Author: Pickering, George James B Robinson:
Title: Handwork And Geography: Being Suggestions For A Study of Geographical Principles Based On Observations Made In The Home District. Part 1.
Description: London, Pitman, no date Foreword by J A Green, H/B dec. red cloth bds, Good+, gen. lighg age-darkening, contents mainly clean and tight, pge 15 has small pencil boxes drawn, small cross at No. 1 of contents, pp 101 + Handwork series at rear, neat name and address on front pastedown. Chapters include: Plans and Scales; Simple Field Sketching; Chain and Cross Staff Survey; Direction; Measuring Angles in a Horizontal Plane and In a Vertical Plane; ...With a Thodolite; ... and Oblique Planes; Preliminary Exercises On Ordnance Survey Maps and Enlarging and Reducing Maps.

Keywords: geography map making plans scales maps angles measuring horizontal vertical oblique planes theodolite contours contouring scale field sketching chain cross staff survey direction compas pole star