Books - "engineering"
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The Wonder Book of Motors: The Romance of the Road
Torn page, large super octavo hardcover (tatty) no d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock and Co Ltd n/d
KEYWORDS: motor transport cars history engineering travel exploration
Handbook of the Steam-Engine. Containing All the Rules Required for the Right Construction and Management of Engines of Every Class, with the Easy Arithmetical Solution of Those Rules Constituting A Key to the 'Catechism of the Steam-Engine
octavo, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, yellow eps, xii + 474pp + 6pp adverts, illus, VG (moderate soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, ligth puckering to bottom of front board, heavy bruising to board edges, bookseller's lebel to fep, moderate browning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: D. Appleton & Co 1870
KEYWORDS: steam engine locomotion engineering history trains transport reference vehicle manual
Railway Engineer; The Story of George Stevenson
first edition octavo black cloth boards, illus 171pp ex library with usual treatments VG- ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: charles Scribner's sons 1941
KEYWORDS: railways locomotives trains transport george stevenson biography engineering
I.C.S. Reference Library: Nautical Definitions, Heat, Gases and Steam, Shell Boilers, Water-Tube Boilers, Marine-Boiler Mountings, Combustion, Fuels and Firing, Smoke Prevention and Draught, Marine-Boiler Repairs, Marine-Boiler Inspection
Super octavo, half bound, brown boards with gilt lettering to leather spine, patterned eps, il + 678pp, illus, VG- (front board detached but present, heavy bruising to spine extrems & board corners, moderate rubbing to spine, light rubbing to boards, light tanning to page edges, moderate foxing to page edges, owner's name in ink written across text on title page)
PUBLISHER: International Correspondence Schools (n/d)
KEYWORDS: engineering repairs nautical technology marine boilers reference fuel combustion physics
Architectural Practice and Procedure: From Appointment to Final Account for Architects, Surveyors and the Building Industry
Super octavo, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 186pp, illus, VG (correction tape to fep, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light fading to spine, light rubbing, light soiling, light creasing)
PUBLISHER: Batsford Academic and Educational 1981
KEYWORDS: architecture reference buildings engineering
Press Tolls and Press Work
Super octavo, heavy card boards, green lettering to spine & front board, 378pp illus, VG- (heavy rubbing & soiling to boards, heavy fading to spine & boards, light bruising to board corners & spine extrems, sporadic scratches to rear board, permanent marker to lower page edges, light soiling to page edges, minor underlining in pencil to a few pages, minor soiling to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Portcullis Press Ltd. 1978
KEYWORDS: mechanical engineering press tools presswork
Famous Tank Battles
Super octavo hardcover (VG) no d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Doubleday 1972
KEYWORDS: military history tanks machinery engineering
The Next World War: Computers are the Weapons and the Front Line is Everywhere
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Simon and Schuster 1998
KEYWORDS: military computer warfare technology engineering politics espionage
The Building and Running of Steam Traction Engine and Roller Models
Super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 179pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light tanning & light soiling to page edges) in d/w VG (dust wrapper stuck down to rear paste down with large sticker, moderate bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light rubbing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Lion Engineering Co. 1978
KEYWORDS: locomotion trains engineering steam rollers history manual reference
Human Cloning: Playing God or Scientific Progress
Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Fleming H. Revell 1998
KEYWORDS: genetics clone dna science ethics genetic engineering
Jane's Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems: Fourth Edition: 1992-1993
Quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 651pp, illus, VG (library pocket to fep, light tanning to page edges, light rubbing & light soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: Jane's Information Group 1992
KEYWORDS: surveillance Radar Electronics military engineering technology
Hobson's Choice: Recollections of a North Country Engineman
Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Oxford Publishing Co 1986
KEYWORDS: rail railways history autobiography memoir Dennis Hobson transport England trains engineering mechanics
Chas, Roe Coachbuilders Vol. One 1920-1942
Oblong quarto hardcover (VG+) no d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: The Transport Publishing Company 1979 approx.
KEYWORDS: transport history engineering England industry bus coach
Modern Motorcycle Mechanics
Super octavo, orange boards with silver lettering in brown panels to spine, gilt lettering in brown panel to front board, 766pp, illus, VG (some soiling to boards & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges, bookseller's and prev. owner's details to fep)
PUBLISHER: Nicholson Brothers 1974 (Seventh Edition)
KEYWORDS: automotive engineering motorcycle motorbike mechanics
Principles and Practice of Aerial Navigation
From the library of the Oxford University Air Squadron, first edition, octavo, blue-grey buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind stamped lettering to front board, vii + 172pp + 15pp book ads to rear, illus plus folding charts, VG (some staining to boards, light tanning to page edgdes, small ding to front board lower edge, bookseller's label to front pastedown, library stamps to front pastedown, owner's name in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Crosby Lockwood & Son 1920
KEYWORDS: aviation aeronautical engineering aerial navigation
Toughness and Brittleness in Metals: Lectures Delivered at the Institution of Metallurgists Refresher Course 1960
Ex-library, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Iliffe Books/Interscience 1961
KEYWORDS: metallurgy science metals lectures education engineering alloys
The Story of the Kingston Flyer
Imperial octavo softcover, stapled light card covers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Whitcoulls 1975
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history rail railway trains Kingston flyer steam engineering
Famous Aircraft: The B-17 Flying Fortress
Quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Arco Publishing 1965
KEYWORDS: aviation b-17 raf history military engineering motors bombers
Forty Years of Ferrari V-12 Engines
Large oblong quarto, black boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, iii + 80pp, illus, VG (slight tanning to eps) in d/w, VG (4cm closed tear to upper edge repaired with archival tape, light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Society of Automotive Engineers 1990
KEYWORDS: Ferrari cars motor racing automotive engineering V12 engines
Turbines Steam Water and Gas
Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to sipne & front cover, xi + 107pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to boards edges & corners, some tanning to page edges & eps, small closed tear to paper of rear pastedown) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate staining, moderate creasing to edges, heavy creasing to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Percival Marshall & Co 1964
KEYWORDS: turbines engineering education