Books - "engineering"
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The Callander & Oban Railway
Octavo, Orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 200pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in pencil to fep, heavy foxing to page edges, tanning to title page) in VG+ d/w (soiling to rear, tanning to internal spine & internal edges)
PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1966
KEYWORDS: railways trains steam engines locomotives transport engineering rolling stock history John Thomas Callander Oban Scotland John Anderson Glenmutchkin
The Highland Railway
Octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 182pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in pencil to fep, tanning & foxing to prelims, heavy foxing to page edges & to last few pages) in VG d/w (slight soiling & fading, price clipped, browning to interior)
PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1963
KEYWORDS: railways trains steam engines locomotives transport engineering rolling stock history HA Vallance Scotland Highland Inverness Perth steamships snow WWI
The Great North of Scotland Railway
Octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 192pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in pencil to fep, slight staining to front & rear board upper edges, foxing to eps & page edges) in VG d/w (price clipped, rubbing to spine extrems & edges, soiling to front & rear, tanning to interior,
PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1965
KEYWORDS: railways trains steam engines locomotives transport engineering rolling stock history HA Vallance Scotland Great North first third class Ballater Aberdeen LNER
The Archaeology of Railways
Square imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 304pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in pencil to fep, very slight spotting to boards) in VG+ d/w (bruising/creasing to lower spine/lower front board fold)
PUBLISHER: World's Work Ltd 1981
KEYWORDS: PJG Ranson railways transport trains steam engines locomotives branch lines stopping trains rolling stock signalling stations engineering works horsedrawn waggonways tramroads history bridges viaducts tunnels stations architecture
The Railway Empire
Super octavo, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, viii + 264pp, fine, in fine d/w
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1994
KEYWORDS: Anthony Burton history railways trains steam engines locomotives transport engineering economic imperialism Brunel Robert Stephenson Canada Britain France Joseph Locke jungles George Pauling Africa
The Romance of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Octavo, light blue cloth wrappers with gilt lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece, 263pp, illus, VG+ (v slight fading to covers, owner's name & date in pencil to fep, slight foxing to eps & page edges)
PUBLISHER: Ryerson Press 1924
KEYWORDS: RG Macbeth Canadian Pacific Railway history trains steam engines locomotives tracks engineering construction
Theories of Abstract Automata
Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board, xiii + 412pp, nr fine (very slight bruising to lower board corners)
PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall 1969
KEYWORDS: Michael A Arbib automata computing engineering mechanics physics mathematics Turing algebraic decomposition theory
Great Western in Colour
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: Blandford Press 1978
KEYWORDS: specials railways trains transport history OS Nock Clifford Wendy Meadway Great Western engineering Brunel Cornwall Wales
Labyrinths of Iron: A History of the World's Subways
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: Newsweek Books 1981
KEYWORDS: specials Benson Bobrick subways metros the tube metropolitan line trains underground railways transport engineering history
The Exeter Canal
Imperial 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: Phillimore & Co 1984
KEYWORDS: Kenneth Clew specials Exeter canal River Exe history Countess Wear Lighter Canal Ship Canal engineering trade Devonshire England
Report on The Mining Industry in New Zealand
being papers laid before Parliament during the session of 1886
original binding, octavo, rust buckram boards with gilt lettering and blind-stamped device to spine, blind rule to both boards and spine, ii + 334pp, illus including VG folding tables (creasing and small closed tears to extremities), VG (wear and soiling to boards, rear lower corner missing, pencil owner's name to fep, light foxing to eps and page edges)
PUBLISHER: George Didsbury, Government Printer 1887
KEYWORDS: w.j.m. larnach new zealand history mining industry engineering
Planning and Installing Bioenergy Systems; A Guide for Installers, Architects and Engineers
quarto, illus light card covers, spiral bound, xi + 268pp, illus, VG+ (v light wear)
PUBLISHER: James & James 2005
KEYWORDS: environment science planning bioenergy systems architects engineering
The Principles of Navigation
hardback octavo with d/w + plastic wrap (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: Hollis & Carter 1966
KEYWORDS: specials navigation anderson science engineering travel exploration
The Worcester and Birmingham Canal: Chronicles of the Cut
Imperial octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xvi + 392pp, fine, in d/w, fine
PUBLISHER: Brewin Books 2005
KEYWORDS: Reverend Alan White Worcester Birmingham canal transport history engineering locks Edgbaston Selly Oak Kings Norton West Hill tunnel Hopwood Alvechurch
North British Steam Locomotives built 1857-1956 for Railways Oversease
Squre imperial octavo, blue/black mottled cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus title page, 112pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (price clipped)
PUBLISHER: D Bradford Barton (date?)
KEYWORDS: John H Court railways trains steam engines North British Locomotive Company Britain locomotives engineering railway history
The Fastest Men on Earth
The men and cars that smashed the world land speed record
Ex-library hardcover super octavo (VG-) in d/w (G) ; 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: Herbert Jenkins Ltd 1964
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Paul Clifton transport cars speed records history technical engineering chronicle competition world records
Straphangers and Grippers: The Ups and Downs of the Mornington Cable-car System 1883 to 1957
Signed by both authors, imperial octavo, illus yellow light card covers, 120pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1994
KEYWORDS: Bill Campbell Ray Hargreaves New Zealand Dunedin Mornington passenger transport cable cars cablecars engineering construction history
The Aspinall Era
Super octavo, dark brown cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, iii + 270pp, illus, VG- (staining to boards, sellotape residue to boards, bookseller's label to front pastedown, two owners' inscriptions in ink to fep, tanning to fep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy foxing & tanning internally, sellotape residue stains internally)
PUBLISHER: Ian Allan 1967
KEYWORDS: HAV Bulleid Sir John Aspinall Lancashire & Yorkshire Great Southern & Western transport railways trains engineering history
The Springburn Story: The History of the Scottish Railway Metropolis
Octavo, orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 260pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG (foxing) in d/w, VG (price clipped, fading)
PUBLISHER: David & Charles / Dawlish Macdonald 1964
KEYWORDS: John Thomas Springburn Scotland Scottish railways trains locomotives engineering history Caledonian and North British steam locomotive builders
The British Battle Fleet: Its Inception and Growth throughout the Centuries to the Present Day
With illustrations in colour from original watercolour drawings by W.L. Wyllie and numerous plans and photographs
2-volume set, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt ship motif to front boards, frontispiece, xvi + 322pp + 10pp naval terminology glossary (vol 1), iv + 288pp (vol 2), illus, VG- (heavy fading to spines and board upper edges, small hole to vol 2 upper spine, bruising to spine extrems, browning to page edges, tanning & foxing)
PUBLISHER: The Literary Press 1915
KEYWORDS: Fred T James nautical naval history British Navy battle naval fleet ships warships shipbuilding design engineering