This boke sheweth the maner of measurynge of all maner of lande: as well of woodlande, as of lande in the felde, and comptynge the true nombre of acres of the-same [sic]. Newlye inuented and compyled by Syr Rycharde Benese Chanon of Marton Abbay besyde Lond on [sic]. [With a preface by Thomas Paynell.]
[London]: Prynted in Southwarke in Saynt Thomas hospitall, by me James Nicolson, [1537]. First edition of “the first English textbook on geometrical land-measurement and surveying” (Buisseret, p. 39), an outstanding copy untouched in its original binding, and extremely rare thus. Benese’s Maner of Measurynge All Maner of Lande marks an..... More
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