ADAMS, George. Geometrical and Graphical Essays, containing a general description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil, and military surveying, levelling, and perspective, London: by J. Dillon, sold by W. & S. Jones, 1797, 2 volumes in one, 8°, second edition, engraved frontispiece, 34 folding plates (frontispiece dampstained, lower margin of some text leaves affected by damp, clean deep tear along fold of plate 2, outer margin of plate 3 soiled and brittle, plate 32 torn in two halves), contemporary tree calf gilt armorial of the Inner Temple Library to front cover (rebacked and recorned, rubbed).