomash, Erwin, former owner.
Macclesfield, Earls of, former owner.
R. & W. Leybourn (London, England), printer.
Gaywood, Richard, active 1650-1680, illustrator, printmaker.
Gilbertson, William, -1665, bookseller.
Master, Martin, 1607- former owner.
Tomash, Erwin, former owner.
Macclesfield, Earls of, former owner.
R. & W. Leybourn (London, England), printer.
Note
Signatures: A⁸ B-D¹².
Initial double leaf has an engraved portrait of the author on the left with caption "Vera effigies Dom. Martini Master, philom. Cantuariensis. Aetat suae 53 an., nat. 1607. R. Gaywood fecit 1660." On the right is a picture of the perambulator. Final folded plate is a throwout leaf with binder's instructions "Let this table and figure be placed at the end of the book, so that it may lie open to the eye when the book is shut."
Not in Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.)
Leaf A8 has an advertisement for mathematical instrument makers on the recto and errata on the verso.
Initial double leaf has an engraved portrait of the author on the left with caption "Vera effigies Dom. Martini Master, philom. Cantuariensis. Aetat suae 53 an., nat. 1607. R. Gaywood fecit 1660." On the right is a picture of the perambulator. Final folded plate is a throwout leaf with binder's instructions "Let this table and figure be placed at the end of the book, so that it may lie open to the eye when the book is shut."
Not in Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.)
Leaf A8 has an advertisement for mathematical instrument makers on the recto and errata on the verso.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue, R509020
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London, -- publication place.
Item Details
Call number
270- 337q
Folger-specific note
Corrections made in manuscript, with additional corrections made in the text and added to the errata, suggesting this was the author's own copy. Double plate shaved. Anonymous armorial bookplate (motto: Sapere aude) of the Earls of Macclesfield, with manuscript shelfmark and label of the "South Library" with shelfmark. Blind embossed Macclesfield shield. Bookplate: Erwin Tomash. In early mottled leather (calf) inboard binding with gold filleting and tooling; red leather spine label; marbled endpapers. Acquired from Sotheby's auction of the Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing (2018-09-18/19:407). Purchase made possible by The Kathrine Dulin Folger and Family Acquisitions Endowment.
Folger accession
270337