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1912rif. PHOT0871Halle, Knapp 1912. gr.-8°. VIII, 245 S., 108 Abbildungen u. graph. Darst. im Text. HLn. d. Zt., ausgeschiedenes Bibl.-Expl. mit den entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen, Titelbl. etwas stockfl., ansonsten gut erhalten. Albrecht Meydenbauer (1834-1921), deutscher Bauingenieur und neben Aimé Laussedat der Begründer der Photogrammetrie, insbesondere der Architektur-Photogrammetrie. M. erreichte 1885 die Gründung der Messbild-Anstalt für Denkmal-Aufnahmen, die Staatliche Bildstelle Berlin. Diese war die erste photogrammetrisch arbeitende Dienststelle der Welt. M. schuf damit ein Denkmäler-Archiv, das noch heute als das größte fotogrammetrische Kulturgüterarchiv angesprochen wird.
1589rif. 7573CBVenedig, Per Francesco Franceschi, 1589. Kl.-4°. 143 (von 145) Bl., (3) Bl. Mit 2 gef. Tafeln and more than 145 Holzschnitte im Text. Pappband der Zeit, mit Kleisterpapierbezug. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +
1895rif. 4834DBZürich, Museumsgesellschaft Zürich, 1895. 8°. 166 S., mit vielen ganzseitigen Abbildungen. Halbleinenband mit handschriftlichem Bibliotheks-Rückenschild. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, 4834DB|4834DB_2 [2 Warenabbildungen]
1928rif. 32330New York: McGraw-Hill Book Comp. 1928. Mit 18 Taf. u. 54 Fig. i. Text. XVI, 1 Bl., 401 S. OLeinen m. Rückenvergold. 18x11 cm.
1858rif. 135295Roma. Tipografia della Rev. Camera Apostolica 1858. (6), 197, (1) pages and 6 (3 folded) plates in steel engraving. Harc cover binding with spine lettering. (A little rubbes. Paper partially spotted. Title with library stamp). 30x22 cm
1928rif. 23564New York: McGraw-Hill Book Comp. 1928. Mit zahlr. Abb. XXIX, 1016 S. Roter OLEinenbd. m. Goldpräg. 20x13 cm.
1788rif. 95621BBParis, Gandouin e.a., 1788. Kl.-8°. xvi, 491, [81] p. avec title et frontisp. in gravure sur bois et quelques figures geometrique dans la texte. Ldr. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. Rückenschild u. reicher floraler Rückenverg. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de plus 190 pages...
1941rif. 3877Kyiv 1941. Very good. Together 2 views 205 x 325 mm; 8" x 13" printed on cheap thin paper Ad 1: long closed tear through image without loss light staining creasing edges a little frayed; Ad 2: short closed tears along edges two small holes in blank area at lower left light staining. Overall in very condition suitable for exhibition and study. Tragically topical apparently unrecorded views of Kyiv being rude field printings on cheap paper likely created by Nazis during the so-called "First Battle" of Kiev Aug. 23 - Sept. 26 1941 or shortly thereafter. We are mindful that the present views are historically "toxic" but given the context of the current Russian war-crimes against the people of the Ukraine we believe that there is an urgent need for them to be preserved. The first print is a view of Kyiv looking at the city center from the south specifically from the wooded hill of Lysa Hora which had a complex fortification system. During the German occupation the fort became a military plant and tank base. Here Kyiv rises above the Dnipro river on the right. The key below identifies 22 sites mostly of military significance such as buildings bridges power plants hospitals factories churches and cloisters. To each site is assigned a code consisting of a letter or letters and a numeral or numerals: these are certainly map references i.e. K10 L10 F-G7 etc. We have been unable to locate this exact map but large bird's-eye maps of Kyiv taken by the Vermessungs- und Karten-Abteilung survive in the Kiev Polytechnic Museum and also the David Rumsey Collection. That a need for vantage-point views such as ours to accompany such a map seems self-evident. The second is a view of Kyiv taken from the Great Lavra Bell Tower in the Pechersk Lavra monastery strategically positioned in the city center looking towards the Dnieper Valley in the northeast. The key identifies 13 sites likewise militarily important but with the notable inclusion of the "Podol Judenstadt" no. 6 a Jewish neighborhood to the north of the city. Our prints may date before Nov. 3 1941 because on this day just two months into the German occupation of Kyiv a huge explosion brought down the Uspensky Sobor cathedral in the Pechersk Lavra monastery across the courtyard from the Bell Tower from which the present view was drawn. The "Motorized Surveying and Map Detachment" was an integral part of the German military and accompanied the army throughout the European and North African theater. These surveyors photographers and printers traveled with equipment to the front lines sometimes on special trains. The detachments were self-contained and had the capability to print onsite even in the most hostile conditions. Ephemeral views such as the present pair were printed in small numbers for the sole use of German occupying troops. The present prints were purchased by a Munich bookseller from a private collector in Germany along with other documents from the period. NOTA BENE: These prints were both purchased at an auction in Germany in early January 2021 i.e. BEFORE the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24 2022. unknown books
