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LEIGH, Valentine. The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surveying of Landes, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes… London: [J. Kingston for] Andrew Maunsell, 1577.
8vo in fours (171 x 127 mm). Black letter (with roman and italic), numerous woodcut initials and diagrams in the text (lacking the 2 folding tables). (Some dampstaining at beginning, contemporary notation on title-page, some penciling to Q4v). Half 19th century morocco, marbled sides, gilt-lettering to spine (some small losses to head, light rubbing to extremities, renewed preliminary blanks laid in).
FIRST EDITION of Leigh’s scarce treatise on the science of surveying. ESTC S101106; STC 15416a.