practical measuring made easy meanest de hoppus (50 resultados)

Condición: New. In.

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. 196pp Folding plate. Blind stamped boards rubbed and stained. (circa 1890) Size: 7.5" x 3".

Condición: New. In.

Hardback. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No DW. Reasonably clean tight text with frontispiece (a bit damp marked). Bound in old full leather with modern title label. Just a good working copy.

Condición: Good. 1833. New Edition. 216 pages. Fully bound in brown leather with gilt. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Appears tightly rebound at gutters. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Peeling and loss to leather elements. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. Hardback, contemporary calf, black morocco label to spine. 21cm x 8.5cm. lxix, 270pp. Contains half-title, with attestations on verso, title page, folding frontispiece and preface. A new edition revised by T. Crosby. Binding is slightly rubbed and worn, with cracking to outer joints, small loss to head of spine. Repaired tear to front free end-paper. A decent copy. (r34).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. lxxvi, 204p + folded plate. Original calf, worn, with back board detached and front board holding on one cord. Name and sums to front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. # AS PICTURED # HOPPUS'S MEASURER, Greatly Enlarged and Improved, with Extended TABLES OF SCANTLINGS, Not in Any Other Edition Extant, 1840. (Price 3s. bound). 18cms x 9cms. 215pp, of which final 5pp ads for Nesbit's Standard Works. Sewn binding still holding well, with boards loosening. Front pastedown has pencil : 'Jim Lee - Armitage Mills - Berry Brow - Nr Huddersfield'. Pencil calculations to rear eps. Clearly a working copy; very rubbed calf binding with traces of five gilt-stamped dividing rules to spine. Internally, evidence of handling throughout, although free from any other damage, and with only minor foxing stains. A characterful survivor. FREE P&P IN U.K. Non-UK buyers quoted Shipping cost before purchasing. (25% proceeds to the Motor Neurone Disease Association).

Tall 12mo. 208pp + fold-out frontispiece. Original morocco, decorated in blind and gilt. A very good copy. An early and attractive issue of the standard work which was still in use well into the 20th century.

xl, 205pp, many tables on tabbed pages, fold-out plate at front. 18x8, decorative green calf binding, Edges worn and rubbed, some surface loss on spine, binding cracking and some ancient tape repairs to the tabs, owner's name in ink on ffep. Hoppus was an early English surveyor who developed many techniques and skills for more accurate estimating of quantities required. His proposed unit "the Hoppus Cubic Foot" for estimating how much raw timber would be required for a specific volume of finished timber after processing and wastage, and was used in forestry until metrication (it was roughly 21% larger than a 'normal' cubic foot.There appear to be two John Smith versions, one from 1848 and one from 1861, each with identical pagination(WorldCat). There is no indication that this is a second impression or edition, so it assumed that it is the earlier version.

Gebunden. Condición: New.

Full-Leather. Condición: Fair. 15TH. A fair early copy of this famous measuring guide for builders by Hoppus, Surveyor to the Corporation of the London Assurance. His first practical measuring guide was published in 1736 and it continued through various editions after his death in 1739. This copy is in contemporary full leather binding - measuring 8 x 21 cms (height). The binding is complete but the boards are adrift. There is some wear to the boards but a straight-forward leather case repair would produce a very good copy. Contents: folding plate; title page; preface; table of contents; explanations and usage (i-lii); half title; tables 214pp; advert for Hawney's complete measurer. Contents generally very clean - fep is creased; small ownership signature to verso of table; brown toning to margins.

Hardback. Condición: V.g. a new Stereotype Edition. .By A New Set Of Tables Which Shew At Sight The Solid Content Of Any Piece Of Timber, Stone Etc Either Square, Round Or Unequal-sided, And The Value Of Any Pric.18x7cms. 212pp. Narrow octavo example. Folding engraved frontispiece [complete]. Original full calf with gilt bands to the spine. Spine calf split but intact. A workman's book but still clean and tight text with a worn binding.

Hardback. Condición: V.g. By A New Set Of Tables Which Shew At Sight The Solid Content Of Any Piece Of Timber, Stone Etc.xl, 205pp. Narrow 8mo. Pub. full red calf, gilt. Frontis. incomplete otherwise a fine copy with a fine binding, marbled edges.

Brown hardback leather cover. Condición: Good. New sterotype edition. G: in Good condition. Covers rubbed with some wear to corners and spine ends. Previous owner's ink name to front paste down. 180mm x 75mm (7" x 3"). 212pp. With folding engraved frontispiece.

21st edition. Poor copy in the original full aniline calf. Spine worn; spine bands and panel edges rubbed and bumped as with age. Boards worn. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 226 pp. : frontispiece ; 9 x 22 cm. Subjects; Measurement. 1 Kg.

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. HOPPUS, E. Practical Measuring made Easy to the Meanest Capacity, by a new set of tables. The tenth edition. Greatly improved. lxxvi, 204pp., half-title., folding plate. Some foxing, and also browning to the end-papers and paste-downs. Contemporary calf, raised bands. Some wear to the head of the spine and corners bumped. Ownership name of John Canwell, Oct 19 1764. (?) tall 12mo (in sixes). Printed by Assignment from the Trustees of E. Wicksteed. 1777.