1731rif. 223283London: Printed for A Bettesworth and C. Hitch . and W. Innys 1731. The Fourth Edition. Diagrams. xx 196 16 4 36 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf red leather spine label. Boards missing else clean. Signed Wm. G. Barrows. Brunswick Maine Dec. 16 1882. The Fourth Edition. Diagrams. xx 196 16 4 36 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed for A Bettesworth and C. Hitch ... and W. Innys unknown books
1792rif. 20097Paris: . Firmin Didot 1792. Third Revised Edition. Full contemporary calf. Very good; some wear to the binding. 8vo xvi 1 - 272 pp. 5 folding tables 6 engraved folding plates frontispiece. Indicative of the growing professionalism of the officer corps of European armies Dupain de Montesson's book informs and advises readers of all the technology and science of map making and terrain calculations. The book in print since the 1760s underwent considerable revision with each edition. ... Firmin Didot unknown books
1759rif. 5305Frankfurt & Leipzig: H L Broenner 1759. First Edition. Full contemporary calf raised bands. Very good; spotting throughout. 4to 16 1 - 304 312 correct pp. 24 engraved plates Boehm was a professor of mathematics at the Univ. of Giessen. The book offered here is handbook and manual for surveying accompanied by two appendices that are devoted to surveying over water and underground mine surveying tailored to special needs e.g. driving air shafts. The latter subjects are appended to the text as they pertain to a complete understanding of the science of surveying and were of particular practical use. Boehm's other published books are all in the field of military science artillery etc. and his comments in the Messkunst associate it with his other published work. He appears to have been particularly well informed on the literature of the subject that includes French publications and technically quite adept. He offers suggestions on the construction of special use instruments and apologizes for the omission of any mention of certain kinds of instruments by explaining that they were inaccurate and of little use. In all an excellent treatise on surveying and map making. Poggendorff I 222. H L Broenner hardcover books
1880rif. 5842Troy NY: W & L E Gurley Co. 1880. Later Edition. Original publisher's printed wrappers. A very good copy; short tear in front wrapper no loss; some hand soiling not offensive. 8vo. There is a large fldg. frontis. and text illus. throughout. One of the company's catalogs of selected instruments that were being sold at reduced prices. There is a large folding frontispiece of a light mountain transit. The catalog is 56 pages and is represented by the firm as including the latest improvements in its line of instruments. See Romaine. W & L E Gurley Co. unknown books
1816rif. 5914Washington DC: William Davis 1816. First Edition. Contemporary half leather. Very good; backstrip powdering; overall toning. Chancery folio I - 8 pp. 2 folding charts; II Indians - 2 3 - 128 pp. 5 folding charts; III Hassler - 4 5 - 10 2 pp. 3 folding charts. The original report by Hassler of his 'buying' trip to Europe in 1811. Hassler was commissioned by Jefferson to undertake the first coast survey. To this end Congress appropriated $50000 for the purchase of instruments. Hassler travelled to Europe but arrived during the wars and was delayed for years. Upon his return this report was issued by the Treasury Dept. that detailed his expenditures for scientific instruments and books as well as chronometers. All the devices makers cost specifications etc. are listed in the report offered here. Hassler's account is bound up with two other Treasury Dept. reports of the same year - separately issued - that provide information on the expenses of the Indian Department and general and particular information on trade with the Indian nations. DSB VI 165-166; DAB VIII 385-386; Poggendorff I 1031. William Davis hardcover books
