telford thomas (22 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 194 pages. 9.75x7.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Undated c.1895. Minimal signs of wear to decorated brown cloth boards. Light foxing to the page edges. Contents remain clear and firmly bound within. A lovely copy overall.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine original engraving, printed ca. 1890. Mounted and ready to frame. An excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pale green wrappers. Covers slightly creased and nicked at (yapp) fore-edge, corner of lower cover a little creased. Edition limited to 200 copies; errata slip tipped in. The civil engineer Thomas Telford once published poems as "Eskdale Tam"; this, the last of his known verses, was addressed to a fellow Eskdaleman, Sir John Malcolm, newly returned from India, where he was Governor of Bombay. Halliwell B5.

Slim 4to, 12pp. Original matte green paper wrapper, some slight bruising to corners. Portrait of Thomas Telford at frontispiece. Gift inscription dated 1977 on front fly leaves. A near-fine copy. One of 200 copies.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 11. Original publisher's green wraps, lettered black on the front cover. Limited edition of 200 copies. Slight creasing and fading at spine, otherwise very good.

SOFTCOVER. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to in colour printed stiff paper wrappers, 32pp text with plates and illustrations in text, 20pp of period engineering and construction related adverts at rear . [CONDITION: Mild foxing to covers else a a well preserved VERY GOOD clean and tight unmarked copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pale green wrappers. Spine very slightly faded, upper cover slightly creased. Edition limited to 200 copies; errata slip tipped in. Loosely inserted a presentation typed letter signed from Roland A. Paxton to the Edinburgh antiquarian bookseller J.R. Abbey, 1p. 8vo, Edinburgh, 5 October 1979, thanking him for "drawing my attention to the books with Telford's signature in them in the recent sale, I hope that you will accept the enclosed as a memento of the occasion. It has been out of print for sometime now . . ." Roland Arthur Paxton (1932-) was principal engineer, Lothian Regional Council, 1975-84, senior principal engineer, Scotland, 1984-90, and from 1994 an honorary Professor of Civil Engineering at Heriot-Watt University. The civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757-1834) once published poems as "Eskdale Tam"; this, the last of his known verses, was addressed to a fellow Eskdaleman, Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833), newly returned from India, where he was Governor of Bombay.

Zustand: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. PROVIS W. A. (William Alexander) 1792-1870] (illustrator). 1st Edition. Uncommon, containing: The Report; Minutes of Evidence; Mr Telford's Report & Estimate; Plan and Section of the Road. In plain modern paper wraps, no title. Internally, [2], 3-20 pp, 4 maps (large folding), to be Printed 28 June 1815. (HC 463). (327*192 mm). (Hansard Catalogue & Breviate 1696-1834 p133).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Uncommon. 4 reports bound as 1. !830/34/36 & 1837. In modern plain paper wraps, no title. Internally, [3], 4-54. 11th Report, 1834, [3], 4-17, [1]. 13th Report, 1836, [3], 4-19, [1]. 14th Report, 1837, [3], 4-16 pp, [2]. This last report on darker, cheaper paper, top corner tips lacking, additional ink ms pagination to top corner throughout. (HC 659/608/437/533). (326*203 mm). The First report was issued in 1826.

