History of the Rectangular Survey System

I bought my copy about 10 years ago for $1 from the public library discards shelf.

When it first came out the BLM Public Room (Utah) was selling them for $10, I snapped one up right then and there.

Loyal

If you want it for reference, you can download PDF here: https://books.google.com/books?id=1-BcVn3VhPQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

There's some other neat stuff here, some downloadable and some not.

Sometimes a physical book is very pleasing, but for anyone interested primarily in the content, a free PDF is available from BLM: https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/histrect.pdf

I thought there might be someone screwed up like me that likes actually books with pages.

@tommy-young

You're not alone there. I want real books for Christmas. My thought was that the book may be too valuable to use, so let Office Depot print the PDF version for reading and reference and let the real one appreciate in value.

Agreed about how a physical book is nice sometimes. By the way, a couple of years ago for my birthday, my wife bought me a copy of Donald Wilson's "Deed Descriptions I Have Known but Could Have Done Without." As I recall she paid $100-something for it. In the past few weeks, I've seen book dealers list four copies of it for sale at: $266.82, $1,875.00, $1,703.80, and $249.28. The last two were for two different copies from the same dealer. As far as I know, there's never been a free or even low-priced electronic version of that book. The dealer / collector prices are rather nutty.

"Deed Descriptions I Have Known but Could Have Done Without."

Amazon lists 8 copies, from $100 up.?ÿ Abebooks wants $250. There's one on ebay now for $148.

alibris.com?ÿhas 11 copies of Al White's book this morning.?ÿ

@bill93

The four prices I quoted were in automatic search-match emails from Abebooks.

I've got the hardback copy. It's big. I'll never have the free time in my life to read it. But it is simply remarkable.?ÿ