1891rif. List2113Huron 1891. Albumen photograph measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Some fading very good overall. A scarce and possibly image from the post-statehood Surveyor-General's office. Surveying in the Dakota Territory and in the early statehood period was quite difficult due to the terrain and the abundance of privately held mining claims. This photograph shows an early South Dakota office led by General B.H. Sullivan. Included in the picture is Miss Eva Jackson the Assistant Transcribing Clerk. unknown books
1850rif. List1929California 1850. With thirteen letters most multi-page written from Monterey in 1850 a 7 pp facsimile transcription of a 1834 Mexican land grant on cloth measuring 11 x 14 inches and and eleven page document on paper in Spanish relating to a Monterey land grant transcribing an 1841 document. Letters heavily worn with some loss at margins but mostly legible land grant in good to very good condition transcribed document in Spanish in fair condition with water damage to margins. Fair. An interesting archive of 1850s-era material relating to the life and career of the surveyor Edward Williams which recently surfaced in the central mother lode region. The group includes his personal letters from the California Gold Rush as well as well two interesting documents form his work for the Surveyor General J.W. Mandeville in 1858 where he transcribed two Mexican land grants. Lt. Edward Williams was a member of Company E New York Volunteers under Capt. Nelson Taylor. He came to California around 1847 and found employment as a deputy surveyor later working for the Office of the Surveyor General of the Unites States for California. In 1858 Surveyor General J.W. Mandeville commissioned a report on Mexican-era California Land Grants. Mandeville had Williams copy the original documents exactly - inclusive of an ink copy on linen that is an "exact tracing" of the original documents starting with 1834 up through about 1840. These "copies" were submitted to the Surveyor General in 1858 for use in the report. Williams continued the title work by copying other documents from about 1841 though this time not as a tracing but hand copied on the usual blue paper of the 1850s. The documents illustrate the length officials went to while they investigated Mexican Land Grant titles to California properties in the 1850s. The process was difficult and involved two distinctly separate cultures and legal systems that clearly conflicted. The Mexican Government granted rights for these large land parcels in California to various people but clearly stated they could not sell parts of the property. The wording was used many times in litigation of the period in both defense of the land grants and in opposition to how the land grants were handled. The issues were actually quite simple in that the Mexican legal standards for land grants was far different from those in the United States and the two differing forms of written land ownership and use clashed. These documents reflect a parcel of land granted to Francisco Mesa at "Corral de Tierra" a large parcel in Monterrey County California. Mesa had requested land for "his personal use and that of his family." In the Grant the title papers reflect "while the land is under Francisco's possession it cannot be divided mortgaged or a levy placed on it nor handed down." These original documents help illustrate the complex story of Mexican Land Grants in California. Also included are thirteen letters from Ed aka "Ned" to various family members primarily his mother and sister Alice and vice versa. About half are from Ed the other half are written to him. The dates of the letters are; 1850: February 10th April 15th April 16th April 28th June 10th July 30th October 11th and November 17th and 1851: September 9th. One undated letter with heavy loss is written from Panama. The letters are generally readable but the condition far from perfect with water stains throughout and chips abundant along edges and significant textual loss. The letters are generally at least two pages sometimes four or more inclusive of writing in the crossed line custom to save paper. Most are datelined at Monterrey where he discusses the people the customs setting and more. Despite the condition flaws there is much to be gleaned from his correspondence. In his April 15 1850 letter . he describes his trip to San Juan Bautista from Monterrey in detail while he was on his way to San Francisco. Williams writes of his great pleasure on tasting cooked beef by the Indians that he found was the best he ever tasted as they camped on the way to San Jose with the ultimate goal Mission Dolores in San Francisco: “this the beef they put on the embers of the fire and broiled