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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a comprehensive guide to railway practice, featuring a collection of working plans and practical details of construction. It provides insights into the work of some of the most celebrated engineers of the time, covering everything from roads and tramroads to aqueducts and warehouses.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a comprehensive guide to railway practice, featuring a collection of working plans and practical details of construction. It provides insights into the work of some of the most celebrated engineers of the time, covering everything from roads and tramroads to aqueducts and warehouses.

IV, 310, (2)pp. With frontispiece and numerous text-illustrations. Orig. cloth. Title-page with 2 old stamps, else very good.

Half-Leather. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 36 text pages, 22 plates (including the frontispiece), 2 large folding maps. Original binding with leather spine and corners, all edges gilt, new endpapers, bottom corners bumped, some foxing, closed tears in the maps. Inscribed by the author to William Bridges, Esq., a few old stamps. Beautiful illustrations of early New Zealand. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: VG+. Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 490 pages. Light overall rubbing to covers and edges; solid binding; ink ownership inscription. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A complete four volume set of S. C. Brees's impressive study of railway engineering and construction in the nineteenth century, illustrated with over 250 folding and double paged plates. Present here are the third edition of volume I, the second edition of volume II, and the first editions of volumes III and IV.This work is considered to be of the foremost sources of contemporary information on civil engineering issues relating to early railways and rolling stock. The First Series mostly concerns the London & BirminghamRailway; the Second Series includes aspects of the Great Western, the London & Croydon, and specifications and contracts for works on the Birmingham & Gloucester, while the Third and Fourth Series's are mostly devoted to French railways.Volume I is illustrated with a double-page lithographed frontispiece after Brees, and sixty-nine double page plates. Collated, complete.Volume II is illustrated with a double-page lithographed frontispiece and seventy double-paged plates. Collated, complete.Volume III is illustrated with sixty-nine double-paged plates. Collated, complete.Volume III is illustrated with sixty-nine double-paged and folding plates. Collated, complete.With the bookplate of Arthur Elton, who himself authored a 1940s work on the British Railways, to each front pastedown.Not present here is the 1839 appendix volume.The author was involved in engineering the London to Birmingham line under Stephenson. He later went to New Zealand, and produced a topographical work on the country. Volume III in the publisher's original cloth binding. Volume I rebacked, with majority of original back strip laid down and boards restored, with endpapers renewed. Volumes II and IV rebound in cloth, with endpapers renewed. Externally, excellent. Loss of cloth to back strip tail of volume IV. Bookplate to each front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages significantly age toned due to paper type, with significant handling marks throughout. Spotting and instances of foxing to plate and page perimeters. Very Good. book.

London, John Williams, 1847. 4to. Uncut in contemp. full blindtamped cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Tear to lower part of first hinge. A paperlabel psted on top of spine. Stamps on foot og title-page. XV,247 pp. and 69 double-page engraved plates. Some brownspots to the first few leaves, otherwise clean and fine. A few scattered brownspots to plates. This volume contains the first English translation of August Perdonnet and Polonceau: "Portefeuielle de Ingenieur des Chemins de Fer".

London, John Williams, 1839. 4to. Uncut in orig. full cloth, gilt lettering to spine. First inner hinge loose. Wear to top of spine.Spine faded. Stamps on foot og title-page. VII,373 pp. and 6 engraved plates (3 double-page and folding). Text clean and fine, some foxing to plates.

Paris, 1840. Folio-oblong. Cont.hcalf. Back worn. Lithogr.frontisp. (Chemin de Fer de Londres á Birmingham) and 77 lithogr. plates. A little brownspotted.