The civil engineer (35 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 3rd Revised edition. 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.…

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

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

Zustand: New. In.

Kl.-4°, V, 472 SS., Halbleinenband der Zeit (etwas berieben). Titel mit kleinem Bibliotheksstempel. Mit vielen interessanten Beiträgen aus allen Gebieten der Technk und der Architektur.

Zustand: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original grey cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered lime green back and front, colour illustrated lining papers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains colour frontispiece, 320 pp with splendid monochrome illustrations throughout by the author. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams. Fading and age tanning down the spine, finger marks to the boards and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Zustand: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original grey cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered orange back and front, colour illustrated lining papers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains colour frontispiece, 320 pp with splendid monochrome illustrations throughout by the author. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams. Age tanning down the spine, marks to the boards and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Zustand: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original grey cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered aqua blue back and front, colour illustrated lining papers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains colour frontispiece, 320 pp with splendid monochrome illustrations throughout by the author. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams. Age tanning down the spine and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, with small part of paper mount adhering at head. Accepting a dinner invitation on 20 November.

Zustand: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original pale blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered dark magenta back and front, colour illustrated lining papers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains colour frontispiece, 319 pp with splendid monochrome illustrations throughout by the author. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams. Just a little age tanning down the spine and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Zustand: Good. Reprinted edition hard back binding in publisher's original grey cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered dark brown back and front, colour illustrated lining papers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains colour frontispiece, 223 pp with splendid monochrome illustrations throughout by the author. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams. Just a little age tanning down the spine, finger marks to the boards and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Zustand: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original light blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered orange back and front, colour illustrated lining papers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains colour frontispiece, 317 pp with splendid monochrome illustrations throughout by the author. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams. Age tanning down the spine and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Zustand: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original grey cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered dark brown back and front, colour illustrated lining papers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains captioned tissue-guarded colour frontispiece, 320 pp with splendid monochrome illustrations throughout by the author. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams with relatives name to the half-title page 'John Williams | 26 Parkside Drive, Edgware.' Just a little age tanning down the spine and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Zustand: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original illustrated blue and black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered scarlet back and front, colour illustrated lining papers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains colour frontispiece, 286 pp with splendid monochrome illustrations throughout by the author. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams. Very Good condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with age tanning of the paper down the spine, not price clipped, 13s 6d. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Zustand: Near Fine. Hard back binding in publisher's original illustrated blue and brown cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered scarlet back and front, colour illustrated lining papers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains colour frontispiece, 256 pp with splendid monochrome illustrations throughout by the author. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams. Fine condition book, in very near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, 13s 6d. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Zustand: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original sky blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered magenta back and front, colour illustrated lining papers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains colour frontispiece, 320 pp with splendid monochrome illustrations throughout by the author. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams and SIGNED by him to the half-title page 'F. J. Williams | Edgware.' Just a little age tanning down the spine and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Zustand: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original illustrated Tiffany blue and sea green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered scarlet back and front, colour illustrated lining papers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains colour frontispiece, 351 pp with splendid monochrome illustrations throughout by the author. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams. Fine condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with tanning of the paper down the spine and to the rear cover, not price clipped, 13s 6d. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original striking scarlet paper covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains frontispiece, (xiv), 337 pp with maps. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, $39.00. Customs duty applies for orders shipped into the EU from outside the EU, Delivered Duty Paid (DDP), our shipping price includes DDP. Member of the P.B.F.A. RAILWAYS & LOCOMOTIVES.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Complete Official Engineering Blueprint Portfolio. Oblong Folio (Folder: 350 x 240 mm; Plans unfold to 850 x 350 mm). Title page, followed by a complete sequence of 31 large, fold-out Diazo print (whiteprint) engineering schematics numbered N.9619/1 to N.9619/31. Housed in the original publisher's brown soft-cover folder. Binding remains structurally sound and intact, holding all 31 fold-out plans securely. The Diazo prints and text pages are in very good, clean condition throughout, exhibiting a little age-toning to the plans. An exceptional, clean, and remarkably complete architectural survival. The Victoria Line stands as one of the greatest feats of mid-twentieth-century British civil engineering, representing the first completely new subterranean tube line built across central London in over fifty years. Although a high-speed line linking the north-east to the south-west was originally proposed in 1948, parliamentary approval and funding stalls delayed the final go-ahead until 1962, with construction taking place throughout the 1960s. This ultra-scarce internal portfolio provides a massive, highly detailed 88-feet-to-1-inch surveyor's view of the line, matching the underground paths precisely against the surface street architecture above. This specific issue features vital engineering updates and amendments running up to 1968, capturing the definitive "as-built" configuration of the tunnels just as the line prepared to open its first stages between 1968 and 1972. Complete sequences of these large internal LTB whiteprints are extremely rare and highly prized by historians of London topography, civil engineering, and mid-century industrial design.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original grey cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered dark green back and front, colour illustrated lining papers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains colour frontispiece, 288 pp with splendid monochrome illustrations throughout by the author. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams and SIGNED by him to the half-title page 'F. J. Williams | Edgware.' Just a little age tanning down the spine and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, with strip of tape from mount adhering to the blank second leaf of the bifolium. Folded once. The recipient ('Dear Sir') is not named. Signed 'J. Scott. Russell'. Apparently responding to a request for an autograph from an invalid, he begins by stating that he is 'sorry to hear' of the recipient's 'prolonged suffering', but that he is 'glad to learn that you occupy your inforced in [sic] thinking more about others than about yourself'. He ends by expressing pleasure in complying with the recipient's request.…

