Verdadera práctica de las resoluciones de la geometría sobre las tres dimensiones para un perfecto architecto : con una total resolución para medir y dividir la planimetría para los agrimensores.
by GARCIA BERRUGUILLA, Juan
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1747. GARCIA BERRUGUILLA, Juan. Verdadera Práctica de las Resoluciones de la Geometría sobre las tres Dimensiones para un perfecto Architecto: con una total Resolución para medir y dividir la Planimetría para los Agrimensores. Title, [30], 135 pp., illustrated with 18 folding engraved plates. 8vo, 225 x 150 mm., bound in contemporary vellum. Madrid: En la Imprenta de Lorenzo Francisco Mojados, 1747. First edition of this rare and richly illustrated manual on applied geometry for the use of architects and land surveyors. It also deals extensively with the instruction of drawing architectural plans and perspective. The book consists of six short treatises, each dealing with a given problem and its solution, all nicely illustrated with 18 engraved plates. OCLC lists just two copies in the U.S. at Columbia and John Carter Brown. Some scattered, minor marginal wear and staining, plate 15 with some repairs, overall a fine, unsophisticated copy.
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- Verdadera práctica de las resoluciones de la geometría sobre las tres dimensiones para un perfecto architecto : con una total resolución para medir y dividir la planimetría para los agrimensores.
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- GARCIA BERRUGUILLA, Juan
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- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1747
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