Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782, An appendix to the New art of surveying , [between 1775 and 1780?]
- Title(s):
An appendix to the New art of surveying : containing a new construction of a pantagraph, which renders it of universal use in reducing or enlarging plans, drawings, pictures, portraits, &c. in copies bearing any required proportion to the original / by B. Martin.
- Published/Created:
- London : Printed for, and sold by the author, no. 171, Fleet-Street, [between 1775 and 1780?]
- Physical Description:
- [2], 13, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsNC1920 M3View by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/205098
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Date from advertisement, [1] p. at end, which lists the author's Microscopium pantometricum. According to ESTC this title was published ca. 1780. Milburn, Benjamin Martin, 1976, dates both works ca. 1775.
Plate engraved by W. Whitchurch.
A pantograph manufactured by Benjamin Martin (closely resembling the instrument depicted in the frontispiece to the present work) is also in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art. See link herewith.
English short title catalogue, N30316 - Subject Terms:
- Drawing instruments -- 18th century.Pantograph.Perspective -- 18th century.Surveying -- 18th century.
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