12mo, 1 p. Mourning border. Nine lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on worn and lightly-aged paper. Asks if Clarke knows 'Dutch, or Danish or both enough - to give us in the Christmas number of the Athenaeum a column upon each or one or either of those countries under a general group of "Literature of Foreign Countries in 1869"?' Requests an answer by return.…

Zustand: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains portrait frontispiece, (viii), 338 pp. Sir William Willcocks was an irrigation engineer who proposed and built the first Aswan Dam, the scale of which had never been attempted previously. He later undertook other major irrigation projects in South Africa and in Arab regions of the dying Ottoman Empire. Top front corner squashed, light foxing to the closed text block edges and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. NORTH AFRICA [Egypt]. …

Jerrold, Manby and Rennie all have entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On bifolium of grey paper. In good condition, lightly aged, with trace of tape from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded twice. Jerrold has tipped in a newspaper cutting of a letter by him to the editor of the Daily News at the head of the first page, proposing 'A STATUE TO SIR JOHN RENNIE'. He states that a thought has stuck him 'more than once while approaching London-bridge from the great railway station situated on the Surrey-side of it', and suggests a place where it should be placed, considering that 'the suggestion has only to be made public to command the support of a powerful committee'. In the autograph letter to Manby, signed 'W Blanchard Jerrold', he explains that he published the letter the previous Friday, and that he is 'induced to think the suggestion it contains would meet with extensive support if backed by a powerful committee.' He offers to act, 'with pleasure', 'in the capacity of Hon: Sec:'. He thinks it is a cause in which Manby 'will & can do good service', and 'Three or four good professional names, including your own, to head the committee, would promote the object in view, essentially.' He ends by asking if he can be favoured 'with an early word'. It does not appear that the memorial was ever erected.…

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Letterhead in black and red ink. In fair condition, aged and worn, with creasing at head. A sensitive letter of condolence, beginning: 'Dear Willy | I was so shocked to hear on Thursday of the great loss you have sustained, and I hesitated to write to you, for letters of condolence are such empty useless things. But on the other hand I dont want you to suppose that I feel indifferent to anything that touches you so closely & deeply. We have been such sympathetic friends for so long, that tho I did not know your father, he too seemed almost like an old friend.' The letter concludes with a rumination on mortality, Dredge finding sympathy 'not wholly useless but [] a poor thing in the presence of death'. Note: This letter derives from a collection of letters of condolence to the Forbes family on the death of William Forbes, father of Stanhope Forbes, founder of the Newlyn School of Art whose brother was "William".…

