This book provided instructions to surveyors and map-makers on how to use the latest technology to transfer information about actual geographical features to paper. The back of the volume includes a sleeve with a wide range of sample maps of the type that owners of the book would learn how to make, from contour maps to surveys of mining claims to nautical charts.

This a great source for further study and innovation in the field of mapping and surveying to learn about different types of maps and how to produce.