it - I never tasted anything like it before so tender so juicy…” One of his first notes on San Francisco: "There are regular streets filled with all kinds of sorts of stores… The shipping covers the water as far as you can see. And those nearest the shore are converted into store houses the rigging being taken down and the and holes cut in the sides for doors.The best houses in town are occupied by gamblers . a large saloon filled with tables on which are played all kinds of games of chance - at some of the tables are displayed immense amounts of coin and gold in lumps worth from 1 to 5000 dollars which some poor infatuated fool of a miner has at some time lost to them." In his letter of April 16th he discusses both his difficulties with women in California and his lack of fitting in back east: “The Spanish Girls are very nice and all that sort of thing but the trouble is to find one that is educated. I can’t bear an uneducated wom an and I think I shall have to come to N.Y. and bring one out here… I know one or two in N.Y. but I don’t believe they would have such an uncouth specimen of an ‘hombre’ as me…” In his next letter he describes Carmel in detail. He states: “I haven’t been to the mines nor have I any inclination to go” though he intends to settle in California permanently. In his next letter he discusses the people he’s met and how he detests the anglophone community there: “How do I like the People Those of Spanish whom I call my friends I love with all my soul - there is not much society except among them… the Eng. and Am. population I detest from the bottom of my heart. This may sound strange but you will know the por que when you arrive.” He then praises the climate and scenery of Monterey. One letter written from Panama which has unfortunately sustained heavy losses at margins offers some details of the trip on the Chagres River. The replies to Williams from his family offer details on life in New York and are similarly compromised in condition but overall there is enough to glean from the group to provide a detailed example of family correspondence from the period. Overall a very interesting and unusual archive of a young professional who moved to California during the Gold Rush period and rejected the Anglophone mining community with particular interest to historians of Monterey and of the systems of land grants that shaped Mexican and American land policy in the nineteenth century. unknown books
1931rif. 285642Chicago: Dietzgen 1931. hardcover. very good-. Color frontispiece of Chicago factory; text illustrations. 520pp. 8vo green cloth rear cover lightly spotted. Chicago: Dietzgen. 1928. Samples of drawing & tracing papers affixed to inside front cover; price list in back envelope is missing. Dietzgen unknown books
1928rif. 285641Chicago: Dietzgen 1928. hardcover. very good. Color frontispiece of Chicago factory; text illustrations. 489pp. 8vo green cloth spine ends a bit worn. Chicago: Dietzgen. 1928. Booklet with prices insert in envelope inside back cover; samples of drawing & tracing papers affixed to inside front cover. Dietzgen unknown books
rif. 639640 leaves the final blank. Small folio 332 x 210 mm. orig. paste-paper boards spine & extremities somewhat worn uncut. Clausthal: ca. 1815. A fine and legible manuscript instructional manual on techniques and problems of mine surveying. The text is divided into five chapters: “Von der Vorbereitung zum Markscheiden” “On preparations for measuring the area in which mining may be carried out” “Von Bennenung der Gänge und Klüfte” “On the naming of seams and fissures” “Vom Observiren” “On Observations” “Vom Vermaß oder Verbestimmung eines Grubenfelds” “On measuring and defining a mining claim” and “Von Wasserfällen Wasserleitungen und Tiefbau” “On waterfalls water conduits and underground mining”. This manuscript was probably prepared in 1815 — plate X has the entry “Markscheide 1.7.15“ — at the newly founded mining school at Clausthal the famous mining town of the Harz Mountains in Lower Saxony the fine plates name mining locations in the area. The most attractive plates — all of which contain a number of figures — depict mine shafts mine surveying methods cartographical considerations techniques of prospecting and identification of mineral deposits problems of ownership rights and the constant problems of flooding. All the plates are finely drawn in black ink and have been heightened in grey blue pink and yellow wash. Internally fine. Stamp of Georg Riemschneider 1888-1946 “Oberbergrat” of Clausthal-Zellerfeld. unknown books
