A Treatise on the Application of Marine Surveying & Hydrometry to the Practice of Civil Engineering

Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1842. The uncommon 1842 1st edition. Solid and VG in its bevelled, chocolate-brown boards, with very light chipping along the outer hinges and the spine crown. 13 full-page plates (including large fold-out plate opposite the first page of text) plus a number of figures and tables. According to the author in his Preface, this is likely the first published work on the subject of marine surveying and hydrometry in the practice of civil engineering.