Rare Books

A text book of geometrical drawing, : for the use of mechanics and schools, in which the definitions and rules of geometry are familiarly explained, the practical problems are arranged from the most simple to the more complex, and in their description technicalities are avoided as much as possible; with illustrations for drawing plans, sections and elevations of buildings and machinery: an introduction to isometrical drawing, and an essay on linear perspective and shadows: the whole illustrated with fifty-six steel plates, containing over two hundred diagrams