rif. 2805Manuscript 4to. 23.5 x 17.5 cm 2 ff. pencil sketch of arms Marlborough and blank 196 ff. and with 27 drawn folding plates many of which are colored. Bound in contemporary French calf spine gilt in six decorative compartments with title on letterpiece. Excellent with all plates drawn and many some colored in a very professional hand. Very attractive early 18th-century French illustrated manuscript of practical geometry in seven books including individual sections on longimetry planimetry and stereometry—the fundamentals of precision surveying and draftsmanship. The manuscript closely follows but is not identical to Jacques Ozanam's Géométrie Pratique du sr Boulenger Paris 1684 which itself was a revision of La Géométrie pratique Paris 1640 by the mathematician Jean Boulenger. Though the work was reprinted well into the 18th C the present volume seems to follow Ozanam's 1693 edition most closely. Ozanam's book however lacks the drawn and colored figures of the present volume many of which are quite elaborate. The facade of Notre Dame is shown in an exercise for calculating the height of a wall and a segment on proportion features detailed miniature maps of the Brittany coastline identifying towns such as St. Malo and Mont St. Michel. The manuscript exemplifies the early 18th C approach to applied trigonometry—a field that by the mid-17th C was starting to resemble an exact science. Book II defines the common functions sine cosine secant etc.; Book V treats longimetric puzzles such as determining the height of a mountain or a spire or measuring the length of bodies of water; the final two books treat planimetry and stereometry including applied trigonometry—calculating the volumes of real bodies i.e. barrels pipes etc. Those sections of the manuscript that do not appear in Géométrie Pratique—mainly a tract on logarithms and a discussion of surveying instruments—also fall within Ozanam's oeuvre as he published a monograph on compasses in 1673 and a book of logarithmic tables and trigonometric functions in 1685. Jacques Ozanam 1640-1717 was best known for his Récréations mathematiques Paris 1694 which "may be regarded as the forerunner of modern books on mathematical recreations." In addition to Boulenger's work he also revised that of Adriaan Vlacq 1600-1667 and the Jesuit mathematician Claude-François Milliet Dechalles. DSB.10 pp.263-265. [France, early 18th century]. books
2014rif. mon0000000307National Council of Examiners fo 2014. perfect. Acceptable. 0.4 11 9. moderate wear to cover; sticker on front cover; light pencil marks on pages perfect National Council of Examiners fo unknown
2013rif. 1-1932613676National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying 2013. Paperback. New. 9.1 edition. 292 pages. 11.00x8.20x0.80 inches. National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying paperback
2014rif. 1-1932613749National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying 2014. Paperback. New. 96 pages. 11.20x9.00x0.50 inches. National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying paperback
1770rif. 59178France Paris Undated around 1770. Folio. 425 x 28 cm. Loose sewn 4 by 4 leaves in portfolio with ties. Title-page and 9 pp. written in a fine large legible hand but unidentified in brown ink. Having 5 No 1-5 manuscript maps and plans in double folio with some hand-colouring. On good thick paper clean and fine. unknown
1805rif. 45129London W. Bulmer and Co. 1805. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1805. With titlepage to Phil. Transactions Part I. Pp. 186-197. Having also the titlepage to the volume Part II 1805. A few scattered brownspots and very faint browning to outer margins otherwise fine and wide-margined. A small stamp to verso of titlepage. First printing of probably the first work to discover and correct for the errors of the compass caused by the iron in ships by the first circumnavigator of Australia."Captain Matthew Flinders RN 16 March 1774 - 19 July 1814 was one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years he sailed with Captain William Bligh circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent which had previously been known as New Holland. He survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned for violating the terms of his scientific passport by changing ships and carrying prohibited papers. He identified and corrected the effect upon compass readings of iron components and equipment on board wooden ships and he wrote what may be the first work on early Australian exploration A Voyage to Terra Australis."Wikepedia unknown
rif. SONG0976599104ACSM 0000-00-00. Revised Edition. paperback. Used: Good. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. ACSM paperback