21st edition. Poor copy in the original full aniline calf. Spine worn; spine bands and panel edges rubbed and bumped as with age. Boards worn. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 226 pp. : frontispiece ; 9 x 22 cm. Subjects; Measurement. 1 Kg.

Narrow 8vo. xxxvi, 212 pp. b/w folding frontispiece and line ill. "Solid content of any piece of timber. superficial content of boards. with a preface showing the excellence of this new method of measuring; and some curious observations concerning measuring of timber by several dimensions." Later edition of a book that had been in print for at least 100 years, testifying to its usefulness to carpenters, shipwrights, and the like. Folding frontispiece engraving showing timber and measurements is clean and intact. Text clean. Bound in original mottled calf.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 11th. Rebound in full calf with embossed decoration and rules, titles in gilt across spine, five raised bands across spine, faint sunning to spine, new end papers, discolouration to tile page with sympathetic repairs to same and occasionally elsewhere throughout, some worm predation and contemporary marginalia, foldout illustration in very good condition, lxxvi plus 204 pages. [QP].

Thirteenth Edition, greatly enlarged and improved. Narrow 8vo. (approx. 21 x 9cm) hardback in rebound in modern black roan with raised bands, gilt, to spine and with marbled endpapers. 204pp. plus a folding illustration. Previous owner's attractive bookplate to inside front cover. Foxing throughout, occasionally heavy, and a few small handling marks. A GOOD+ COPY. (Shelf 4) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Leather. Condición: Good Only. None Ilustrador. An revised and improved edition of Hoppus' Measurer. Containing various tables for measuring timber, stone, glass and anything made use of in building construction or repair. Revised by T. Crosby. E. Hoppus was an English surveyor who lent his name to the Hoppus, a unit of measurement to give the solid content and the value of any piece to timber, stone or other building material, square or round. In a full calf binding. Externally, a trifle rubbed with bumping to extremities. Joints cracked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright with occasional spotting. Small closed tear to fold out repaired with tape. Fold out slightly foxed. Good Only. book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. A very good example. Later brown full leather boards with gilt lining and lettering to spine on a red spine label. No half-title but unclear if one was called for. Folding frontispiece, complete and in good order. Textblock is in good condition, clean and tight. 226 pp + advert. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 344g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 031849:1-I2) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall Language: ENG 344 G. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 5th or later Edition. A well-used but still firmly bound copy of the sixth edition of this inter-generational pocket book.Free endpapers lost, various scribbled calculations on half-title and fixed endpapers. Lxxxvi + 204 pages (195-198 escaped sewing), one folding plate of timber measurement.Marginal tears to leaves187/8 and 203/4 Overall dimensions approx 200x90mm. Apparently first published only 25 years earlier in 1736 or soon after under its mature title but this copy is already the sixth edition.

Leather Binding. Condición: Fair. Fair, 18th century builder's pocketbook, oblong leatherbound, blue stain on bottom corner, wear and dampstain, front board detached fold out illustrations, 204 pages.

Half width large 12mo. xl +196 + (2)pp. 3 section fold out frontis. Publisher's red cloth covers, blind stamped art nouveau decorationto front & rear, gilt lettering on front & spine. Original white eps. Neat ink signature + " Stainton 1891 " inside front cover and repeated on fep. Covers : rubs top/bottom of spine & corners but bright. Contents : slight foxing to prelims else very clean & tight & unfoxed. Bright attractive copy. ***. VG.

Half width 8vo. xl +196pp. 3 section fold out frontis. Publisher's red cloth covers, blind stamped art nouveau decoration to front & rear, gilt lettering on front & spine. Original white eps. Covers : book slight lean, heavy rub top of spine & corners but bright. Contents : browning to eps else very clean & tight & unfoxed. Bright attractive copy. ***. VG.

Condición: Good. 1795. Hardback. Quite remarkably, Hoppus' Measurer was in use for over two hundred years until the advent of decimalisation, the last edition appearing in the 1950's. 204pp. 1 fold. plate. 20 x 8 cm. Old sheep, nicely rebacked, with raised bands, gilt cross-bands, red title-label, small tear at bottom front corner, good copy overall. . . . .

Half width 12mo. xl +205 + (1)pp. 3 section fold out frontis. Publisher's green cloth covers, blind stamped gothic floral decoration +lettering to front & rear, gilt lettering on spine. Marbled page edges. Original white eps. Covers : rubs top/bottom of spine + corners but bright. Contents : browning to eps else very clean & tight & unfoxed.Bright attractive copy. ***. VG.

Half width 12mo. (2) + 240pp. 3 section fold out frontis. Publisher's red cloth covers, blind stamped gothic floral decoration + lettering to front & rear, gilt lettering on spine. Original white eps. Marbled page edges. Covers : slight rubs top/bottom of spine but bright.Contents : browning to eps else very clean & tight & unfoxed. Bright attractive copy. ***. VG.