Books - "engineering"
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Tunnelling History and My Own Involvement
SIGNED & INSCRIBED, WITH HOLOGRAPH LETTER FROM AUTHOR LOOSELY ENCLOSED, octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispice, xiv + 258pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl foxing & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Golder Associates 1981
KEYWORDS: signed tunnelling history tunnels tunnel building digging civil engineering geology Sir Harold Harding
Notes on Cylinder Bridge Piers and the Well System of Foundations
Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering & rule to front board, viii + 136pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: E & F N Spon 1893
KEYWORDS: civil engineering cylinder bridge piers well systems foundations construction concrete
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography (Popular Edition)
Sm octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, frontispiece, xx + 450pp, illus, VG (sl bruising to extrems, light to moderate fading & sioling to spine, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1897
KEYWORDS: engineering engineers James Nasmyth autobiography memoir history
Old London Bridge
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering & rule to spine, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xviii + 382pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light cracking to some gutters, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, G+ (heavy creasing & chipping to spine & edges with some loss- heavy adhesive repairs to internal sides, moderate soiling & chafing with some staining also)
PUBLISHER: John Lane / The Bodley Head 1931
KEYWORDS: London Bridge civil engineering history construction medieval
Tunneling in Rock
Super octavo, green cloth boards, white lettering to spine & front board, xiii + 250pp, illus/photos, vG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl fading to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light chafing & wrinkling)
PUBLISHER: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company 1973
KEYWORDS: geology rock tunnels tunnelling civil engineering construction geotechnical enginnering science
The History of Tunnelling: Underground Workings Through the Ages
Octavo, brown/orange buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xii + 427pp, illus, VG+ (light scuffing & bruising to spine & extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & chafing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Barrie and Rockliff 1963
KEYWORDS: history civil engineering tunnels tunnelling construction
Lives of the Engineers: The Steam Engine, Boulton and Watt
Octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration & black rule/decoration to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 416pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, light foxing to prelims, occasional minor cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1874
KEYWORDS: civil engineering engineers Matthew Boulton James Watt biographies history construction design steam engines
Handbook of Practical Bituminous Road Construction (Second Edition)
Octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Asphalt Dept. of the Shell Company of New Zealand N/D
KEYWORDS: bitumen road construction civil engineering asphalt
Maus: Armored Military Vehicles and Other German Armored Projects
Oblong imperial octavo stapled glossy 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Schiffer / Whitford Press 1989
KEYWORDS: military history German artillery weapons weaponry armoured armored vehicles tanks maus design engineering
T-72 Soviet Main Battle Tank
Oblong imperial octavo stapled glossy 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Concord Publications 1989
KEYWORDS: military weapons weaponry Russia Russian tanks armoured armored vehicles artillery t-72 design engineering history Soviet
M2 / M3 Bradley Second to None
Oblong imperial octavo stapled glossy 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Concord Publications 1990
KEYWORDS: military weapons weaponry artillery armoured armored vehicles tanks M2 M3 Bradley design engineering
USMC Firepower: Armor & Artillery
Oblong imperial octavo stapled glossy 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Concord Publications 1990
KEYWORDS: US marines marine corps USMC weapons weaponry artillery tanks armoured armored vehicles military design engineering
Unusual Panzers
Oblong imperial octavo stapled glossy 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Schiffer Publishing 1994
KEYWORDS: military armored armoured vehicles tanks weapons weaponry artillery panzers Goliath design engineering
Playing in the Prescence: Genetics, Ethics and Spirituality
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Quaker Books 2002
KEYWORDS: ethics technology biology Quaker genetics genetic engineering
Lives of the Engineers: History of Roads: Metcalfe, Telford
Octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, black rule & gilt illus to front board, frontispiece, ix + 331pp, illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing & chipping to extrems, light discolouration to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's embossed stamp to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light wrinkling to some page edges, occasional moderate cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1878
KEYWORDS: engineers history Thomas Telford John Metcalfe roads civil engineering construction infrastructure
The Story of the Life of George Stephenson; Including a Memoir of His Son Robert Stephenson
Octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind rule to boards, frontispiece xiv + 388pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing with moderate soiling to page edges, ffep partially detached, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to title page- historic, light foxing & soiling sporadically throughout, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1873
KEYWORDS: civil engineering engineers biographies memoir George Stephenson Robert history
Selected Engineerng Papers; Being Original Communications Ordered by the Council to be Published Without Discussion: No 53 - The Reconstruction of Mossgiel Tunnel
Octavo, blue stiff card covers- string bound, black lettering to front board, 9pp, folding plates to rear, VG (light scuffing, soiling & creasing to covers/spine/extrems, light tanning to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: The Institution 1927
KEYWORDS: civil engineering engineers Mossgiel tunnel building construction
New Zealand Ships Illustrated 1988-89 - 1990 Update
1990 UPDATE EDITION, sm 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Industrial Publishing 1990
KEYWORDS: New Zealand ships maritime nautical guide statistics design identification engineering transport
Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: MIT Press 2003
KEYWORDS: rosalind williams engineering history technology philosophy administartion planning modernity criticism
Wonders of the World Engineering (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, blind stamp lettering to front boards, red speckling to page edges, 1524pp total, illus/photos, VG- (heavy chipping & fraying/bruising to spine & board extrems, moderate fading & tanning to spines, moderate fading & chafing to boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, light tanning & moderate foxing to eps, varying degrees of cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: The Amalgamated Press N/D
KEYWORDS: design infrastructure civil engineering