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- A key to the solar compass, and surveyor's companion : comprising all the rules necessary for use in the field ... / by William A. Burt, U.S. Deputy Surveyor
A key to the solar compass, and surveyor's companion : comprising all the rules necessary for use in the field ... / by William A. Burt, U.S. Deputy Surveyor
Object Details
- Notes
- "Also, description of the linear surveys, and public land system of the United States, and notes on the barometer, suggestions for an outfit for a survey of four months, etc. etc."
- "[E]ntered according to act of Congress, in the year 1854 ..." --Verso of title page.
- Frontispiece signed: B.P. Wilme del. et sculp., 15 Featherstone Buildings, Holborn, London.
- "Traverse table, showing the difference of latitude and departure for distances between 1 and 100, and for angles to quarter degrees ... and natural signs and tangents" --Page [1], 2nd group.
- Advertisement on final page: "For sale by William A. Burt, Mount Vernon, Mich. ... William J. Young, mathematical and optical instrument maker, no. 33 North Seventh Street, McAllister & Brother, importers and dealers in mathematical, optical, and philosophical instruments, no. 194 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia."
- SCDIRB has two copies.
- SCDIRB copy 1 (39088002645125) has a lengthy inscription handwritten in ink on the front paste-down endpaper, "To Philip Burt Fisher from his father Elstner Fisher, June 11th, 1905. This book was given to me by your grandfather Wells Burt in the early fall of 1887 ...."
- SCDIRB copy 1 has an old black leather cover with folding front flap and loop clasp, with a hidden pocket tucked along the fore-edge and a long cylindrical holder for a pen or pencil.
- SCDIRB copy 2 (39088006324297) has a black buckram library binding with gilt lettered spine. Stamp on verso of title page: Smithsonian Library.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Date
- 1858
- Call number
- QB105 .B97 1858
- QB105.B97 1858
- author
- Burt, William Austin 1792-1858
- illustrator
- Wilme, B. P (Benjamin P.)
- publisher
- Young, William S (Publisher)
- former owner
- Burt, Wells 1820-1887 DSI
- inscriber
- Fisher, Elstner 1853-1909 DSI
- former owner
- Fisher, Philip Burt 1887- DSI
- Fisher, Philip Burt 1927- DSI
- Type
- Books
- Physical description
- 84, 118, [1] pages : illustrations, tables ; 17 cm
- Title
- Surveyor's companion
- Solar compass
- Topic
- Solar compass
- Surveying
- Record ID
- siris_sil_305378
- Usage
- CC0
