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Örjan Sandström wrote:
> Paul, I can not view that book, not even partially.

The surveying instruments book by Stanley? Try archive.org:

http://archive.org/details/surveyingandlev00stangoog
http://archive.org/details/surveyinglevelli00stanrich

The first link is the Google scan. In the "View the book" box on the 
left, the "PDF (Google.com)" link takes you to the online Google reader. 
  It might work, even though you could not read the book directly 
through Google.

Sometimes archive.org is the only way to find a book on Google. I have 
seen this more than once: a book does not appear in a Google search, but 
archive.org has a good link to the book - in Google!

The "Read Online" link on that page uses the archive.org reader. I find 
it very slow compared to Google's reader, but I don't have a high speed 
connection.

To download the whole book, in the "View the book" box click "All Files: 
HTTPS". That takes you to a list of files where you can choose the 
desired format.

The second link to archive.org is a Microsoft scan of the same book. 
Often Google's scans do not have enough resolution if the text includes 
mathematical formulas. ("Is that exponent a 2 or a 3?") Note the larger 
file sizes in the second link.

Stanley's book on drawing instruments is online too. It's in this list 
of seach hits:
http://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28instruments%29%20AND%20creator%3A%28stanley%29

My previous message also had a link a page in the Keuffel & Esser 
magazine "The Compass". But it's just a picture. I wouldn't have 
included it, except that Bruce asked for anything from K&E. It's in 
volume 2 of the magazine. Unfortunately, archive.org has only vol 1. But 
the magazine is interesting.
http://archive.org/details/compass00unkngoog

   

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