La Pratique universelle de l'arpenterie..., contenant l'explication de parfaitement Mesurer, Arpenter, Toiser, Aulner & prendre le plant de la superfice [sic] de tous corps & figures de telles formes qu'ils soient. Paris, Henry Thierry, 1585. In-4, granite half calf with small vellum corners, spine decorated, red title page (modern binding in the old taste).
First edition, with figures in the text, of this treatise on surveying by Jacques Chauvet, a mathematician of Champagne origin who died at the very beginning of the 17th century.
Handwritten bookplate on the title dated 1681, partly crossed out, of a student in geography.
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