Books - "engineering"
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Thomas Brassey: Railway Builder
Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 183pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light minor foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/scuffing to edges, light fading & chafing/surface loss to spine, light chafing & soiling/tanning)
PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller 1969
KEYWORDS: transport history rail railways trains Thomas Brassey civil engineering
Brindley at Wet Earth Colliery: An Engineering Study
Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 156pp, illus/photos, VG+ (v sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1968
KEYWORDS: engineering James Brindley history water Manchester mine pumping operation Clifton Wet Earth Colliery 18th eighteenth century industrialisation industrialization
Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
Sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind stamp decoration to boards, xiv + 342pp, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light staining to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light foxing & soiling to prelims & terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to full title page- historical)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1863
KEYWORDS: Samuel Smiles history iron tools industrial industrialisation industrialization engineering
Shield and Compressed Air Tunneling
Super octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 465pp, illus/photos, folding diagrams- not counted presumed all present, VG (light scuffing to extrems, minor chipping to spine extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, numerous ownership ink stamps to eps & prelims, moderate cracking to rear gutter, minor creasing to some page edges)
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1922
KEYWORDS: civil engineering industrial tunnels tunneling shield compressed air construction
Memoir of the Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black rule & decoration to boards, frontispiece, xvi + 359pp, illus, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & chipping/fraying to extrems, moderate to heavy soiling spine & boards, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- boards sl shaky, light to moderate staining to eps, sm ink numerals in ink to front pastedown, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, light to moderate foxing & soiling to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts 1862
KEYWORDS: civil engineering biographies memoir Sir Marc Isambard Brunel history engineers
Innovation and the Rise of the Tunnelling Industry
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 355pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light creasing & chafing, light tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: first editions history tunnelling civil engineering industry
Practical Tunnel Driving
Super octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, printed rear eps, frontispiece, xviii + 436pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light chafing/scuffing to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light crayon markings to half title page & verso of, light foxing to full title page & frontispiece)
PUBLISHER: MacGraw-Hill Book Company 1941
KEYWORDS: civil engineering tunnels tunnelling construction design surveying
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