8vo: 13 pp. Stitched. In original cream printed wraps. On aged, spotted paper, in heavily worn wraps. Facsimile of handwriting at head of front wrap reads 'With the Author's Compliments'. Two diagrams in text. Spirited discussion of such questions as 'Is a horse-power really a horse's power?' 'I was surprised and pleased the other day to find in Marseilles that the man directing the electric tram-cars in that city corresponding to the driver of the old horse-car, sometimes called in America the motorneer, is called the wattman, and I have since learnt that this term is very general in France.' No copy in the British Library: COPAC only lists copies at the London School of Economics and University of London.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged, with small strip of discoloration at head of first page and traces of previous mount on discoloured blank reverse of second leaf. He thanks Lanyon for his 'renewed kindness' durimg his 'recent visit to Belfast', and extends an invitation to 'a party of a few friends we are about to have on the 5th of May'. With respect to Lanyon's visit, 'and to the earlier call I hope you will make on my wife (who is generally not in from her drive till 5.0)', he makes him a street plan (on lower part of second page). He is also enclosing '5 cards for the Goldsmith's Ball', in the hope that he will be able to 'take friends with you in sufficient number to prevent your being alone in an unknown City Hall.' Postscript: 'My conscience compels me to return the stolen watch key'. …

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original grey cloth covers, gilt and maroon title and author block lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8'' x 5¼''. Between 1928 and 1932 Hamilton was the principal engineer of a British-built strategic road across Iraqi Kurdistan, which ran from Erbil, through Rawandiz, to the Iranian border near modern day Piranshahr. The road became known as the Hamilton Road. Although Hamilton hoped the road would unite the peoples of the region, it has been fought over many times. He describes in detail the building of the road in this 1937 book. Contains 331 pp + 28 monochrome archive photographs throughout + 2 folding maps to the rear (Iraq and the Road through Kurdistan, and The Rowanduz Road). End papers cracked and repaired, rubbing of the cloth across the spine ends, corners and edges of the cloth worn through to the boards, two small repaired tears to the edge of the first map, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. IRAQ.…

In very good condition, on one side each of two skins of vellum. Robinson's signature and seal in red wax at the foot of the attached skins, and the customary embossed tax stamps on both. Ruled borders in red ink. Docketed on reverse of first skin. The document begins: 'To all to whom these Presents shall come. Moncure Robinson of the City of Philadelphia in the United States of America and now residing in Bond Street in the County of Middlesex in Great Britain Esquire sends Greeting'. The document next discusses 'a Deed Poll or Letter of Attorney under the Common Seal of "The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad company" duly incorporated by that name in the said United States which deed poll or letter of Attorney is also signed by Elihu Chauncey Esquire the President of the said Company and attested by Richard Fenn Lardner their Treasurer and bears date the nineteenth day of November One thousand eight hundred and thirty six'. The document appoints 'Thomson Hankey the elder John Alexander Hankey and Thomson Hankey the younger of Mincing Lane in the City of London Merchants' as the company's agents. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company is considered Robinson's greatest achievement. From the Hankey banking archive.…

12mo, 10 + 67 pp. In original purple morroco binding, with 'PRESENTED TO | T. E. HARRISON, ESQ., | VICE-PRESIDENT.' stamped on the front cover in gilt. A tight copy, in fair condition, on aged paper, with front endpapers sprung, and in a worn binding. Vignette woodcut on title-page, showing man working beside track as locomotive goes past. The names of the Institute's officers (including Harrison as one of the eight Vice-Presidents) are on p.3, p.4 carries a notice, and pp.5-10 the thirty-four 'Rules, &c.' Rule 2 reads: 'The object of the Institute is to promote the diffusion of scientific, useful, and general knowledge, amongst the officers, clerks, and other servants of the Company, by means of a library, reading room (which shall be supplied with newspapers and periodicals), lectures, and classes.' The catalogue is paginated 1-67, and lists around 3800 titles in alphabetical order, from 'Abbotsford and Newstead' by Irving, to 'Zoe's Brand, 3 vols.' Harrison, who had a home at Whitburn, worked with Robert Stephenson on the High Level Bridge at Newcastle, and when Stephenson retired as railway engineer, took over as engineer-in-chief of the York-Newcastle-Berwick line. Excessively scarce: no copy in the British Library or on WorldCat, and the only copy on COPAC at York Minster.…