NISPEN, Mattheus van.

De Beknopte Lant-Meet-Konst. Leerende in `t korte, alles wat in `t gemeen, in de practijcke des landt-metens voor-komen kan... In goede ordre gestelt, en met noodige figuyren en demonstratien verklaert.Dordrecht, Mattheus van Nispen (colophon Nicolaes de Vries), 1662.WITH: DOU, Jan Pietersz. Tractaet van de Roeden en Landtmaten, door Hollandt, Zeelandt ende andere daer ontrent leggende plaetsen gebruyklick: ... Mitsgaders het Tractaetje van de Landtmaten gemaakt door C. Fr. Eversdyk, ... Van nieuws gedruckt en met eenige dingen ter saken dienende vermeerdert. Door M. van Nispen, ...Dordrech...

(12), 304, (2), (2 blank); (48) pp. Bierens de Haan 3579 & 3580 (cf. 1224 & 1379); Harmsen, Beknopte Lant-Meet-Kunst 19.1 & 19.2 (pp. 49-52); OCLC WorldCat. (10 & 0 copies); STCN (7 & 5 copies).First edition of a seventeenth-century instruction book on surveying, including detailed instruction in mensuration and practical geometry. Bound with it is the first edition of Van Nispen's revision of Dou's 1629 work on mensuration, with a new appendix by Eversdyk (with its own part-title: "Tractaet van Roeden ende Landtmaten"), and with comparative tables of units of measure in different parts of the Netherlands. Van Nispen (1628?-1717) was a mathematician and certified surveyor who worked for the local authorities and as a private teacher, but he also worked as a bookseller and publisher. The first work explicity notes that it is intended for students, young practicioners and anyone who deals with land merchants. In the second edition Van Nispen notes that he wrote it as a study aid for his own students. Although editions after 1669 were usually bound with the Tractaet van de Roeden en Landtmaten, the present 1662 edition is more often found alone.A good copy. A valuable window into the practices of mid-seventeenth century surveying and practical geometry.

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