De Beknopte Lant-Meet-Konst

Leerende in 't korte, alles wat in 't gemeen, in de Practijcke des Landt-metens voor-komen kan (...). Den tweeden druck: in vele plaetsen vermeerdert, en van voorgaende fauten gesuyvert. Hiet by gevoeght, het Tractaet van de Landt-maten, door J.P. Dou, ende C. Eversdijck (...). Door Mattheus van Nispen (...). Dordrecht, printed by Nicolaes de Vries, 1669, 2 parts in one volume, (16), 349,(1); (52) p., with engraved frontispiece, 2 title woodcuts and many woodcut figures in the text, contemporary overlapping vellum, small 8vo.

(Water)stained copy with old and modern owner's names in pen on the endpapers and old annotations concerning various "feet" on the final free endpaper, one quire tender; binding soiled and with light wear on spine. Early edition of this famous surveying treatise, the first edition of which apeared in 1661-1662. Many reprints would follow. The second part with our copy is a 1665 title edition. This Tractaet van de Roeden en Landmaten first appeared in 1629.