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The gauger's practice: or, The practical way how to gauge and inch brewers-tuns; and the gauging of casks, according to the true rules of art. : With a table of cylinders in ale-gallons and centessemal parts, from 8 to 60 inches in diamiter, and 31 inches in depth. Calculated to every tenth of an inch in diamiter, and to every tenth of an inch in depth

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1693.
Call number: 434822
Creator: Ward, George(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 8vo
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