Kurze und deutlich Anleitung zum Feldmeßen für die Jugend

Nürnberg: C. Weigel and A.G. Schneider, 1782. Contemporary speckled half-sheep and speckled pastepaper boards (surface abraded along the lower and outer edges), spine and yellow paper label gilt, 2 in gilt in the top compartment, red edges.

First Edition of this practical, well-organized, and successful illustrated juvenile on surveying, mapping, plane geometry, copying, scaling drawings, etc. An enlarged edition appeared under a new title in 1797 and again in 1808. Mayer also wrote on architecture, commercial arithmetic and the use of logarithms in banking. In good condition (scattered light foxing); engraved armorial bookplate and wax seal of Franz Anton Glonner zu Burghausen (1750-1834), the master mason oversaw brick construction there.
¶Brüggemann & Ewers, Handbuch zur Kinder- und Jugendliteratur von 1750 bis 1800 563; Rammensee, Bibliographie der Nürnberger Kinder-und Jugendbücher 1065 "[1783]" not seen).