Half-Leather. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Published in 1803, this is the First Edition of this important early survey of the Agriculture of Shropshire, looking at the Geology, Mineral Resources, Soils, Climate, Water, Estates and their Management, Farms, Cottages, Rents, Leases, Husbandry, Arable Land, Crops and Crop Rotation, Grasses, Plants, Draining, Cattle, Livestock, Sheep, Poultry, Bees, Fuels, Roads, Markets, Manufacture, Canals, Population, Fairs and More The chapters on Roads and Canals were written by Thomas Telford and are credited thus at end of this section, illustrated with a map of the county and plates, including detailed plans of the Canal inclined plane at Ketley, the Aqueduct at Longden On Tern, the New Iron Bridge crossing the River Severn at Buildwas book measures inches just under 8.5 inches tall, 366 pages. Bound in an old half leather binding. CONDITION The binding is rubbed and worn, cracking to upper joint along its length though binding still holding. Internally pages remain untrimmed, noticeable heavy foxing to a number of pages else in good acceptable condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. BASIRE James 1769-1835 (illustrator). First Edition. 2 vols - The Charts & Plans with The Report, complete, 16 large plates, VG, 1st ed. Charts & Plans, 54*68 cms (small double elephant), in modern half calf with contemporary marbled boards, some blind tooling, paper title, board edges a little bumped. Spine, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, title page with title & plate list within double ruled borders, 16 large, double page, folding plates of engraved maps, plans, elevations and sections, including a general map of the routes between Carlisle and Belfast, detailed plans of proposed harbours, new roads and bridges, including 7 of which are partly hand coloured, leaves water marked 1801, some very minor toning & spotting, some creasing, small paper repairs to head of tp, some of the plates are 140*63 cms! The Report, 34.6*22cms (Tall Folio), in modern blue paper wraps, white paper label to upper cover, [2], 3-75 pp, [2], [1], paper watermarked 1804, t.e.g., first 4 leaves have contemp. ink numbering to top corner, contains the report pp 3-5 & The Appendix pp 7-75. Printed by L. Hansard & Son for the House of Commons. (Parliamentary Papers, 1780-1849, Vol 52, Part 7, 26 - Repot, 1809). Telford, civil engineer, whose main achievements in road making were the London to Holyhead and Bangor to Chester roads as engineer to the Holyhead road commissioners from 1815, and the Glasgow to Carlisle, Lanarkshire, and highlands of Scotland roads as engineer to the highland roads commissioners from 1803. See ODNB. M'KERLIE who in 1806 as a Rear-Admiral M'Kerlie, was instructed by the Admiralty to assist Mr. T. Telford, a Civil Engineer, in making a survey of the line of communication between the north of England and the north of Ireland, and also in surveying the harbours on each side of the Channel.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 363 S., priv. Lwd., Bindung 1998 , Bibex., typisch gedunkelt , sonst sauber , stabil und komplett , alle Tabellen und Kupfer vorhanden und in sehr gutem Zustand.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Published in London by J. Taylor in 1820 this is the second edition of this early work on repairing roads by Thomas Telford, book is bound in the scarce original drab boards with paper title label to upper board, 9 inches tall approx., 8pp plus engraved plate, bound in at rear is a 20 page publishers catalogue. cCovers are rubbed at edges, minor loss of paper covering to spine, minor marks else covers in good original condition. Internally a few minor marks else contents in good condition Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE (1757-1834) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and road, bridge and canal builder. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels.

Zustand: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, May 11 (SALE item)* vol. 18, partly bound, minor library markings else text clean & binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

4pp., foolscap 8vo, on two bifoliums. On aged and worn paper, with slight bloom at head and a little loss to spine from disbinding. The letter (2pp.) begins: 'Now for a twelvemonth the dues collected for the passage of Vessels through the Caledonian Canal have been progressively deposited in the Bank of Scotland at Inverness and Fortwilliam by the Collectors, upon deposit Receipts in the name of Mr Rickman and me.' The receipts amounting to £4200, and 'a certain Sum of Interest' having arisen, he conveys the instructions of the Canal's Commissioners, that a new account be opened in Edinburgh. The letter continues with further details, and is signed 'Ja Hope'. Accompanying the letter and 2pp. long, is a tabulated 'Schedule of Deposit Receipts of The Bank of Scotland, sent to the Bank to be placed to the Credit of the Commissioners for the Caledonian Canal', with the first entry dated 23 August 1824, and the last 19 December 1825. This lists 42 deposits made in Inverness and Fort William, with 'Dates', 'Days', 'Interest' and 'Sums'. The interest on the £4200 total is £68 13s 3d. Docketed 'Schedule of Deposit Receipts of the Bank of Scotland | Canal Dues.' Accompanying the document is a manuscript resolution, dated 'Bank of Scotland | 29 Decr 1835': 'The Sum of £4268. 13/3 is placed to Credit of Messrs Rickman & Hope, for Commrs for the Caledonian Canal. In Account with the Bank of Scotland - | A Y p Secy'. Also present are four lines of pencilled accounts.