DOCKING, GIL & DUNN, MICHAEL (Additions from 1970-1990) & HANFLING, EDWARD (Additions from 1990-2020)

Lg quarto, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, 296pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creaising to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2021

KEYWORDS: New Zealand art history

HORNE, R H (Ed) & VERNET, RAFFET and HORACE (Illus/Design)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, half leather bound maroon textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to title plate with raised bands & blind stamp decoration on spine, marbled page edges, frontispiece, xii + 232pp + illus/plates to rear- not counted presumed all present, VG- (heavy rubbing & cracking to spine & extrems with some surface loss, heavy chafing & moderate fading to boards with some minor soiling also, light discolouration to page edges, moderate cracking to gutters, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing & soiling to eps & prelims/terminals, occasional moderate foxing to pages throughout, occasional light chipping to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Robert Tyas 1840

KEYWORDS: Napoleon Bonaparte history biography memoir French war

SMILES, SAMUEL

Octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt rule & black rule to front board, frontispiece, viii + 416pp, illus, VG (light bruising & moderate scuffing/chipping to extrems, moderate discolouration to spine, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, sm ex-libris plate to front pastedown, moderate foxing & water staining to prelims)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1874

KEYWORDS: history engineering Matthew Boulton James Watt steam engine biographies

WALKER, CHARLES

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

BANKS, A G & SCHOFIELD, R B

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

SMILES, SAMUEL

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

BEAMISH, RICHARD

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

WEST, GRAHAM

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

HARDING, Sir HAROLD

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

SMILES, SAMUEL (Ed)

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

HOME, GORDON

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

SANDSTROM, GOSTA E

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

SMILES, SAMUEL

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

SMILES, SAMUEL

Octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering with black & gilt rule to spine & front board, xii + 474pp, VG- (minor scuffing to extrems, light fading & chafing to spine, light chafing to boards, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name to ffep, v heavy crack to front gutter- front board v shaky, minor cracking sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1887

KEYWORDS: history industry biographies Samuel Smiles

SMILES, SAMUEL

Octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus & black rule & decoration to front board, frontispiece, xxxiii + 320pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate fading to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light soiling to eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1874

KEYWORDS: Samuel Smiles civil enginnering engineers biographies history Cornelius Vermuyden Hugh Myddelton Captain Perry James Brindley

OPIE, IONA and PETER

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: Oxford University Press 1984

KEYWORDS: children's games street playground recreation hide seek dares pretend history British

STEPHAN, ENNO & DAVIDSON, ARTHUR (Trans)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Macdonald & Co 1963

KEYWORDS: military history spies espionage German ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

RUDE, GEORGE

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: John Wiley & Sons c.1964

KEYWORDS: history George Rude conflict France England French English riots revolution 18th eighteenth century

GRIMSHAW, PATRICIA & LAKE, MARILYN & McGRATH, ANN & QUARTLY, MARIAN

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: McPhee Gribble Publishers 1994

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history anthropology British ancestry culture

STEGNER, WALLACE & DE VOTO, BERNARD (Intro)

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: University of Nebraska Press 1982

KEYWORDS: history biographies memoir John Wesley Powell US American